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Holiday Message: Reflections on Immortality

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

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Infinite Baby Universes and Implications for Immortality

Under certain conditions, a universe can expand and have its own arrow of time, leading to a temporary period where life can exist in a 'baby universe' before it returns to its quiescent state. This scenario suggests an infinite number of such baby universes, explaining the early universe's low entropy and implying immortality. Although most of the universe will be dead and empty, there will always be future beings, thoughts, love, and caring in the future of our universe, offering a sense of perpetuity and hope.

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