[ertgbnm]

Seems like the problem should be pretty easy to figure out. Just need to wait ~5 gigayears and see which model is right. I'm personally hoping for deceleration so that we have more total visitable volume.

I'll set a reminder to check back at that time to see who was right.

[shadowgovt]

Oh, I'm not going to care about visitable volume.

With 5 gigayears to work with I'm going to move a few star systems over, break down all the matter orbiting the star into a Dyson sphere made of computronium, and simulate visiting any world I could possibly ever want to.

[qingcharles]

This is one reason to assume we'll never meet any aliens. They're just simulating whatever all day long in their Dyson Goonspheres.

[mabster]

I just pictured someone getting a message to check which model was right from an ancestor 20 giga generations ago!

[channeleaton]

!remindme 20,000,000,000 years