How Do You Get Over Death?

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Here's the relevant article: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html



Sorry for the late reply: Why would heat death make it impossible to live forever? All that stuff, granted to a lesser degree than what would entail with an inifinite life, happens during anyone's life. Loved ones can die within your lifetime, disasters can happen in your lifetime; everybody dies.
Life is suffering to be sure, but that doesn't mean I'd rather end it all than get to experience the remnants of pleasure and happiness in between.

Yeahhhhhhh.... um I am still not getting the whole flat=infinite thing.

How would the heat death NOT make it impossible to live forever. It is CALLED the heat DEATH. DEATH ends LIFE.

The universe is flat because the measurements taken of the CMB suggest that the angular distance from our instruments to points on the CMB are about 1 degree across. This means that the path taken between these points is straight. If the universe were curved the path would be curved. This video explains it better than I can:

https://youtu.be/zqb1lSdqRZY

Further observations of the density of the CMB suggest that the most distant galaxies are moving away from one another at an increasing rate. The universe is inifinite in the sense that it will reach an inifinite volume because it doesn't show any signs of slowing down.

If mainstream science is indicative of anything, it's the misappropriation of common terms to make concepts more readily understandable. Just because it's called "heat death" doesn't mean it has anything to do with the actual death of life. Of course, life as we understand it, can't occur without energy, but the heat death doesn't say anything about the prospect of humanity somehow conserving that energy. Sure, it's just wild speculation, but it seems absurd to suggest life couldn't necessarily continue after the heat death given that we don't understand everything about the universe, humanity's capabilities, or life for that matter.