Technological Immortality

[LostLocke]

And, from what I understand so far, the current idea is that the universe won't collapse.
Rather, it will expand until it rips itself apart.

Hi, LostLocke. Some have suggested that the current acceleration of the universe's expansion due to the positive cosmological constant would appear to obviate the Omega Point. However, Profs. Krauss and Turner point out that "there is no set of cosmological observations we can perform that will unambiguously allow us to determine what the ultimate destiny of the Universe will be." (See Lawrence M. Krauss and Michael S. Turner, "Geometry and Destiny", General Relativity and Gravitation, Vol. 31, No. 10 [Oct. 1999], pp. 1453-1459.) While cosmological observations cannot tell us what the ultimate fate of the universe will be, the known laws of physics themselves can, as the universe is forced to end in finite proper time in order for unitarity to remain unviolated.

No one claims we can know for absolute certainty what the ultimate fate of the universe will be. However, current observations, including the laws of physics, indicate the universe will end in or through its continued expansion, not from a collapse.
And PS, the universe isn't 'forced' to do anything. It does what it does and it's our job to figure out what that is. It's not our 'right' to tell the universe what we expect it to do.