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70 | Katie Mack on How the Universe Will End

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Importance of a Baby Universe

I feel like that's kind of cold comfort because we're still dead. There was this old paper by Freeman Dyson where he claimed that you could live forever in an eternal universe. And I think it kind of gave him some sense of hope, and now it's like, well, no. It doesn't work for a linearly expanding universe. Yeah. If you can bubble off a completely separate universe, a baby universe, then those could continue to be created toward the future. Maybe we're even the baby of somebody else's universe.

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