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by nonameiguess 1916 days ago
Immortality would be a possible goal if heat death or big crunch wasn't the inevitable fate of everything.
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faeyanpiraat 1916 days ago
If you leave stuff as-is then you are probably right.

But what if technology can solve that issue aswell?

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adrianN 1916 days ago
That would assume that physics as we understand it is fundamentally wrong. You might as well hope for an eternal afterlife in the garden of Eden.
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faeyanpiraat 1915 days ago
How many times have our understanding of physics have been fundamentally wrong in the past?

What is the chance it will never happen again?

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adrianN 1915 days ago
The chances that the laws of thermodynamics are fundamentally wrong is pretty low. Asimov has a nice essay on this topic: https://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.ht...
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