The Omega Point (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Dyson's Reversal for the Big Crunch Scenario
In Dyson's scenario, as the universe expanded and cooled more to say half that prior temperature, they could expend half of the remainder. As with Zeno's paradox, they never run out of energy, but they keep on thinking. Each period they must go slower from an external perspective, as they slowly use their power to think, but they never runout. The subjective time is stretched over even longer eons, as the universes cools ever more,. But they have an infinity, or near infinity at least, of thought and experience - so it hardly matters to them that the clock runs faster outside.
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