Originally Posted by
sycld
Yes, we are in agreement.
After the sun expands into a supergiant, it will consume will convert its mass finally into carbon. Its outer layers will destabalize and slowly diffuse outward into space until all that is left is a hot core, a white dwarf composed of electron degenerate gas, which will slowly fade into a cold, black cinder over the course of billions of years. It will NOT go supernova as it hasn't enough mass.
So okay my analogy was wrong. We are more like the sun, having already experienced our red giant and destabalization phases. We are undergoing the white dwarf phase, slowly expending the heat generated by the end of our life, but a passing star is going to swallow us up and suddenly arrest this slow cooling.
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