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The Omega Point (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Big Crunch Parallel Cosmology

Omega Point draws its notion from the possibility that we might see the ghosts of long dead black holes in the cosmic microwave background radiation. The reasoning is that time moves slower the faster you go as you approach light speed, but at the speed of light itself no time passes. For photons, particles of light, they experience no time themselves and most will never be reabsorbed by other matter. And if all matter including black holes eventually disappears as it turns into photons, then eventually all the mass or energy left in the universe is photons which experience no time in their frame of reference.

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