Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for November 03, 2014
November 02, 2014
November 04, 2014
Transcript:
I curse you to live forever! How's that a curse? Society will change and change and change and then one day you will cease to belong anymore. Yeah, but I'll be famous the whole time as the world's oldest man. Your your immorality will separate you from your mortal brethren. Yeah, it'll make me better than them. You will watch as your loved ones die. I'll get over it. I have forever. You will have to watch endless remakes of beloved movies. Have mercy! Have mercy!
Stephen Gilberg about 10 years ago
I’d point out how unfun it’ll be when the sun goes supernova. And afterward, floating in the void. (Don’t bother saying, “We could be on other planets by then.” Eventually the entire universe will be uninhabitable.)
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 10 years ago
So how would that be different from how things are now?The idea that the universe will wind down is particularly myopic and tied specifically to our singular vantage point and belief in an inflationary universe that is only 13.xB years old. It is a great theory, and well supported in observation, if you overlook a bunch of stuff that has no rational explanation without a simple inter-dimensional mechanism of balanced energy exchange such as suggested in Brane Theory.