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:To elaborate further, no unit exists that has any practical physical application can be chosen that meaningfully changes the representation of the number. The integer and stacked exponents for the time value would not noticeably change within any reasonable rounding error no matter what unit is chosen. For example (and adding to Firefangledfeathers explanation above), there are an estimated 10^97 elementary particles in the entire universe. So even dividing (or multiplying) by that massive number -- perhaps among the largest known physical quantities -- only subtracts (or adds) 97 zeroes from 100 septillion. The units really don't matter. ] (]) 22:46, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
:To elaborate further, no unit exists that has any practical physical application can be chosen that meaningfully changes the representation of the number. The integer and stacked exponents for the time value would not noticeably change within any reasonable rounding error no matter what unit is chosen. For example (and adding to Firefangledfeathers explanation above), there are an estimated 10^97 elementary particles in the entire universe. So even dividing (or multiplying) by that massive number -- perhaps among the largest known physical quantities -- only subtracts (or adds) 97 zeroes from 100 septillion. The units really don't matter. ] (]) 22:46, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
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The icon used for technology- and culture-relaed items is much taller than the other icons. Which icon should replace it for aesthetic purposes? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:20, 8 July 2021 (UTC)
Move the 2nd & 3rd paragraph in the leading section to page body
It looks like the two paragraphs in the leading section "All projections of the future of Earth ... and star systems from galaxies." "Physicists expect that matter... the formation of Boltzmann brains." apply to only predictions around the astrophysics & particle physics domain. Shall we move it to the "Earth, the Solar System and the universe" section? --173.75.31.249 (talk) 22:44, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Guinness lease
@Artem.G: re: recent revert... I agree it would be far more concerning to humanity thousands of years hence to go extinct than to observe a change or renewal of one building's tenants (assuming it didn't happen long prior of course).
But that isn't really the criterion by which we should consider WP:UNDUE attributes, since unlike historical events all entries on this page are proposed or hypothetical, so their theoretical import at that future time is moot (although some are more certain than others). Instead, this page is really a collation of sources organised by their assertions about the far future (just as most of the rest of Misplaced Pages isn't presenting truth about the past and present, but rather presenting other people's claims about such as documented in reliable sources). As an example -- presuming that you were referring to the next row down when you mentioned extinction, note the verbiage "formulation of the controversial argument"; this row is about a claim, not an event (since Misplaced Pages is not a crystal ball and thus can know nothing about human extinction as fact).
Anyway, I'm not too insistent on the Guinness thing staying in; it would have fit better in an article about the pertinent century or millennium, but those redirect here now as described above. I just thought it was an interesting contrast to offer readers, since mundane things are eternal even if leases or species aren't. Arlo James Barnes07:19, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
I agree with you that it can be interesting, but there is so little chance that any company of our current time will be working in 10,000 years from now, that this Guinness lease seems to be just marketing, not a real thing that can possible happen in so distant future. Maybe it can be placed into WP:Unusual articles, if there is an article about a lease itself. Artem.G (talk) 07:55, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
Digits
"Although listed in years for convenience, the numbers beyond this point are so vast that their digits would remain unchanged regardless of which conventional units they were listed in, be they nanoseconds or star lifespans."
A number as large as those with that footnote is negligibly affected by becoming 10 billion times smaller. The smallest such number in the article would go from 1 followed by 100 septillion zeroes to 1 followed by (100 septillion - 10) zeroes. Firefangledfeathers04:51, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
To elaborate further, no unit exists that has any practical physical application can be chosen that meaningfully changes the representation of the number. The integer and stacked exponents for the time value would not noticeably change within any reasonable rounding error no matter what unit is chosen. For example (and adding to Firefangledfeathers explanation above), there are an estimated 10^97 elementary particles in the entire universe. So even dividing (or multiplying) by that massive number -- perhaps among the largest known physical quantities -- only subtracts (or adds) 97 zeroes from 100 septillion. The units really don't matter. Rsbaker0 (talk) 22:46, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
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