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crazydoggersonOct 8, 2020

In addition to the other great comments here, check out Brian Greene’s latest “Until the End of Time”

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593171721/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_bt...

For example a complete brain capable of imagining it’s in a universe could spontaneously occur... (Boltzmann brain) but the catch is that there needs to be enough usable energy for it to function. So even if order suddenly occurs, heat death means an eventual limit to complexity.

Ultimately something needs to happen to cause a sudden reverse into very low entropy, ie another Big Bang or something of the like.

We’re talking like 10^50 years here before heat death ends thought so... the universe has some time still.

KoshkinonAug 25, 2020

This is the style in which Brian Greene wrote much of his Until the End of Time, here is just one example: "the position and the speed of a particle—that a classical physicist in the mold of Isaac Newton would adamantly claim can be specified with complete certainty but that a quantum physicist realizes are burdened by a quantum fuzziness that makes them uncertain."
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