Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by lioeters on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:10PM
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Similarly, I find the idea of the end of time to be weirdly unreal and impossible. It feels like time is not a thing that has a beginning or an end, and that it would just stretch and dissipate infinitely into the future.
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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by 8note on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:26PM
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You can still imagine that as an end, and define an end based on that infinite stretch. At some point, you can't tell the difference between before and after more stretching, and you'll never be able to stretch in a way that can be noticed.
There's no more events to happen, and more so, no ability for more events to happen.
Thats still likely an artifact of our models though, and that when you do to something like that, that new events start happening again
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by empyrrhicist on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:58PM
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If electrons decay, there will be a time when there's nothing in the universe which can function as a clock.
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by eis on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:38PM
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Which does not mean that time stops. If no one hears a tree fall that does not mean the tree isn't falling.
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by empyrrhicist on Thursday July 13, 2023 @07:56PM
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Not a physicist, but I know that there are physicists who disagree with that. See: Roger Penrose and CCC.
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by eis on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:09AM
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I'm not sure if Penrose suggests that time stops once there are only photons left. He says it is equivalent to the situation at the Big Bang and time certainly didn't stop there. In fact, in his conformal cyclical cosmology spacetime goes on indefinitely but just reboots regularily.
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by empyrrhicist on Friday July 14, 2023 @06:46AM
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Right,but I think the idea implies that time is different, not that it keeps going on as normal. Honestly not sure though.
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by mensetmanusman on Thursday July 13, 2023 @10:23PM
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Apparently time requires mass...
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by koprulusector on Thursday July 13, 2023 @07:37PM
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Has it been proven that electrons decay?
Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr...
by empyrrhicist on Thursday July 13, 2023 @07:56PM
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I don't think so