(July 11, 2015 at 6:11 pm)IATIA Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 6:05 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: What scientific evidence suggests that everything will die? I know of no such evidence. Nor do I accept your eschatological premise. You sound like a religious nut.
You can't possibly know whether you'll ever die or not. And you won't ever know know, either, obviously.
Everybody dies. Myself, probably of old age. Everybody else, when the sun dies. The universe is expanding at an accelerated rate which means that eventually it will not have enough localized energy to do any work, so no new stars and everything will just cool down and shut down. Everything ends eventually.
You might not die of old age. You might get treatment or medication to extend your life indefinitely.
Everyone might not die when the sun "dies". We might prevent that from happening in the future, or we might protect ourselves from it happening while at the same time inventing a way to sustain ourselves without the help of natural sunlight, or we might even travel to a new sun. You just don't know, do you?
Is that definitely the case, about the universe? Is it so sure a thing that there's absolutely no arguing about it? I doubt that.
