Is the universe dying?

[Yuurei]

The universe doesn't "die". It changes and reforms itself.

 

[Mole]

The universe doesn't "die". It changes and reforms itself.

The death of God was reported in the 19th century.

 

[wool]

The death of God was reported in the 19th century.

Was that fake news?

 

[Grand Admiral Crunch]

What is dead may never die.

Batteries and cars can't die either, cause they never lived.

 

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Is the Universe Dying? - Universe Today



Is the universe dying? Oh sht!

Putting Time In Perspective - UPDATED - Wait But Why

 

[Mole]

Was that fake news?

In 1840, about the middle of the 19th century, the electric telegraph killed the book. And as we worshipped the God of the Book, the God of the Book was killed by the electric telegraph.

The electric telegraph has gone on from strength to strength, onto the telephone, onto the radio, onto the television, and the internet, while the book has been relegated to the content of the internet.

And just as we make out tools and our tools make us, our tools make and unmake our Gods.

And we are no longer authentic literate individuals, we now play electronic roles. For instance, I play the electronic role of Mole from Wind in the Willows.

Is this news to you?

 

[wool]

In 1840, about the middle of the 19th century, the electric telegraph killed the book. And as we worshipped the God of the Book, the God of the Book was killed by the electric telegraph.

The electric telegraph has gone on from strength to strength, onto the telephone, onto the radio, onto the television, and the internet, while the book has been relegated to the content of the internet.

And just as we make out tools and our tools make us, our tools make and unmake our Gods.

And we are no longer authentic literate individuals, we now play electronic roles. For instance, I play the electronic role of Mole from Wind in the Willows.

Is this news to you?

Do you know what the first message sent by telegraph was?

 

[Mole]

Milliways

I was dining at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, click on The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Episode 5 - YouTube

And rather than discussing the end of the universe, we were waiting for it.

 

[Forever]

This is going to sound new age and all and probably off topic in a definitional sense:

But we must all accept change, it is within the nature of the universe and the only thing that is constant.

 

[Forever]

Was that fake news?

Frederich Nietzsche

 

[Grand Admiral Crunch]

Putting Time In Perspective - UPDATED - Wait But Why

That was a good article. I enjoyed that. Thanks

 

[SpankyMcFly]

The human mortality conundrum continues.

Always. Observe the predictive quality of this 'poem' by Marcia Lee Anderson. It's practically a scientific formula really.


We multiply diseases for delight,
invent a shameful want, a horrid doubt,
luxuriate in license, feed on night,
make inward bedlam — and will not come out
Why should we? Stripped of subtle complication,
who could regard the sun except with fear?
This is our shelter against contemplation,
our only refuge from the plain and clear.
Who would crawl out from under the obscure
to stand defenseless in the sunny air?
No terror of obliquity so sure
as the most shining terror of despair
to know how simple is our deepest need,
how sharp, and how impossible to feed.


Stare into the sun [MENTION=15392]Cellmold[/MENTION]. Don't look away.

 

[Kanra Jest]

All good things must come to an end ... then begin again.

Kinda like upgrading from windows 7 to windows 8 ... only cosmic

I'll be long dead, in any case. It is of zero consequence to me.

 

[Cellmold]

Always. Observe the predictive quality of this 'poem' by Marcia Lee Anderson. It's practically a scientific formula really.


We multiply diseases for delight,
invent a shameful want, a horrid doubt,
luxuriate in license, feed on night,
make inward bedlam — and will not come out
Why should we? Stripped of subtle complication,
who could regard the sun except with fear?
This is our shelter against contemplation,
our only refuge from the plain and clear.
Who would crawl out from under the obscure
to stand defenseless in the sunny air?
No terror of obliquity so sure
as the most shining terror of despair
to know how simple is our deepest need,
how sharp, and how impossible to feed.


Stare into the sun [MENTION=15392]Cellmold[/MENTION]. Don't look away.

I may just become one who rises with the dawn to drink in the sun.

 

[SpankyMcFly]

I may just become one who rises with the dawn to drink in the sun.

I commissioned a silversmith in Mexico to make me a custom ring made of silver. On it, half of an Imperial Japanese rising sun because I'm PC like that Cost me $300 but was worth it. I used it as a trigger to spark a memory and thoughts which I'd use to reframe my mind. This was often done from the roof of the condos (at some point during my workout) I lived in at the time and often during the morning sun rise. A glance, some inner dialogue, a deep breath of crisp fresh morning air, "Ah what a good day to be alive, maybe today is the day I die? Best make the most of it then."

Nothing focuses you like Staring At the Sun [MENTION=15392]Cellmold[/MENTION]

 

[Blackout]

It sounds like they don't even know what the hell they're talking about.

oh well, might as well just get drunk.

 

[Blackout]

What really bothers me is how scientists take it as though they know everything for certain and it's that at times which kind of irks me a little.

If they know things like this for certain why do so many of them have trouble agreeing with anything?

 

[Mole]

We know the whole universe is expanding away from us at an accelerating rate, and we know that matter can't go faster than the speed of light, and we also know that the universe of space and time can go faster than the speed of light.

And we also know that everything in the universe will be moving away from us at faster than the speed of light and so will be invisible to us. This will take many billions of years, in the meantime we are large celled animals and we have a relatively short evolutionary life span, so the life span of homo sapiens is measured at best in only millions years, so we won't be here to see the universe disappear. Unless of course we are dinning at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

 

[Blackout]

I feel like they might as well say that the universe is a contradiction of itself then, and everything that "is" "isn't" just as equally, as if the universe works in perfect harmony that it doesn't.

 

[indra]

I read today that in the Hawaiian mythos of creation the octopus is the only survivor of our last universe's iteration.

Which explains my relation with the number eight.