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A human blink takes about 0.1s. And spends roughly 75 years alive.

Blink/s/min/hr/day/years= 0.1/60/60/24/365/75 = ~4*e-11 ratio of blinks to years alive

Age of universe is 14Byears

14,000,000,000 * 4*e-11 = 0.59 years.

A cosmic blink is about 7months

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Thanks that's actually an amazing perspective. Universe, after all - isn't that old if you think about it.

Especially not in relation to how old it is expected to become

That’s one possibility for the Fermi paradox. We might just be the first technological civilization in our neighborhood.

A trillion years from now this place might be packed with them (red dwarf stars, the most common type of star live about two trillion years, unlike our hotter, larger star.)

> Age of universe is 14Byears

It's age now. What will its age be when it is the relative equivalent of a 75yo human? A cosmic blink will be far longer than 7 months.

i don't think there really is such a relative equivalency. the universe according to best current understanding doesn't have anything which resembles human death to demarcate a lifetime. you could say 'heat death' but i dont think thats a strong comparison because, very much unlike human death, its a state which is approached asymptotically; the universe at heat death will look very much like the universe half way to, or even a millionth of the way to

I suppose the closest would be the point at which multicellular/intelligent life becomes impossible, or perhaps when all life becomes impossible. Stellar formation will end in about 100 trillion years, so that seems a good point.

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