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{{short description|Scientific projections regarding the far future}}
[[File:Red Giant Earth warm.jpg|thumb|274x274px|alt= A dark gray and red sphere representing the Earth lies against a black background to the right of an orange circular object representing the Sun| Artist's idea of the [[Earth]] several billion years from now, when the [[Sun]] is a [[red giant]].]]

(contracted; show full)]-generated Big Bang to produce a new universe identical to our own. This would only happen if every new universe contained at least the same number of subatomic particles and obeyed laws of physics within [[String theory landscape|the landscape]] predicted by [[string theory]].<ref>{{cite journal|author=[[Michael R. Douglas|M. Douglas]]|title=The statistics of string / M theory vacua|journal=JHEP|volume=0305|issue=46|date=21 March 2003|page=046|doi=10.1088/1126-6708/2003/05/046|arxiv=hep-th/0303194|
bibcode=2003JHEP...05..046D|s2cid=650509}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=S. Ashok|author2=M. Douglas|title=Counting flux vacua|journal=JHEP|volume=0401|issue=60|date=2004|page=060|doi=10.1088/1126-6708/2004/01/060|arxiv=hep-th/0307049|bibcode=2004JHEP...01..060A|s2cid=1969475}}</ref>
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==Humanity==

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! scope="col" | [[File:Key.svg|12px]]
! scope="col" | Years from now
! scope="col" | Event
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| [[File:Aiga toiletsq men.svg|16px|alt=technology and culture|Technology and culture]]
| 10,000
| This could be the longest technological civilization could last, according to [[Frank Drake]]'s original formulation of the [[Drake equation]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Cameron|last2=Davies|first2=Evan T.|title=Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization|date=2012|publisher=Springer|page=258}}{{ISBN missing}}</ref>
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| style="background: #CEFF00;" | [[File:Butterfly icon (Noun Project).svg|16px|alt=Biology|Biology]]
| 10,000
| If human beings [[panmixia|choose spouses and other sex partners at random]], then [[human genetic variation]] will no longer be related to what part of the planet people are from. The [[effective population size]] will equal the actual population size.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Klein|first1=Jan|last2=Takahata|first2=Naoyuki|title=Where Do We Come From?: The Molecular Evidence for Human Descent|url=https://archive.org/details/wheredowecomefro0000klei|date=2002|publisher=Springer|page=[https://archive.org/details/wheredowecomefro0000klei/page/395 395]|isbn=9783540425649}}{{ISBN missing}}</ref>
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| style="background: #e0ffff;" | [[File:Pi-symbol.svg|16px|alt=Mathematics|Mathematics]]
| 10,000
|Humanity has a 95% probability of [[Human extinction|being extinct]] by this date, according to [[Brandon Carter]]'s formulation of the controversial [[Doomsday argument]], which argues that half of the humans who will ever have lived have probably already been born.<ref name="brandon"/>
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| 100 million
| This is the longest technological civilization could last, according to [[Frank Drake]]'s original formulation of the [[Drake equation]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bignami|first1=Giovanni F.|last2=Sommariva|first2=Andrea|title=A Scenario for Interstellar Exploration and Its Financing|url=https://archive.org/details/scenarioforinter00bign|url-access=limited|date=2013|publisher=Springer|page=[https://archive.org/details/scenarioforinter00bign/page/n29 23]|bibcode=2013sief.book.....B
|isbn=9788847053373}}{{ISBN missing}}</ref>
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| style="background: lavender;" | [[File:Five Pointed Star Solid.svg|16px|alt=Astronomy and astrophysics|Astronomy and astrophysics]]
| 1 billion
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! scope="col" | Date or years from now
! scope="col" | Event
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| [[File:Aiga toiletsq men.svg|16px|alt=technology and culture|Technology and culture]]
|3015 CE
|In 2015, [[Jonathon Keats]] put a camera in the [[ASU Art Museum]] and set it to finish its [[exposure time]] in 3015.  Keats was trying to make history's slowest photograph.<ref>{{cite web |title=This Camera Will Capture a 1,000-Year Exposure That Ends in 3015 for History's Slowest Photo 
|date=5 March 2015 |url=http://petapixel.com/2015/03/05/this-camera-will-capture-a-1000-year-exposure-that-ends-in-3015-for-historys-slowest-photo/ |publisher=PetaPixel |accessdate=2015-12-14}}</ref>
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| [[File:Aiga toiletsq men.svg|16px|alt=technology and culture|Technology and culture]]
| 10,000
(contracted; show full)ft on the [[Moon]] will be erased by [[space weathering]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Apollo 11 – First Footprint on the Moon|url=http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/home/F_Apollo_11.html|website=Student Features|publisher=NASA}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Meadows|first=A. J.|title=The Future of the Universe|url=https://archive.org/details/futureuniverse00mead_163|url-access=limited|date=2007|publisher=Springer|pages=[https://archive.org/details/futureuniverse00mead_163/page/n87 81]–83
|isbn=9781852339463}}{{ISBN missing}}</ref> (The Moon [[atmosphere of the Moon|does not have wind and rain]] the way Earth does, so erosion takes longer.)
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| style="background: #f0dc82;" | [[File:Noun project 528.svg|16px|alt=Geology and planetary science|Geology and planetary science]]
| 7.2 million
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<ref name="galaxy">
{{cite journal | title = Cosmology with Hypervelocity Stars | author = Loeb, Abraham | journal = Harvard University | date = 2011 | arxiv = 1102.0007 |bibcode= 2011JCAP...04..023L|doi=10.1088/1475-7516/2011/04/023 | volume=2011 | issue = 4 | page=023| s2cid = 118750775 }}
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{{cite book | last = Chown | first = Marcus | title = Afterglow of Creation | url = https://archive.org/details/afterglowofcreat00chow | url-access = registration | publisher = University Science Books | date = 1996 | page = [https://archive.org/details/afterglowofcreat00chow/page/210 210]| isbn = 9780935702408 }}{{ISBN missing}}
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<ref name="messier">
{{cite web | title = The Local Group of Galaxies | url = http://messier.seds.org/more/local.html | publisher = Students for the Exploration and Development of Space | website = University of Arizona | accessdate =2 October 2009
}}
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<ref name=loeb_2016>{{cite journal |last1=Loeb |first1=Abraham |year=2016 |last2=Batista |first2=Rafael |last3=Sloan |first3=W. |title=Relative Likelihood for Life as a Function of Cosmic Time |journal=Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |volume=2016 |issue=8 |pages=040 | arxiv = 1606.08448 |doi=10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/040|bibcode=2016JCAP...08..040L |s2cid=118489638 }}</ref>
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