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It's a temporary striving towards perfect order within a larger system that trends towards maximum disorder.
by darkerside 3y ago
It's a temporary striving towards perfect order within a larger system that trends towards maximum disorder.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoPerhaps its not temporary but an eternal balance?
- darkerside 3y agoHeat death of the sun would beg to differ
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThe article discusses seeding life at a galactic scale, which is beyond our sun. At some point you’re talking about intergalactic space. Further, the expansion of space and the necessity of a universal heat death is a theory, and is in no way proven.
- tmountain 3y agoDoubtful given the laws of thermodynamics and the rate at which the universe is expanding. Heat death seems to be an inevitable conclusion at some point.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoWe’ve not established the rate of expansion, if it’s accelerating, what rate it’s accelerating, or even if space is expanding. It seems likely but not proven or nailed down. Further, it’s not known if it’s possible to manipulate the expansion, such that you could create a local pocket of non expanding space. At the moment galactic space is likely not expanding, and space around black holes wouldn’t expand for an extraordinarily long time. It does seem inevitable, but it also seems that way from our current point of knowledge. Nothing says the story ends with our current understanding.
- tmountain 3y agoAh, that's a fair point.
- edgyquant 3y agoFor all we know every 15 billion years a universe worth of matter springs into existences blowing the existing matter outside of our visible universe. This is a contrived point but we don’t know what the universe looks like at really large timescales beyond our visible universes birth. It could (and likely does) get weird.
- edgyquant 3y agoBoth of these things are simply observations from a limited perspective. If the universe just dies doesn’t it seem weird for it to have ever existed in the first place? Surely this one thing that is all that ever could and does exist didnt just happen to start existing 13 billion years ago and we’re just lucky enough to be around to experience the short existence of all there ever is and could be.
- bowsamic 3y agoLife does not reduce entropy even in isolation