A brief dip into the heat death of the universe

Setting: Modern Earth; technology no more advanced that what's reasonable within the next thirty years.

Premise: A prehistoric (and broken) alien device is discovered on Earth, and researchers determine that it was built to allow either time travel or teleportation (or both).

Scientists reverse engineer the device to create a crude (and functional) version. They send objects through, and are able to retrieve them.

Technicals: The human-built version of the device actually sends objects far into future (ie, 1 X 10 Googols to the Googolth power years), far far past the heat death of the universe. They appear in empty (inter-galactic) space, and displace any atoms which may be present.

Question: What effects/forces would these objects experience in the dead universe, and what effect would their sudden presence have on a universe which has long since reached a stable/maximum entropy?

More specifically, would an astronaut in a modern space suit be able to survive in such an environment for more than a few seconds?

posted almost 9 years ago

Liesmith‭

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