• Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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    15 days ago

    Big Bounce is cool, but heat death isn’t such a bad thing after all because - and I’m no astrophysicist - I’ve always had a pet theory that a universe as complex as ours could emerge spontaneously from a void of nothing given quantum fluctuations and infinite time.

    • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      15 days ago

      I think that’s the going string theory explanation these days. I like big bounce because it also explains the initial low-entropy state of the universe really elegantly, which gives you all sorts of nice things like the arrow of time.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      14 days ago

      a universe as complex as ours could emerge spontaneously from a void of nothing

      It wasn’t complex when it emerged though, all that happened later.