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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 18 January 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Scientific projections regarding the far future Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see List of numbers and List of years. Artist's concept of the Earth 5–7.5 billion years from now, when the Sun has become a red giant While the ...
However, C 4 carbon fixation can continue at much lower concentrations, down to above 10 parts per million; thus, plants using C 4 photosynthesis may be able to survive for at least 0.8 billion years and possibly as long as 1.2 billion years from now, after which rising temperatures will make the biosphere unsustainable.
However, as the Sun grows gradually hotter (over millions of years), Earth may become too hot for life as early as one billion years from now. [212] [213] [214] 1.3 billion Various It is estimated that all eukaryotic life will die out due to carbon dioxide starvation. Only prokaryotes will remain. [211] 7.59 billion David Powell
A new study says complex life began 1.5 billion years earlier, influenced by ancient volcanic activity, reshaping our understanding of life's timeline on Earth.
The book is a combination of non-fiction discussions based on science about what the future might look like, interspersed with more imaginative guesses about what life will look like thousands, and millions of years in the future. [1] Eternity was published on November 25, 2008 by Palgrave Macmillan as part of the Macmillan Science series.
The universe has appeared much the same as it does now, for many billions of years. It will continue to look similar for many more billions of years into the future. The galactic disk of the Milky Way is estimated to have been formed 8.8 ± 1.7 billion years ago but only the age of the Sun, 4.567 billion years, is known precisely. [82]
Known affectionately to scientists as the "boring billion," there was a seemingly endless period in the world's history when the length of a day stayed put. The time when a day on Earth was just ...
The book also illustrates Earth's eventual fate by compressing its full 12 billion-year history into 12 hours on a clock, with the first life appearing at 1:00 am, the first animals and plants appearing at 4:00 am, and the present day being 4:29.59 am. The Earth is destroyed by the Sun at "high noon", though animals and plants come to an end by ...