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The idea of any system, much less a society and state, lasting for hundreds of billions of years in any recognizable version of itself is dubious. The idea of
by Semiapies 5y ago
The idea of any system, much less a society and state, lasting for hundreds of billions of years in any recognizable version of itself is dubious. The idea of any relativistic society functioning as a thing over vast stretches of the observable universe is also dubious. The variations time and space would bring would make worrying about alien competitors beside the point.
But even granting those premises, any early-universe super-civilization would eventually be cut off from its own distant reaches by expansion. This would be true of any civilization that expanded to its observable limits.
- rbanffy 5y agoA relativistic society can't function as a cohesive whole with humans when the round-trip time exceeds a human life. Other lifeforms would be different, as their timescales would not be the same as ours. > This would be true of any civilization that expanded to its observable limits. If stable traversable wormholes are at all possible, I'd expect one such civilization to be able to use networks of those to remain connected. Even if matter couldn't traverse them, information could. But, then, if they resemble us in this sense, isolation will probably make them diverge.