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Inevitable Death of the Universe Disturbs Me Greatly
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I take great comfort in the theory that the universe is so incomprehensibly infinite that it does or has or will contain anything and everything that can be imagined and quite a bit more besides.
Imagine a marshmallow world with purple skies and sentient bunny rabbits...statistically the universe in it's infinite combinations of mathematical equations contains such a place.
Imagine a marshmallow world with purple skies and sentient bunny rabbits...statistically the universe in it's infinite combinations of mathematical equations contains such a place.
One thing that bothers me is I'm gonna be dead and never know much about the universe at all..
Can you or anybody who has ever lived been able to do anything about our mortal status?
Simple answer is no.
It's out of your hands.Nothing you can do except...
maybe go out and experience as much as you can of what you can.
Leave the worrying to someone who can handle it....like God(if you wish).
I don't mean to give you pat answers...truth is there are no answers.
You worry about the end of everything??.Truth is is that is simply not your worry to worry about.It's too big.
Simple answer is no.
It's out of your hands.Nothing you can do except...
maybe go out and experience as much as you can of what you can.
Leave the worrying to someone who can handle it....like God(if you wish).
I don't mean to give you pat answers...truth is there are no answers.
You worry about the end of everything??.Truth is is that is simply not your worry to worry about.It's too big.
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It may be big, but the end result is rather personal.
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.....
I've looked at the universe from both sides now.....
Keep yourself alive.
I've got a lot of songs in my head today.
As a kid I used to be disapointed to think I'll never get to see if we really do have colonies on other planets and if we'll really travel the stars like in most science fiction, but I at least thought I'd still see some cool stuff like maybe a man on Mars.
Now even at 32 it's probably fair to see I won't even live to see that.
Now even at 32 it's probably fair to see I won't even live to see that.
When I was a child, the US was aiming for LEO and L1 space stations, a permanent Moon base and Mars expeditions by the late 1980s. Instead it seems they spent the money trying to bomb Indochina back to the stone age and Nixon decided to go ahead with a dementedly oversized and unsafe shuttle. I have no idea what mankind's existential purpose is now -- to consume all of the Earth's resources and make vapid reality TV shows with nothing remaining to show for our efforts when our species goes extinct as most species inevitably do? I guess I'm a glass completely f***ing empty type.
Obama wanted humans on mars by the 2030's..
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/11/obama-mars-mission-nasa-habitats-space-travel-2030
All experiences are rather personal, one tiny little bit of the universe is all any of us can ask for. The only ways you can make any of it matter is to act in ways that others interpret as meaningful, or find meaning in your own little bubble.
lulz.
Eternal life would mean that you would experience the same brain states again and again (not that I don't seem to achieve that state most days anyway) so your potential experience is limited. The limit is known as the informational Bekenstein bound (I), which represents the maximum information needed to perfectly recreate an average human brain down to the quantum level -- approximately 2.6 x 10^42 bits. The total number of possible states of the human brain is 2^I or less than approximately 10^(7.8 x 10^41).
[ETA] Although enormous, this number is not infinite and it represents all possible state configurations (including memory) for all possible data inputs. All possible moments of all possible lives with human-sized brains or smaller would be included. [/ETA]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
I conclude that living for ever is perhaps worse than dying. Of course, if one could augment the size of the brain, the number of potential states would increase, but this number would never be infinite -- even if you converted the entire mass of the observable universe to brain.
[ETA] Although enormous, this number is not infinite and it represents all possible state configurations (including memory) for all possible data inputs. All possible moments of all possible lives with human-sized brains or smaller would be included. [/ETA]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekenstein_bound
I conclude that living for ever is perhaps worse than dying. Of course, if one could augment the size of the brain, the number of potential states would increase, but this number would never be infinite -- even if you converted the entire mass of the observable universe to brain.
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I just want to live forever so I'll have time to decide whether or not I want to live forever.
Yeah, it's not like our lives aren't boring and repetitive anyway -- well mine is, I can't speak for anyone else. However, I've kind of gotten used to it.
in my opinion the best death is still a lot worse than the shittiest life. Hence I'll live as long as I possibly can and I trust the universe to do the same.
Besides, if the universe stops expanding it needn't necessarily die any time soon. It'll just been grown up.
Plus: perhaps the yoyo-effect is universal? Why shouldn't our universe shrink and expand at regular or irregular intervals? It'd make sense for it to shrink when a neighbouring universe or dimension expands and vice versa.
Besides, if the universe stops expanding it needn't necessarily die any time soon. It'll just been grown up.
Plus: perhaps the yoyo-effect is universal? Why shouldn't our universe shrink and expand at regular or irregular intervals? It'd make sense for it to shrink when a neighbouring universe or dimension expands and vice versa.
Yeah, we don't really know -- it's just extrapolation -- we're like tiny ants feeling parts of an elephant in a darkened room and trying to work out what the whole thing looks like. We discover new stuff all the time -- for example, dark energy and the accelerating expansion. We have names for dark matter and dark energy but no clue as to what they really are or if they're not just a side effect of other phenomenon such as gravitons leaking into other dimensions or whole, other universes.
Indecisive much?
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That's a nice idea, and if all things were equal, a beneficial one. However, not all things are equal.
But some are a bit more equal than others? It'd be so nice if we could put unwanted items of our lives (eg certain politicians) into a little extra-bubble and expel them out of our own universe bubble, like an amoeba does with the leftovers of its food.
