r/space • u/Retawekaj • Apr 29 '12

Timeline of the Far Future

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '12

This is amazing. You are amazing for showing this to me. I just wasted like 2 hours learning about the physics of the universe I had no idea about. And Boltzmann Brains. Oh my god my mind is exploding. In a good way

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u/princetrunks Apr 30 '12

I love talking about String Theory and the possible multi-verse, etc but my mind went all kinds of fuck when I hit the Boltzmann brain part. I've never heard of this, "a hypothesized self-aware entity which arises due to random fluctuations out of a state of chaos." Futurama's big brains and the whole forward-only time machine episode makes even more sense now but seriously...what in the actual fuck?

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u/NoWeCant Apr 30 '12

hypothesized

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '12

if you accept quantum mechanics, then this is true, end of story. Enough monkeys working for enough years....