It's one of my favourites too, if only for the inclusion of the most mind-blowing footnote I think I've ever read:
It's one of my favourites too, if only for the inclusion of the most mind-blowing footnote I think I've ever read:
Although listed in years for convenience, the numbers at this point are so vast that their digits would remain unchanged regardless of which conventional units they were listed in, be they nanoseconds or star lifespans.
Its one of those things where the numbers are so big they stop having a real meaning. If I understand the physics of it (which I probably don't), time itself doesn't have much meaning so far in...
Its one of those things where the numbers are so big they stop having a real meaning. If I understand the physics of it (which I probably don't), time itself doesn't have much meaning so far in the future, at least not as we would recognise. Weird things happen to the arrow of time when entropy reaches a peak.
If in the end the only thing left in the universe is photons, and photons travel at light speed not experiencing time at all, is there really any time?
If in the end the only thing left in the universe is photons, and photons travel at light speed not experiencing time at all, is there really any time?
This is one of my favorite wikipedia pages. I always wondered how someone came up with it.
It's one of my favourites too, if only for the inclusion of the most mind-blowing footnote I think I've ever read:
Its one of those things where the numbers are so big they stop having a real meaning. If I understand the physics of it (which I probably don't), time itself doesn't have much meaning so far in the future, at least not as we would recognise. Weird things happen to the arrow of time when entropy reaches a peak.
If in the end the only thing left in the universe is photons, and photons travel at light speed not experiencing time at all, is there really any time?
The passing reference to Boltzmann Brains has set me off on a wiki rabbit hole