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Freeman Dyson: No Heat Death
- jerf 16y agoThere are gaping and blindingly obvious holes in that summary, such as the one observed in the comments that suns are burning mass to be that hot and can not continue that way forever. Part of the heat death idea is the universe consisting of nothing but iron, black holes, and radiation, with the former eventually transitioning to radiation on sufficiently large scales through either proton decay or Hawking radiation, and a relatively brief burst of stars in the universe's youth doesn't do anything to remove that. But I do see an inkling of what could be a more robust idea in there, and Dyson is known to be a smart person who could not possibly have missed this, so I assume there's a more complete and sensible version of this argument somewhere. I'd love a link, if anyone knows where to find it.