Timeline of the far future

<p>While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline. These fields include <a href="/facts/Astrophysics/krFPRWLA">astrophysics</a>, which studies how <a href="/facts/Planet/rbPjE6Bx">planets</a> and <a href="/facts/Star/euBFuo07">stars</a> form, interact and die; <a href="/facts/Particle_physics/YgIuyj2t">particle physics</a>, which has revealed how matter behaves at the smallest scales; <a href="/facts/Evolutionary_biology/8tBoG55U">evolutionary biology</a>, which studies how life evolves over time; <a href="/facts/Plate_tectonics/RtRG5lY4">plate tectonics</a>, which shows how continents shift over millennia; and <a href="/facts/Sociology/d2Fd0N87">sociology</a>, which examines how human societies and cultures evolve.
</p><p>These timelines begin at the start of the 4th millennium in 3001 CE, and continue until the furthest and most remote reaches of future time. They include alternative future events that address unresolved scientific questions, such as whether <a href="/facts/Human_extinction/AKGd4JlS">humans will become extinct</a>, whether the Earth survives when the Sun expands to become a <a href="/facts/Red_giant/lla6Bsvy">red giant</a> and whether <a href="/facts/Proton_decay/Awg3sEzD">proton decay</a> will be the eventual end of all matter in the universe.
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Timeline of the far future