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There is a theory out there that once heat death is done distance is meaningless, therefore zero, therefore big bang again.
by coolcase 1y ago
There is a theory out there that once heat death is done distance is meaningless, therefore zero, therefore big bang again.
- Lerc 1y agoThat was kind of my intuition as well, similarly for time, if there was no distinction between long and short amounts of time, an instant would be the same as eons. If the big bang was improbable but possible it would just happen. The fact that we are here is suggestive that is possible.
- laxd 1y agoConformal cyclic cosmology, by Roger Penrose
- coolcase 1y agoI think that's it. Ad a layman I don't understand how the final transition (final hawking radiation) then tells the rest of the universe "I'm done" similar to a sprint retro!
- zero_bias 1y agoIt’s a beautiful theory, and I’d like to believe in it, but with ubiquitous virtual particles, the last particle in the universe would never be alone to reject time