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My HN reader displays this topic as "Universe expected to decay in 10 years, much sooner than previously thought".

And it's not wrong, that _is_ much sooner than previously thought!

Considering 10^1100 years was the previously postulated time to decay then, assuming the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy is correct in their 10^78 years calculation, 10 years is still significantly closer to the correct date.

If these trends continue.... Ayyyy

We are doooooomed!

Looking forward to Universe II Electric Boogaloo

What’s it called when the exponent is off by an order of magnitude, ha..

OOM off by one OOM is 10^10, so its a factor of 10 billion.

Yes, but I want a new term that emphasizes how far off it is. Order of magnitude changes are hugely impactful in all areas of life. OOM changes in the OOM is probably inconceivable to the human mind.

Good time to take out a 30-year mortgage.

> My HN reader [...]

What reader do you use? I've only ever used vanilla HN.

Hews 2 on Android. I have a Pixel 6. Generally I'm satisfied with Hews 2, it just rendered this particular title in a funny way.

I use harmonic

Interesting, I'm on harmonic too but the text is fine.

Sorry for the duplicate comment. Seems harmonic doesn't like when you have poor cell connection.

Interesting, I'm in harmonic too but the text is fine.

I mean, it's already decaying. So it will be decaying in 10 years too.

It's really a question of when it will stop decaying.

It used to be decaying. It's still decaying, but it used to, too.

The Universe asked me, "Guess what? I'm decaying"

I said, "Dude, you've gotta give me time to guess"

If there is nobody left to observe when it stops decaying, will it ever stop decaying?

Complete/Finish might be clearer.

There go my vacations! :)

Firefox displays 10^78 with boxes for superscript. Chrome doesn't have any problem.

It could either be your fonts and/or your particular platform. I've seen this sort of thing before elsewhere, I think on Windows with certain fonts IIRC. I opened it on Firefox 138.0.1 on aarch64 for mac and there weren't any artifacts.

Windows has limited font substitution support, that's probably why.

I'm on Firefox -- no problems. Both on Android and Linux.

Firefox on Android mobile displays it fine. Probably an OS level font issue.

Displayed just fine in Brave as well, for the curious.

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