You won’t get any time off though, and will still have to go into work.

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    “So the ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time,”

    I still think we should destroy it. We basically have to options here:

    1. The universe decays and turns into huge, cold void that can’t support any life an last forever
    2. We destroy it and hope that new universe will be created out of nothing again

    Option 1 is certain death. With option 2 there’s at least some hope for a new beginning.

    Of course we don’t have a way to destroy the universe yet but we have 10^78 years to figure it out. Once we have the means to start some chain reaction that rips space time itself and destroys the entire universe we should do it.

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      53 minutes ago

      Option 1 is hope for a new beginning too depending on certain theories.
      There’s a lot of fancy math involved that I don’t understand but the upshot is that mathematically a completely barren uniform universe and an infinitely dense point are technically identical and theoretically one could spontaniously become the other.

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        The key is arbitrarily large timescales. It doesn’t really matter how small the chance of spontaneous self-organisation of a state of maximum entropy is because the timescales involved are effectively infinite.

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      32 minutes ago

      Quite frankly given enough time I’m confident we could do pretty much anything. I mean look at us, with our blackboards, our theories, our banging two rocks against each other.

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      19 minutes ago

      Thinking like this is what ensures that the most powerful beings in the universe will never let us evolve past monkeys on skateboards.