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The heat death of the universe is inevitable anyway ๐คทโโ๏ธ
So? Death from old age is inevitable too, that doesn't mean I'm going to stop breathing or eating. All of life is just postponing the inevitable, but just because the inevitable is inevitable doesn't mean we should stop postponing.
If human beings were the only intelligent life in the universe, then the difference between being wiped out by the sun versus the heat death of the universe is so mind boggling big, that it beggars belief.
So many - near infinite - civilisations could come and go.
Perhaps one of them would find a way to endure.
Oh good, just what I needed with my comics. A side of existential dread.
It probably won't be us for sure. Where did this heat death of the universe idea originate? First time I've heard of it here in this thread. I'm questioning now my participation in Lemmy, because I hated Reddit and this is rapidly becoming Reddit 2.0, just without spez
It came from Kelvin's work on thermodynamics in the 1850s, and has been refined by many scientists since then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
It's also the subject of a famous short story by Isaac Asimov: http://www.thelastquestion.net/
Thanks
The short story looks like a good read, love Asimov's writing
Hear hear
Becoming? Always has been.
In this case, it sounds more like a them thing.
Earth will become a molten blob in a few billion years... then over a billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion times later...
Whatever lives on Earth in a billion years from now, if it spreads out, will have a few billion times more billions of years to live.
You're assuming an eternal universe (as opposed to, e.g., a big crunch), which seems likely given the observed accelerating expansion of the universe.
I don't agree, I think it's merely someone's hypothesis.. That being said, what we think about it is kinda irrelevant... We won't be around to see if it happens or not lol
Of the universe? You claim knowledge of things far beyond your comprehension.. Or did you mean this tiny galaxy?
Love seeing someone act like a smug know-it-all while being ignorant to a pretty basic concept in cosmology.
I'm calling bullshit on that 'hypothesis', you can believe it if you want
I said I never heard of it before yes I was ignorant of the hypothesis, read about it now and I think it's bullshit, so my smugness remains ๐๐. Ignorance can be removed, but smugness is perpetual. Lord Kelvin never extrapolated that law