What will the world look like in the next 250 billion years?

Answer 1

Not to rain on all these elucidated answers here - but 250B years is a long time. Not only will the earth have long since been swallowed by the sun, which will have evaporated and decayed away into nothing, if not apsorbed by a passing supergiant star or black hole, but most likely all the stars in our galaxy will have died away, and the galaxy with it. In fact, the Andromeda Galaxy will have long since merged with the Milky Way, causing an unstable irregular galaxy that will die out with a whimper some 20B years from now. Probably, in 250B years, the entire universe will have died out as well, re-cycling into a new universe through another big-crunch, big-bang cycle, or merging with another parallel universe producing an unstable physical dimension incapable of supporting life as we know it. Even diamonds won't survive this long...

Save your charcoal for the marshmallows.

Answer 2

Honestly, the Earth will be a large cloud of cold dark space dust stretching across several light years. The sun will go nova in about 5 Billion years, vaporizing Earth and blasting it and the other planets into a "planetary nebula" which will continue to expand and cool for all eternity, in all probability. However, it may merge with other space debris and re-contract into several new star systems to repeat the process several more times before ending up finally as I descibed above. In fact, all elements on Earth (including those in your own body) that are heavier than Lithium were once manufactured in and resided in the centers of previous stars.

Answer 3

UROQ has pretty much the right answer, except for mentioning the Andromeda galaxy merging with the milky way. The milky way is our galaxy.

According to scientific theory, our star (the sun) is about 5 billion years old, and will live for about another 5 billion. Because of its size, or lack of, it will die a boring death whereby it will expand out past Mars (yes, that means the Earth is long gone), then shrink and cool.

After that, we'll be absorbed into something. Who knows?!

Answer 4

Earth will be long gone in 250 billion years as our sun will have run out of energy to continue burning.

Anyway, long before that could happen, we're most likely going to be hit by an asteroid or comet that will kill everything but the roaches.

Answer 5

The earth will not exist 250 billion years from now. It will be long gone, having been sucked up by a black hole, or destroyed by any one of a myriad of other fates, including those associated with merging galaxies.

Answer 6

since it will burn up in about 5 billion, wont look like much in 250 billion, if you mean world being the earth.

Answer 7

It will be long gone by then. The sun is going to come to an end in about another 2 billion years and us along with it. So we will look like space dust - to answer your question.

Answer 8

Several stars will burn out
so the Earth will return to being null and void
the Universe will be Dark

all the way throughout the Galaxies to the quasars and beyond. There will be utter darkness

Read "The Final Question" by Isaac Asimov______

Answer 9

Probably barren and lifeless. Our sun will had expanded since it is quite old by then. When our sun gets bigger, of course, earth will be hot and boiling, extinguishing any life form. Or, our sun would had already expanded and now is a little white dwarf, as it dies leaving earth cold and inhabitable.

Answer 10

Like it did when it was first made by God. By that time the earth will be remade after it is destroyed. Look in the bible it will tell you all about it.