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Not terribly relevant is my understanding. Heat death happens when everything is far colder and more spread apart, mostly turned into leftover radiation. The a
by andrewflnr 3y ago
Not terribly relevant is my understanding. Heat death happens when everything is far colder and more spread apart, mostly turned into leftover radiation.
The article mentioned that scientists made predictions about these reactions, but they still predicted heat death, too.
- TheRealPomax 3y agoBoth the "heat" and "death" part of heat death are a bit of a misnomer: it's not so much about things being so cold as to be dead, and it's definitely not about being spread out so much no interactions happen anymore: it's purely about the universe being in state of thermodynamic equilibrium, where interactions can still happen but do not increase entropy. In theory, the entire universe could be a million kelvin plasma, but once it reaches universal thermodynamic equilibrium, that's its "heat death".