The heat death of the Universe is the idea that increasing entropy will eventually cause the Universe to arrive at a uniformly, maximally disordered state. Every piece of evidence we have points towards our unfortunate, inevitable trending towards that end, with every burning star, every gravitational merger, and even every breath we, ourselves, take.
Image credit: the Carnot Cycle, courtesy of NASA.
Yet even while we head towards this fate, it may be possible for intelligence in an artificial form to continue in the Universe for an extraordinarily long time: possibly for as long as a googol years, but not quite indefinitely. Eventually, it all must end.
Image credit: Courtesy of http://ift.tt/18jQPLo.
Paul Halpern has the sobering, but fascinating story.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1PSOSS6
The heat death of the Universe is the idea that increasing entropy will eventually cause the Universe to arrive at a uniformly, maximally disordered state. Every piece of evidence we have points towards our unfortunate, inevitable trending towards that end, with every burning star, every gravitational merger, and even every breath we, ourselves, take.
Image credit: the Carnot Cycle, courtesy of NASA.
Yet even while we head towards this fate, it may be possible for intelligence in an artificial form to continue in the Universe for an extraordinarily long time: possibly for as long as a googol years, but not quite indefinitely. Eventually, it all must end.
Image credit: Courtesy of http://ift.tt/18jQPLo.
Paul Halpern has the sobering, but fascinating story.
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1PSOSS6
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