(September 29, 2017 at 4:21 am)bennyboy Wrote: I wonder what the ultimate output of evolution might be, in say another 10 billions years. Will life end up doing battle with entropy, creating a kind of homeostatic mechanism which fights off heat death itself?
There are a few possible scenarios based on the structure of the Universe which has been brought up elsewhere.
Entropy seems like an inescapable arrangement of how everything goes towards less organization (order) and more chaos (disorder). Eventually, all the stars will have used up their fusion "fuel" and become either black holes, neutron stars, or dense masses of iron with a thin layer of hydrogen or whatever arrangement based on their mass and slowly cool down while the black holes evaporate extremely slowly via Hawking radiation, and the life-giving light will fade away into disparate particles, never interacting with anything as the stars are pulled apart by "dark energy", whatever that is.
I don't think life on this planet will be around long enough to create a sort of intergalactic civilization(s).
