by Centurii-chan

  • @Wilzax
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    678 months ago

    I see no downside to living forever because if the heat death of the universe is truly the eternity I’m doomed to, then I’ll eventually become so deprived of sensory input that there would be no difference between life and death.

    • Match!!
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      538 months ago

      that’s bullshit you’re gonna complain about it like you do already

        • @[email protected]
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          8 months ago

          Wait, I thought the heat death of the universe ment it all got so hot nothing survived… Does it literally mean heat will die and it’s going to be cold?

          • knightly the Sneptaur
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            178 months ago

            Basically, yeah.

            Eventually the distant galaxies will fade into memory as their light is lost to the expansion of the universe, then the stars will all burn out, the radioactive materials will all decay, and black holes evaporate in the final flashes of light to illuminate the universe.

            With no sources of heat left, what remains gets down near absolute zero as residual energy is lost as infrared radiation. The heat death of the universe is the long, cold dark at the end of everything.

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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            8 months ago

            Yes. To my understanding, it’s when all the things in space drift so far apart due to the expansion of the universe that all the atoms and energy are spread so thin that there is nothing left but empty, cold, void.

            The antithesis to Heat Death is “The Big Crunch” where the expansion of the universe stops and then starts to go back into itself until there is only a singularity like the one that the big bang originated from.

          • @Hawke
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            118 months ago

            It means that everything will be in equilibrium, and there will be no such thing as hot or cold. No energy to move from place to place to create the idea of hot or cold.

            So I guess that means that it’d be cold but the concept would be meaningless.

          • @[email protected]
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            108 months ago

            Yeah put simply, heat is energy. When the energy from all the stars is spent and eventually no sources remain…

            It’s going to be very cold

          • femtech
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            38 months ago

            It’s a theory that all the suns go out and there is no heat left.

            • Atelopus-zeteki
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              48 months ago

              Energy is neither created, nor destroyed, only changes form. With the ‘heat death’ of the universe, all the heat spreads out evenly, so it’s pretty danged cold by our standards of such things.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

              "If the curvature of the universe is hyperbolic or flat, or if dark energy is a positive cosmological constant, the universe will continue expanding forever, and a heat death is expected to occur,[3] with the universe cooling to approach equilibrium at a very low temperature after a long time period. "

      • @Wilzax
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        38 months ago

        Oh yeah definitely but in the face of infinity all complaints seem so… finite

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      Immortality doesn’t imply invulnerability. Statistically you’ll turn into a meat sack filled with shattered bones at some point. Pain eternal.

    • @[email protected]
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      338 months ago

      I mean, true heat death would also imply that even your body is spent. No neurons will be able to fire. No brain activity. You won’t be any different than dead.

      • knightly the Sneptaur
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        308 months ago

        Thus, any “true” sort of immortality must necessarily violate the conservation of energy.

        Therefore, we should investigate immortal entities as potential post-stellar-phase power sources.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          Oooh, brand new man made horror beyond my comprehension: immortality as an endless torment, being perpetually harvested as a resource.

          Actually, I think Made In Abyss touched on that a bit in its second season

    • @harmsy
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      28 months ago

      Being unable to die even though he wished for it, Wilzax eventually stopped thinking.