Tim Urban

“No. No, you'd have to pack the entire observable universe to the brim with ribbon and that would get you nowhere close. You'd have to have packs and the final number I came to is 1.4 billion observable universes with this this ribbon to have by the end of the last universe to get to the end of the ribbon that's the end of the black hole era.”

“the last stars will be born around 100 trillion years from now and then like 20 trillion years later, the last stars are gone and we're in the degenerate era and there's just nothing except for little white dwarfs and then that ends and all that's left is black holes.”

“So I get upset about this. This is the kind of thing that when I think about then I'm like in bed and I literally can't sleep and I'm tossing and turning and the next day my wife is like why are you so tired?”

“It's 10 to the 106 years. Okay. So what how do you what does that mean? How do you put that into context?”

“I was just writing about the black hole era. Do you know what that is?”