Terrifying! This is how our Earth, the Solar System will DIE; Tech reveals when and how its death will occur
The laws of thermodynamics have made it very clear that everything in the universe will one day die. And neither us, our planet, the Sun or the solar system are an exception to it. It is very hard to imagine that the solar system, which has been here for 4.5 billion years, will one day collapse. It is a terrifying thought but according to scientists, it is inevitable. Advanced technology has been deployed and extremely expensive instruments have been used to do radioactive dating on other objects which are believed to be of the same age as the Sun. This data is then added to prediction models, a software built by techies to calculate the half-life and life expectancy of celestial objects based on its radioactivity signature. Institutions like NASA can do it at a very high accuracy. But the question that remains is how will the solar system die and when? Read on to find out.
Incidentally, the first step of the solar system's death would be the death of Earth. In the next billion years, some major changes are going to happen. The Sun is slowly brightening up. Today, it is 30% brighter than it was when it formed. This is what has allowed the habitable zone of the solar system to conveniently fall where Earth is.
But as the Sun uses up all of its hydrogen and moves to helium for nuclear fusion, the molecular weight will increase its temperature, the size of the core and the rate of Sun's energy production. As a result, the Earth will begin heating up and the water will begin to evaporate. This will mark the end of whatever life is left on the planet.
Phase two begins after that as due to increasing gravitational force of the Sun, the rocky planets will begin to get destabilized in their orbits. As a result, there is a high
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