(December 21, 2014 at 11:38 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Never really bought into the idea that an infinite life would automatically be an unenjoyable one. Or that things have value just because they come to an end.
Take a look on the flipside of the coin. If life is finite, isn't everything we do ultimately worthless and meaningless? We won't be around in a few years to experience things, it only depends on your outlook as to whether that adds value or detracts value. In the end, nothing matters. Whether we live for an eternity or for a few seconds. The truth is, we live in the moment. We don't live for time. We live in it.
As the universe expands, it continually dilutes itself with more and more vacuum. And it's only 13+ billion years old now. It can continue to expand for trillions taken to the power of trillions years to come. All the while dissipating itself into an ever more perfect and seemingly infinite void.
The universe is erasing itself, and it is erasing itself permanently, and completely, and infinitely. Even black holes are not eternal, they dissipate (slowly) and the weak and meager photons they dissipate into will experience more and more redshifting as the universe continues to expand, even in that dissipated and frigid age, and they will be erased too as the redshifting increases and robs them of their minute energies even further.
Enormous tracts of space, that dwarf in size anything we can imagine now, will be totally empty, separations between individual photons will staggeringly huge, and the expansion continues, and continues, and continues . . . . .
