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A Dream that Things Might be Otherwise: The past and future worlds of Samantha Rees Natural science produces ancestral statements, such as, for example, that the universe is roughly 13.7 billion years old, that the earth formed roughly 4.5 billion year ago, that life developed on earth approximately 3.5 billion years ago, and that the earliest ancestors of the genus Homo emerged about 2 million years ago.46 Yet it is also generating an ever increasing number of ‘descendent’ statements, such as that the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda galaxy in 3 billion years, that the earth will be incinerated by the sun 4 billions years hence, that all the stars in the universe will stop shining in 100 trillion years, and that eventually, one trillion, trillion, trillion years fromnow, all matter in the cosmos will disintegrate into unbound elementary particles. Ray Braisser, Nihil Unbound, 2007