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18 - Could a Hyper-Advanced Civilization Resist Dark Energy?

Why This Universe?

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The Future of the Universe

I'm really excited about the possibility likely or otherwise that some, you know, civilization will reach the kinds of heights that we're describing here. I have no idea what it'll be like, but it will be incredible to the beings who take it in. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy is always going to increase. As that happens, we move towards an equilibrium where anything that we would call life or really anything we might think of as interesting ceases to take place.

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