Inevitable Death of the Universe Disturbs Me Greatly

[polyharmonic]

Although it isn't proven beyond doubt, there is a great consensus that the ultimate fate of the Universe is that it will eventually die due to the Big Freeze or the Big Rip. At that point, life is impossible anywhere in the Universe and the Universe is dead forever.

When I first learned that the Sun will burn out and engulf Earth a few billion years later, I was very despondent. But then I thought that by then we would have learned to move to other planets or even transition to life in artificial bodies that can just roam outer space freely. Worse case, humans are extinct but there supposedly would be life somewhere else in the Universe right?

Well now I learned that the Universe itself will "burn out" in the Big Freeze or Big Rip! Now maybe ultimate reality is that even if THIS universe dies, maybe there are other Universes with life. Or maybe the scientists are wrong although they seem very certain right now!

The inevitable death of the Universe is truly inescapable! And once that happens, it is dead for all eternity. It is very disturbing!

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Worried about entropy and the inevitable dissolution of every material object around you? Try new, improved conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC), brought to you by Roger Penrose.

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

Alternatively, read Nietzsche's thoughts on eternal return for the depressing viewpoint that everyone is destined to live their pointless, stupid lives again and again in the same way and every variant thereof.

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

So, either deal with being flayed on the wheel of torture for eternity, or comfort yourself that everything will actually end.

 

[Leviathan]

It's easier when you consider that the Universe is a mean, sadistic, perverted old git that has killed a LOT of very nice people.

...really it kinda has it coming.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My advice to you all, is to start drinking heavily.

 

[BillJ]

So, either deal with being flayed on the wheel of torture for eternity, or comfort yourself that everything will actually end.

I'm honestly good either way.

 

[Kor]

I believe the whole issue of the universe dying someday qualifies as what Douglas Adams called an "SEP."

Kor

 

[MacLeod]

Yes but the Death of the Universe is not exactly a pressing concern, after all she still potentially has a 100 trillion years in her. But the question is what comes after.

 

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[marsh8472]

There may be other universes too

 

[Amaris]

Although it isn't proven beyond doubt, there is a great consensus that the ultimate fate of the Universe is that it will eventually die due to the Big Freeze or the Big Rip. At that point, life is impossible anywhere in the Universe and the Universe is dead forever.

When I first learned that the Sun will burn out and engulf Earth a few billion years later, I was very despondent. But then I thought that by then we would have learned to move to other planets or even transition to life in artificial bodies that can just roam outer space freely. Worse case, humans are extinct but there supposedly would be life somewhere else in the Universe right?

Well now I learned that the Universe itself will "burn out" in the Big Freeze or Big Rip! Now maybe ultimate reality is that even if THIS universe dies, maybe there are other Universes with life. Or maybe the scientists are wrong although they seem very certain right now!

The inevitable death of the Universe is truly inescapable! And once that happens, it is dead for all eternity. It is very disturbing!

We are already dead, it's just we haven't experienced it yet, so too is the universe dead, it simply has not experienced it yet. Everything dies.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

What do you mean we are already dead? I'm linear thank you very much and not dead yet!

 

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Yeah, let's not be hasty.

In The Songs of Distant Earth, Arthur C Clarke postulated a Quantum Drive that could eventually reverse the entropy of the universe. Or something. I forget, but it would stop the Big Crunch.

Also, it has been speculated that new universes constantly blossom out of the quantum foam and that technology could be developed to trigger and control this phenomenon. Humanity, or whatever humanity has become in trillions of years, may just escape to their own customized cosmos. Hopefully one with a better retirement plan.

 

[φ of π]

Eh, whether you die tomorrow or live to be a hundred, in 1,000 years you'll still have been dead for centuries.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Might as well live to be a hundred then.

 

[Velocity]

"All this has happened before, and all of it will happen again"

 

[Australis]

By the time it happens, humanity will be long gone. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain. Eh, whatcha gonna do?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

There may be other universes too

But if there's any kind of universal....universes theory, those are gonna die too.

Are they younger universes? Could we dump our universe for a younger one?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Not really our problem.

 

[Paradise City]

Can't change it. Just gotta ride it out.

 

[Mudd]

Dying is an experience; death is not.