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

Why This Universe?

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Introduction

This is the third and final episode of Why This Universe's mini series on life in the universe. We're going to be talking about this one very special scientific paper written by Dan Hooper. It tries to address a question that I've never even considered before with regards to civilizations in the far future. And this is the question of how a hyper advanced civilization would cope with and try to resist the expansion of space due to dark energy.

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