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#137 – Alex Filippenko: Supernovae, Dark Energy, Aliens & the Expanding Universe
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Heat Death of the Universe?
The Inquisition placed Galileo under house arrest. That gave him time to publish his great work, right? The Principia. It was based in part on Galileo's observations of balls rolling down inclined planes. And so Newton, of course, very much used Galileo's observations. Let me ask the old Russian overly philosophical question about death. How do you think human civilization will come to an end if we avoid the near term issues we're having? Will it be our sun burning out? Will it being comets? Oh, okay. Will it be what is it? Do you think we have a shot at reaching the heat death of the universe?
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