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#308 - Brian Greene - The Mind-bending Physics Of Eternity

Modern Wisdom

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The Ultimate Fate of the Universe: Big Freeze or Heat Death?

Exploring the potential eternal expansion of the universe towards extreme coldness, balancing between the big freeze and the heat death. From black hole decay to infinite particle arrangements in infinite space, the chapter unravels complex concepts of the universe's far future and the challenges in reprogramming human intuition about infinity and timescales.

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