by Centurii-chan
Imagine still being alive to witness the slow, agonizing death of the universe, when all matter and energy are evenly spread across an incomprehensible vastness, and nothing will or can ever happen again. The next billion years would be fairly interesting until the sun expands and swallows the Earthโฆor, at least, dries up its oceans. Hopefully, youโve found a way out and onto another planet for another billion or so years. But after about 170 quattuorvigintillion years of cold, dark, nothingness, youโll probably get pretty bored of it all.
I donโt think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time.
Making a lot of assumptions here that our models are accurate enough to correctly predict the end of the universe - whether itโs a big crunch, big rip, heat death, some clumsy git dropping the marble so it shatters, or something else entirely. I would take eternal life+youth so I could find out.
Once I know everything, then I might get bored.
So far, I think the general consensus is heat death. Being an optimist, my hope is for the big crunch. If that oneโs true, whatโd be infinitely hilarious is if it always repeats in exactly the same way.
If thatโs the case, then I guess all of us do truly live forever. We just microdose the same exact snippet of eternity.
So much of what exists is spheres and circles. Whoโs to say time doesnโt also run in a circle?
