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Like living in a slow motion explosion on a spec of dust

[–] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wont there also be balls of iron-56 just chilling?

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yet all this energy and electromagnetic phenomena
from our very limited vantage point and experiments
feels like it bathes everything as it decays gradually
in slow motion, one rung at a time, towards entropy,
zooming down an exponential thermodynamic curve
that aims and trends towards zero, beyond our view,
beyond the horizon, touching infinity itself.
And here's the craziest part: the space itself where
this is all taking place, is accelerating its' expansion.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun fact;

The last Star Wars movie will be made roughly around that same time.

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[–] joan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

and what comes after that guys

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No, really, this is a fantastic question we should all ask more.

Because on the outside, in terms of space and the physical universe, it will undergo phase transitions, it will experience a long, slow cooling into rarified energy... but those terms "long" and "rarified" are just from our human reference frame. Roger Penrose's work demonstrated how even a vast, infinite expanding space with tiny particles zooming through it, from other reference frames behaves exactly like the big bang. IE: as the universe cools and expands, it's still infinitely dense and exploding outward from a different perspective of time and space. It's perpetual.

That's one thing. The other thing is this... time passing is meaningless if nobody is there to observe it. You will be dead for an infinite amount of time, you won't notice a moment of it. But every passing moment you're dead, the universe is rolling dice. It's always rolling dice.

Eventually, even if it takes so incredibly long that we don't have numbers to express it (we actually do) then something is bound to happen again. Eventually these "somethings" will be just right to create a kind of universe, complex information systems, and maybe even a consciousness that can experience it.

It sounds kind of fantastic and overly fanciful, but I am basing this on the evidence that it happened at least once before that we know of.

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

I used to like wait but why until he made a 3 post puff piece about elon musk's neuralink

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

We live in but a bright second, yet are determined to fill it with darkness unending.

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