[HN Gopher] Let's Kill the Universe
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       Let's Kill the Universe
        
       Author : Quimzy
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-11-19 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | saulpw wrote:
       | I remember when I was 15, I had the distinct thought that I would
       | rather be historically famous for being evil, than unknown and/or
       | forgotten. 30 years later I feel a bit differently about the
       | whole thing.
       | 
       | Ego is a helluva drug. "How can we win at the universe", indeed.
        
       | molticrystal wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay#Existential...
        
       | TheBrokenRail wrote:
       | This is so silly. You hear about how entropy always increases..
       | and you response is to make it increase faster? All to spite a
       | theoretical simulation creator? Sorry, but I don't want to kill
       | the universe, that I live in mind you, out of spite.
        
       | remisharrock wrote:
       | I just read "l'anomalie" from Herve le Tellier, Reading that post
       | made me think of that book, I recommend it.
        
       | krono wrote:
       | We are entropy incarnate. Not the most effective vector the
       | universe has managed to come up with by far, but perhaps, given
       | enough time, we might be able help move things along just a tiny
       | bit faster.
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | Almost expected a byline of "Thanos".
        
       | conviencefee999 wrote:
       | Uh, for this author I'd advise seeking some form of help.
        
         | layer8 wrote:
         | They just turned 15 (or 16?), I'd say they're geek-level normal
         | for that age.
        
         | kushan2020 wrote:
         | Why ?
        
       | layer8 wrote:
       | This kind of "reality shock" will probably occur more and more
       | often in the future, as knowledge about how the universe works
       | becomes more established and widespread. Until the other galaxies
       | recede behind the cosmological horizon, I guess, and important
       | parts of that knowledge become more of a myth.
        
       | smitty1e wrote:
       | These concerns on the universal timescale are so outside the
       | scope of our existence as to be purely theoretical.
       | 
       | It's akin to an oxygen atom fretting the solar system.
       | 
       | Do what you want, but I say: chill the CHILL out.
        
       | ithkuil wrote:
       | This mechanism of increasing entropy faster than normal already
       | exists. It's called life.
       | 
       | The purpose of life is to hydrogenate carbon dioxide.
       | 
       | Left to its own devices, carbon dioxide won't get hydrogenated,
       | although that's it's lowest energy level. By creating a chemical
       | pathways towards the lowest energy levels of this (and other)
       | molecules, life is indeed helping us to reach the heat death of
       | the universe sooner.
        
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