If the atoms continue drifting, then that in itself is still change.
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chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 months agoTechnically change isn’t a constant. Eventually everything will stop changing, because all of the atoms will have drifted too far apart to react to each other, and the universe will just be a thin soup of everything that will never touch anything ever again. Tomorrow is Wednesday, though, so only a few more days until the weekend!
thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Zink@programming.dev 2 months ago
Yeah, that really drives home the point that the only rule is that everything is temporary.
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But by that point, cognition itself will be a physical impossibility, so is the the lack of change even real if there’s nothing to conceptualize its truth, and thus capable of declaring: “Nothing will ever change anymore”?
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You are mixing philosophy and fact. It doesn’t matter what can or can’t be perceived. If you blindfold yourself, the world doesn’t go away.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 months ago
We don’t know that for fact, we can’t even agree on the age of the universe. Maybe there’s a big crunch
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
I don’t think it’s been ruled out for certain, but I believe the data is looking incredibly bad for big crunch enthusiasts, since the discovery of dark energy.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Dark energy is a bit of a meme, have the inconsistencies with jws and hubble been resolved yet?
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I take issue with discovery. To say there’s a mysterious inexplicable expansion of the universe hardly qualifies as such. It sounds more like a failure to understand our physical laws than to posit the presence of mysterious and otherwise undetectable entity.