{"id":50,"date":"2010-03-10T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/abingdon2007\/2010\/03\/10\/rather-bad-news\/"},"modified":"2010-03-10T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T11:06:00","slug":"rather-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Rather Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10030104.jpg\" \/><br \/>We are in the middle of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.co.uk\/\">Oxfordshire Science Festival<\/a>  and the start of the Abingdon Arts Festival. The one science event I see advertised in Abingdon takes part later today. Popular science writer John Gribbin will be doing a talk called <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120429025609\/http:\/\/www.mostly-books.co.uk:80\/events.html\">The Multiverse<\/a><\/span> at the Guildhall.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10030806.jpg\" \/><br \/>But be warned, I have learned some rather bad news predicted by cosmologists from watching science programs on TV and John Gribbin will be talking Cosmology.<\/p>\n<p>In about 5 billion years the Sun will no longer be seen as a distant object that can be made to balance on the Millenium Needle.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag10\/10030702.jpg\" \/><br \/>The sun is not sufficiently big that when it runs out of fuel it will collapse into a black hole, instead the centre will collapse and the burning gas exterior will expand into a huge hot vaperous Red Giant star that will eat up the earth, including anything that remains of Abingdon. Not a trace will be left&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are in the middle of the Oxfordshire Science Festival and the start of the Abingdon Arts Festival. The one science event I see advertised in Abingdon takes part later today. Popular science writer John Gribbin will be doing a talk called The Multiverse at the Guildhall.But be warned, I have learned some rather bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}