Wont there also be balls of iron-56 just chilling?
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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This is the main reason why, if you come across a genie in a lamp, you should probably not wish for immortality. You're gonna be hellafuckin bored for a loooooooong time.
Just one trillion years will do
I don't want to imagine the level of procrastination I would have if I were immortal.
I would wish for a life that ends when I want it to. Like the numenoreans had in LoTR
From what I have read on the internet so far, it's probably best to not wish for anything at all. Just throw it in the deepest ocean to do us all a favour.
I suppose you could wish for all genies to be instantly annihilated. Maybe toss the GOP in there for good measure.
"Your wish shall be granted."
genie destroys the universe
"Eh, worth it."
What about extreme longevity though
Yet all this energy and electromagnetic phenomena
from our very limited vantage point and experiments
feels like it bathes everything as it decays gradually
in slow motion, one rung at a time, towards entropy,
zooming down an exponential thermodynamic curve
that aims and trends towards zero, beyond our view,
beyond the horizon, touching infinity itself.
And here's the craziest part: the space itself where
this is all taking place, is accelerating its' expansion.
Like living in a slow motion explosion on a spec of dust
Want to live forever? Tough. Cos even if you could stop your body from growing old and dying, the planet is going to get too warm and nothing will be able to live on it. Then the sun will expand and destroy the planet. But even if you could leave the planet, theres no where close by to get too that wont have the same problems later on. But even if you could get to another solar system, same thing happens again. But then eventually the universe runs out of hydrogen and its fucked. Or the universe gets spread too thin, and its fucked. Or some fucking quantum field takes a shit, and creates a bubble of true vacuum that expands at the speed of light and everything's fucked.
Im fucked, youre fucked, the earth is fucked, the solar system is fucked, the galaxy is fucked, the local cluster is fucked, its all just fucked. One way or another. At some point nothing exists except an endless absence of anything. Not even nothing will exist...
And people say there are no good arguments for weekly drug fuelled sex orgies...
This always blows my mind to think that we are here and we are experiencing this life and in the grand scheme of things its so fleeting, but that it all came from somewhere and its all going to die eventually. Could it really be true that there will just be nothing for eternity after this? Or are we not just a random chance in a previous eternity. Can we ever really know or is it all just our best guess?
Its humbling but also makes me feel even more like life is important and should be taken seriously.
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I just had a moment of what is everything
I don't know how to explain it but from nothing to something to nothing again but no why
Its the whole "why is there anything at all" thing for me. Like why is there any energy to have made all of this. Couldn't there just have never been anything at all? Nothing for anyone to experience. Its so hard to perceive and think about but its absolutely fascinating.
The 'why' is us.
Without consciousness in the universe, there might as well not be a universe.
Not having consciousness might be the best thing that could happen to a universe. Just everything existing, without desire or suffering.
With a universe that peaceful, there might as well not be us.
What would be the point of a universe if there was nothing experiencing it?
Who or what is it "best" for?
What is the "point" of this universe?
Us. Conscious creatures humans or otherwise. We are the genesis of "point".
By analogy, what's the point of a sun, or a planet, being a thing? It just is, right? A mechanism of nature.
Maybe we are do, but it's undeniable tjsybwe experience reality. Experience is the only thing they can have a point, by definition. This is simply axiomatic.
There is no knowing a universe without knowers, so whether something just is, absent is, is a nonsense question. Sense to whom, after all?
Typically something a consciousness would say.
It's a cool axiom though. I mean if there's nothing conscious to know the universe exists, like, so what? A universe needs life to matter to that life. Intrinsic mattering makes no sense. Things have to matter to other things that have the capacity to want or need. But without consciousness, those things might as well be like calculations in a computer.
to matter Why should it?
to that life Tautology
if a tree falls in yhe forest and no one is around to hear, does it make a sound?
Nope, only matters if we hear it.
Indeed. But it's an axiom, not a tautology.
The cosmos can't ponder itself so excuse us for being self centered lol
We are the cosmos pondering itself.
Carl Sagan said it more or this way and he was right.
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Honestly, this factoid is the closest thing to a real Total Perspective Vortex in hat I’ve ever felt.
We're doing a pretty bang up job of making that one second as stupid and painful as possible.
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