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[[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]].]]

The ultimate fate of our universe may be the [[heat death of the universe]] or the [[big rip]]. Before that happens, it is possible to predict that the following will happen.

Some types of [[science]] can say what could happen far into the future.<ref>{{cite book| author= Rescher, Nicholas|  title = Predicting the future: An introduction to the theory of forecasting| date = 1998| publisher = State University of New York Press| isbn = 978-0791435533}}</ref> Before we go further, it is worth noting that our [[local group|local group of galaxies]] are bound by gravitation, and its changes (contracted; show full)

<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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