A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics by three researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands has dramatically
You won’t get any time off though, and will still have to go into work.
“So the ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time,”
I still think we should destroy it. We basically have to options here:
The universe decays and turns into huge, cold void that can’t support any life an last forever
We destroy it and hope that new universe will be created out of nothing again
Option 1 is certain death. With option 2 there’s at least some hope for a new beginning.
Of course we don’t have a way to destroy the universe yet but we have 10^78 years to figure it out. Once we have the means to start some chain reaction that rips space time itself and destroys the entire universe we should do it.
Option 1 is hope for a new beginning too depending on certain theories.
There’s a lot of fancy math involved that I don’t understand but the upshot is that mathematically a completely barren uniform universe and an infinitely dense point are technically identical and theoretically one could spontaniously become the other.
Of course, if we can prove those theories and we will know our universe will eventually give birth to a new one we won’t have to destroy it. But if we prove that the future is just infinite emptiness I think we should.
The key is arbitrarily large timescales. It doesn’t really matter how small the chance of spontaneous self-organisation of a state of maximum entropy is because the timescales involved are effectively infinite.
That’s the scary part. There is a infinitely small probability that the state of maximum entropy will spontaneously organize in anything, right? Even into the exact form of you sitting in front of a computer and reading this comment. So on a infinite time scale at some point you will just pop out of nothing and suffocate in a vacuum, basically teleported from this very moment into future.
But not really because the universe as we understand it today has some limits on what it can organize itself into, right? So in the end we can end up with just cold emptiness forever. (if I understand all this correctly)
Quite frankly given enough time I’m confident we could do pretty much anything. I mean look at us, with our blackboards, our theories, our banging two rocks against each other.
You really think the most powerful beings in the universe decide the fate of humanity based on my lemmy comments? Thanks. For a moment there I thought no one cares what I think.
I still think we should destroy it. We basically have to options here:
Option 1 is certain death. With option 2 there’s at least some hope for a new beginning.
Of course we don’t have a way to destroy the universe yet but we have 10^78 years to figure it out. Once we have the means to start some chain reaction that rips space time itself and destroys the entire universe we should do it.
Option 1 is hope for a new beginning too depending on certain theories.
There’s a lot of fancy math involved that I don’t understand but the upshot is that mathematically a completely barren uniform universe and an infinitely dense point are technically identical and theoretically one could spontaniously become the other.
Of course, if we can prove those theories and we will know our universe will eventually give birth to a new one we won’t have to destroy it. But if we prove that the future is just infinite emptiness I think we should.
The key is arbitrarily large timescales. It doesn’t really matter how small the chance of spontaneous self-organisation of a state of maximum entropy is because the timescales involved are effectively infinite.
That’s the scary part. There is a infinitely small probability that the state of maximum entropy will spontaneously organize in anything, right? Even into the exact form of you sitting in front of a computer and reading this comment. So on a infinite time scale at some point you will just pop out of nothing and suffocate in a vacuum, basically teleported from this very moment into future.
But not really because the universe as we understand it today has some limits on what it can organize itself into, right? So in the end we can end up with just cold emptiness forever. (if I understand all this correctly)
Ah yea, the topological restart !
Quite frankly given enough time I’m confident we could do pretty much anything. I mean look at us, with our blackboards, our theories, our banging two rocks against each other.
Ragnarok is going to sort all this shit out.
I doubt anything is permanent, death included.
Thinking like this is what ensures that the most powerful beings in the universe will never let us evolve past monkeys on skateboards.
You really think the most powerful beings in the universe decide the fate of humanity based on my lemmy comments? Thanks. For a moment there I thought no one cares what I think.