By that time, I would expect us to have adopted longer integer expressions, and hence avoid the overflow problem for most applications, or perhaps as a short term solution, we could establish a new starting point for time counting. Since we'll have to add a leap second every day at the 50k year mark, we might even adopt some different time standard long before 64 bit integers become a problem.
By that time, people may not even be bothering with 128 bit integers, if they're able to power anything. Won't use solar power here, since the sun will have long since become a black dwarf, undetectable to human vision. By the 1 million year mark, (as a class III civilization) we should have been able to harness the entire energy production of the galaxy, so that may not be much of an issue. Keep finding stars that are not yet collapsed, and we can keep running our computers (and watch tv, brew tea, play video games -- wonder what apps will be best sellers then?). This is a bigger scale than even the one discussed in Asimov's Foundation series. Would be coolest if the universe restarted spontaneously, or if all the black holes (that will be the sole occupants of the universe) became wormholes into other instances... I wonder who will claim the Mayans predicted the items on this timeline... (or Nostradamus) :-) --Don On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> wrote: > Timeline of the far future - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > > Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future > > There is much here that is fascinating, but I especially thought y'all would > enjoy this: > > 292,277,024,583 years from now: At 15:30:08 UTC on 4 December > 292,277,026,596 AD, the Unix time stamp will exceed the largest value that > can be held in a signed 64-bit integer. > > Seriously, read the whole page. Excellent info. > > Scott > -- > Sent from my iPad > Contact info at http://granneman.tel -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
