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Similarly, I find the idea of the end of time to be weirdly unreal and impossible. It feels like time is not a thing that has a beginning or an end, and that it
by lioeters 3y ago
Similarly, I find the idea of the end of time to be weirdly unreal and impossible. It feels like time is not a thing that has a beginning or an end, and that it would just stretch and dissipate infinitely into the future.
- 8note 3y agoYou can still imagine that as an end, and define an end based on that infinite stretch. At some point, you can't tell the difference between before and after more stretching, and you'll never be able to stretch in a way that can be noticed. There's no more events to happen, and more so, no ability for more events to happen. Thats still likely an artifact of our models though, and that when you do to something like that, that new events start happening again
- empyrrhicist 3y agoIf electrons decay, there will be a time when there's nothing in the universe which can function as a clock.
- eis 3y agoWhich does not mean that time stops. If no one hears a tree fall that does not mean the tree isn't falling.
- empyrrhicist 3y agoNot a physicist, but I know that there are physicists who disagree with that. See: Roger Penrose and CCC.
- eis 3y agoI'm not sure if Penrose suggests that time stops once there are only photons left. He says it is equivalent to the situation at the Big Bang and time certainly didn't stop there. In fact, in his conformal cyclical cosmology spacetime goes on indefinitely but just reboots regularily.
- empyrrhicist 3y agoRight,but I think the idea implies that time is different, not that it keeps going on as normal. Honestly not sure though.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoApparently time requires mass...
- koprulusector 3y agoHas it been proven that electrons decay?
- empyrrhicist 3y agoI don't think so