Sim Theory

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Tue Sep 20 20:39:40 PDT 2016


On 09/20/2016 09:22 PM, Tom wrote:
> btw, I'd suggest reading Phil Plaits 'Death from the Skies!'. In this
> book he examines a couple of scenarios how the universe might end (among
> a couple other ways how we could die). Very fun read.

There's The Killing Star by Charles R. Pellegrino and George Zebrowski.
Death by relativistic bombardment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson/comments/1j08oq/text_excerpt_from_the_killing_star_by_charles/

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:07:56PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 3:48 PM,  <xorcist at sigaint.org> wrote:
>>> I find it difficult to believe in the heat death of the universe. The Big
>>> Crunch makes sense to me. The universe expands for a time, and collapses.
>>> Like breathing.
>>> But continual expansion with the universe turning into some cold,
>>> undefinable soup.
>>
>> Current model really fucking cold heat death will occur. Yet if gravity
>> is true, yes, no matter infintismal amount, you cannot blow past to
>> escape it. Thus collapse, or at least steady state in case of repulse
>> forces, is the required result.
>>
>> It is sad that not even sci fi knows how to harvest from forcibly
>> diminishing Kelvin, as to revert requires similar energy. But we
>> will have fun till then, provided we get beyond Sol or the galaxy.
> 



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