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Just to be a smartass: I guess it will last for a significant timespan, but not actually "forever" unless Hitachi also finds out how to reverse entropy or how t
by bad_alloc 14y ago
Just to be a smartass: I guess it will last for a significant timespan, but not actually "forever" unless Hitachi also finds out how to reverse entropy or how to leave this universe. If they don't a lot of stuff might get their data, like proton-decay, the upcoming black hole era or the fact that everything is liquid on very large timescales.
Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Future_of_the_Earth.2C_the_Solar_System_and_the_Universe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#Futu...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe
- StavrosK 14y agoIt's for small values of "forever".
- vectorbunny 14y agoNothing last forever... except hyperbole.
- zem 14y agoThe stars and Galaxies died and snuffed out, and space grew black after ten trillion years of running down. One by one Man fused with AC, each physical body losing its mental identity in a manner that was somehow not a loss but a gain. Man's last mind paused before fusion, looking over a space that included nothing but the dregs of one last dark star and nothing besides but incredibly thin matter, agitated randomly by the tag ends of heat wearing out, asymptotically, to the absolute zero. Man said, "AC, is this the end? Can this chaos not be reversed into the Universe once more? Can that not be done?" AC said, "Hang on, I have the answer inscribed on a Hitachi glass tablet somewhere." -- Isaac Asimov, "The Last Tablet"