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Life Faces Cosmic Energy Crisis

MAY 01, 2007
Physics Today
ScienceNow : Looking at the long, long, long term, the cosmos isn’t shaping up well for sentient beings or any other living things. Hundreds of billions of years from now, the universe will start to run short of radiant energy--better known as heat--one of the necessities for life. However, two theoretical physicists have concluded there will be a small consolation: In the race to nothingness, matter will avoid finishing first.
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