RE: Science Saved My Soul
November 7, 2010 at 2:16 pm
(This post was last modified: November 7, 2010 at 2:17 pm by Welsh cake.)
(November 7, 2010 at 12:53 pm)Tiberius Wrote: There wasn't anything to refute though. He accepts that the universe will only support life for another 30 billion years. The point of his "are you fucking kidding me?" was to argue that 30 billion years is a ridiculous amount of time, and that people shouldn't be depressed about it, since it won't affect them. 30 billion years is more than twice the time the universe has even been around, so yeah, in response to people who think it is sad that it won't support life for more than that...are you fucking kidding me?!?Granted I can't speak for philhellenes, my take or interpretation on his video's abrupt closing statement was that he presented a rhetorical question, and nothing more, not asserting the opposite is true, but that universe is actually infinite/transfinite therefore life existing within it will carry on indefinitely as well rather than just a "mere" thirty billion years.
And as for forecasting the age of the current universe it thought that White Dwarfs will still be around 100 quintillion years from now, far older than the cosmos is today, and eventually the stellar remnants will become hypothetical "black dwarfs" i.e. a dead stars, but none of this tells us anything about biological life still existing or not.
This is why I wished he had been a little more transparent from the get-go and gave a better explanation as to what his thoughts on the fate of the universe were.
