When fables of universe origins or first life forms or human origins are recited, they inevitably do so as if they were talking facts.
It is imaginary to leave God out. They live in fantasy land.
No problem. A panel of scientists cooked up this dark comedy..
" A panel of scientists at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
described the situation in 2000, and it still holds
true. Astronomers generally agree that
the sun will burn up its hydrogen fuel supply sometime
in the next 5 billion to 7 billion years. As it
does, gravity will force the sun to collapse into its core, which will ratchet up the heat on the remaining hydrogen and cause the
sun to expand into a red giant.
At this point,
the sun will swallow the Earth.
"Earth will end up in the sun, vaporizing and blending its material with that of the sun," said Iowa State University's Lee Anne Willson. "That part of the
sun then blows away into space, so one might say Earth is cremated and the
ashes are scattered into interstellar space."
By then, the sun will be hot enough to burn all its stored helium and the sun will fluctuate in size. The sun isn't quite massive enough to explode in an awesome supernova, so
it will merely collapse into a relatively cool white dwarf.
Perhaps a moot point, though, because
we'll most likely be long dead before this occurs. As the sun revs up to its red giant phase, it's getting about
10 percent brighter every billion years. At that rate, scientists estimate that all the
water on the planet will evaporate in the next billion years."
http://www.livescience.com/32879-what-happens-to-earth-when-sun-dies.html
Hoo ha.
