Doomsday Bollocks
By John Doe
The World is coming to an End !! Borrow ALL the money you can. Spend lavishly, and live a Luxurious life fully knowing that you never have to repay the Bank, FInance Companies or Ah Loong’s !!
The visible universe has a horizon at about 14 billion light years and the most distant galaxies seen by the Hubble Space Telescope are nearly at this limit at about 12-13 billion light years. This is about 15 – 20 miles away from the Milky Way ‘penny’ and is the farthest we can ever see. That’s about the distance of KL to Kajang, or twice the length of the Penang Bridge. (Mind you, the reference is that the entire Milky Way is the size of a ten cent coin)
I’d like to see Sunday School Teachers teach the children that Pulsars, Quasars, SuperNovas, Red Giants and Dwarf Stars NEVER existing, because all of them, are all older than 6,500 years old. In fact, the Blackhole at the very centre of the Milky Way should also not exist, because it is 26,000 light-years away. And that is 20,000 years “too old”. For the record, the nearest star, “Proxima Centauri”, from the Alpha Centauri System, is 4.2 light-years away. Meaning, that if this star blow up today, we will see it only 4.2 years later.
http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2011/03/07/scientists-are-sounding-the-alarm-the-mysterious-cracks-appear-across-the-planet/
As it exhausts the helium in the core, the sun desperately staves off the inevitable by resorting again to those reserves in its outer layers. Again it expands. This time it grows so large that its outer edge is only weakly gravitationally bound to the core, barely holding itself together anymore. After another 100 million years, things will really start falling apart. The Sun’s outer layers, freed from the gravitational clutches of the core, will waft away. Over the course of about 10,000 years, these layers will spread out into space as an enormous sphere of gas lit up by the now naked hot core. These layers constitute a ‘planetary nebula’, so called because in a small telescope the gas cloud looks a bit like the disc of a planet. The hot core is now a ‘white dwarf’, a stellar cinder. As a white dwarf, the ex-Sun will glow white-hot for near a very long time.
Alas, there will be no dramatic explosions to entertain our distant descendants: the Sun, modest in life, is subdued in death. After the planetary nebula fades, there is no nuclear fusion at all, just a lump of hot soot and some happy memories. The Sun aka RA, aka Great Fire-Chariot in the sky, will well and truly be deceased.