Assumes the universe can’t reach a static state that it remains in forever. Final shape, if you will.
Comment on Cool Bug Fact #47
insanemantis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If nonexistence was temporary before birth, surely it won’t be temporary after birth
Yeah it’ll be a hella long time sure
But you won’t feel how long it was. You’ll just be born again with a new and different existence
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
insanemantis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You talking about the inevitable heat death of the universe?
Yeah there’s a 100% chance that it won’t stay like that. Just a matter of time until whatever caused the atoms and energies to become clumpy and imperfect is going to do it again in some big or small way. There’s no beginning and end to the universe, which means that it has existed for an infinite amount of time, which also means that heat deaths must have happened before
Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Everything has already happened and will always happen, over and over again in incomprehensible stretches of time that the human brain is not capable of quantifying
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We get it. You have infinity as your denominator and that takes you literally everywhere. However I must point out that if everything must happen “everything” includes an infinite unending static state to the universe. This is not a contradiction as we know some infinites are larger than others. Right after I am a green goose with a candy whistle for a dick, a permanent heat death of the universe will be the next thing to occur.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
cosmology is an interesting subject, and what you’re describing is a cyclic model of cosmology like is typical in hinduistic literature. however, physics points in a different direction, indicating that the universe is in fact continuously expanding, which is a non-reversible process.
the exact long-term fate of the universe is not 100% guaranteed. surely “heat death” is a possibility, but renewable energy exists on cosmological scales, so an intelligent species could utilize this possibility to build energy-harvesting machines that keep civilization running indefinitely.
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Not what infinite time means or implies.
insanemantis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How can you have infinite time to do something and never, ever do it?
There’s no such thing as a perfectly zero percent chance of anything. Roll enough times, roll 52! times or Googolplex times and you’ll see the most crazy shit happen
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Because infinite possibilities does not include impossible possibilities.
Imagine an infinitely long track. We will pretend, for the moment, that this represents whatever makes you “you” and that the track doesnt end like literally everything in creation.
You were placed on it by a unique set of circumstances including time, place, and genetics, but you will never be able to leave the track. That would, metaphorically, represent a life event like you flapping your arms hard enough to fly. It simply will not happen, no matter how long you travel down the track, because you are bound by the limits of the track (physical reality)
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Infinite possibilities, not infinite impossibilities.