tHe’s the way the world ends: not with bangs, but… rounded? According to my favorite Wikipedia wormhole, it is the number of possible ways our universe can bite about 100 quin desirion (give or take several losses) into a bullet a few years from now. It’s just one.

To me, Wikipedia looks harmless A distant future timeline Page (along with its existentially miserable nature, The ultimate fate of the universe) The perfect encapsulation of the built-in dissonance of the Internet is monolithic in meaning, but in its presentation it is very pedestrian. It provides a heart-warming snapshot of scientific theory wrapped in boring color-coded spreadsheets. Catalogs the theoretical extinction of Y chromosomes five million years later.

Every year human history has its own dedicated Wikipedia page, 719BC (When Zhou Huan Wang clearly didn’t happen much other than becoming the ruler of China). Although nature has younger years than others, these pages generally provide useful TLs of major world events, famous births and deaths, astronomical phenomena.

However, if you scroll through the 2020s, you will see that 2026, 2027, 2028 and more continue. The cleverly dull Wikipedia interface remains unchanged in the cedees of recorded history Speculative history.

It is possible to surf Wikipedia in the very distant future. Each page provides the best guesses of the current year, ten years, century, or the millennium may have. In 2029, “Digital Time Capsule “Message from Earth” reaches the destination of Earth’s Gliese 581c.” In 2085, “Queen Elizabeth II’s “Secret” letter will be opened in Sydney.” In 2140, “It is expected that all of the approximately 21 million Bitcoins will be mined.”

It was a troubling combination of asteroid near misses, severe climate catastrophes, strange geopolitics, until around the 24th century, when he had the same surname in 2531, a “negative bear-spot paradox” in 2353. is. “John Cage’s organ’s performance in 639 will be as slow as possible,” he said in 2640.

From there, all roads lead to a timeline of the distant future. Here we see the explosive red hyper-illusions that appear in the daytime sky, the addition of daily moments on Earth, planetary collisions, ocean evaporation, space-time singularities, pyramidal erosion, Mars terra formation, black holes, Boltzmann’s You can learn about brain erosion of the brain. The final ending ext of JavaScript (time of death: 275,760 September 13th).

Truly adventurous people can delve deeper into the ultimate fate of the universe, which reads like a tasting menu to completely disappear. Is it a big freeze, a big crunch, a big bounce, a big rift, or actually a big round thing?

Wikipedia, like other encyclopedias, was not designed to induce emotions, but the pure spiritual weight of the information made me feel a bit of awe-inspiring. It may not be possible. When I read these completely benign “Astro Engineering Project” and “Femtosecond Laser Etched Nanostructures”, I feel my little human brain stabbing against the limits of that imagination You can do it.

Some people have explained that they are in a small mood in honor, looking up at the stars on a sunny night. Scrolling through these Wikipedia pages and reading history before it happens, I get the same feeling. My little desk, my little keyboard is doing my little work, and my head is in the world where future archaeologists identify the “urban strata” of fossilized coastal cities I’m trying to wrap it around. Next, close all browser tabs and compete for Pilates.