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The Omega point!

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  • 04-05-2009 8:07pm
    #1
    dalkener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭


    Just curious if anyone has read Marcus Chowns 'The never ending days of being dead'?

    Would like to know other peoples ideas on the omega point when/if the universe contracts to the big crunch and the possibility that intelligent beings will have close to infinite 'processing' power and may run simulations of the universe thus everyone and everything that has ever been will be run again.... I know its an out there scenario but it keeps the mind ticking over ;-)

    And, therefore could we ...in fact, be GOD??:eek::eek:


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    Overblood
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    It's just pure speculation/sci-fi.

    Also, how can any being, intelligent or not, live in the big crunch and run computer programs?


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    cavedave
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    I only know this theory from Deutsch's "the fabric of reality". The infinite computation idea is interesting but its hard for us to imagine the aims of a civilisation that far advanced from us. Imagine the makers of the medieval cathedrals who were told about our current abilities. They would probably see us building mile high churches and such. Sci-fi that far in advance tells us more about what we think then about what the future might be.

    That and it looks like the big crunch wont happen.


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    dalkener
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    ah, the big crunch! is there enough dark matter and is it repulsive or not!
    I know its off topic but its good to know other people are thinking out there!


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    Zillah
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    Wouldn't you need infinite matter and energy to have infinite processing power?


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    cavedave
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    Zillah

    Wouldn't you need infinite matter and energy to have infinite processing power?
    As far as i remember the messiness involved in a singularity at the big crunch would provide near infinite energy and near infinite matter density. I'm not a physicist so I don't know enough to rate this theory.


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    Zillah
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    "Near infinite" is a nonsensical term...


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    AtomicHorror
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    AFAIK the big crunch hypothesis is dead in the water since they showed that inflation is actually in a state of acceleration.


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    cavedave
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    Zillah "Near infinite" is a nonsensical term...

    If you have a better phrase for what happens as you approach a singularity then that is the one that should be used.


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