Wherever there is matter in an ever-thinning universe, there might be an entire cosmologically-sized era dominated by an entirely different chemistry to what we have now.

  • thebestaquaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Isn’t the heat death of the universe essentially just the statement that because of the second law of thermodynamics all energy will eventually end up as heat? In other words: Entropy always wins in the end.

    That is a bit different from stating that everything will be torn infinitely far apart, isn’t it?

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Direct from the wiki on the heat death of the universe:

      If the curvature of the universe is hyperbolic or flat, or if dark energy is a positive cosmological constant, the universe will continue expanding forever, and a heat death is expected to occur,[3] with the universe cooling to approach equilibrium at a very low temperature after a long time period.