wizard@fedinsfw.app to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoWhat we perceive as time is an entropy gradient caused by the expansion of the universemessage-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down14
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareWhat we perceive as time is an entropy gradient caused by the expansion of the universewizard@fedinsfw.app to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareFUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoSo then when the expansion slows and the universe starts contracting (again?), will time then reverse as entropy reverses?
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 days agoI’m pretty sure nobody thinks the Big Crunch is going to happen, considering the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·4 days agoI sorta think its still possible. Im not 100% sold gravity is a constant on massive scales.
minus-squareBlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoExcept it doesn’t seem like it will ever contract. If universe were to stop or contract, it would collapse into black hole
minus-squareFUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoThe moment before the big bang, the universe was a singularity similar to a black hole though. In fact, our universe shares several properties with black holes (mass/energy can never escape it, for example)
So then when the expansion slows and the universe starts contracting (again?), will time then reverse as entropy reverses?
I’m pretty sure nobody thinks the Big Crunch is going to happen, considering the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
I sorta think its still possible. Im not 100% sold gravity is a constant on massive scales.
Except it doesn’t seem like it will ever contract. If universe were to stop or contract, it would collapse into black hole
The moment before the big bang, the universe was a singularity similar to a black hole though. In fact, our universe shares several properties with black holes (mass/energy can never escape it, for example)