(September 2, 2015 at 10:32 pm)Qwraith Wrote:Quote:Shuffle
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 infinite in the sense that it will reach an infinite 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.
But the thing is, it can't spread to infinity, because there is not an infinite amount of energy. There are no signs of slowing down because the only time frame we have been in this universe is so crazily small, that we have seen pretty much nothing happen, let alone the continuing results of the big bang.
Nothing can happen after the heat death. If there is complete entropy, nothing can move, come into existence, or be a different temperature than EVERYTHING else in the universe. Exactly how can you live in those conditions.