> Under many cosmological theories, the integers under 2^63 are adequate to cover the entire expected lifetime of the universe; in this case no extensions will be necessary.
Indeed. As they say, eternity is very long, especially towards the end. For proof, check out this video that explains how eventually even protons will give out and evaporate.
The thing that blew my mind: when things started getting very weird, and I was thinking "ok but we're roughly at the end now", I checked the indicator. It was only half-way. It is a 30 minute video. And the time speeds up logarithmically.
AFAIK, the most accepted theory is that the Universe will allow for useful computation forever. Always get slower, but adding up to an unbounded amount of it.
Experienced this first hand on an embedded device with an RTOS with a 5ms tick. The thing was locking up every 124 days (2^31 ticks). That’s long enough where it had to happen 2-3 times before someone put 2 and 2 together.
> As discussed in 2.4.1, the end of the universe is predicted to occur well before the year 10 * 30. However, if there is one single lesson to be learned from the current Y2K problems, it is that specifications and conventions have a way of out living their expected environment. Therefore we feel it is imperative to completely solve the date representation problem once and for all.
The thing that blew my mind: when things started getting very weird, and I was thinking "ok but we're roughly at the end now", I checked the indicator. It was only half-way. It is a 30 minute video. And the time speeds up logarithmically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA