orbital decay

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now." -Alan Watts "They do not see what lies ahead, when Sun has faded and Moon is dead." -J.R.R. Tolkien One of the most amazing facts about the Universe is that, despite only having spent a few hundred years studying the fundamental constituents and forces of what makes us up, humanity has been able to accurately figure out just what all this actually is. Image credit: ESO / S. Brunier. The laws of nature are almost completely understood in a few, very important senses. We know that our Universe is about…