/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11202351

>MWI is correct, and what will be the longest-lived version of you is trapped in a unique, quasi-solipsistic timeline
>black holes are localized distortions in time/space, not fucking shortcuts to distant galaxies or silly shit like that
>no biological human will ever travel to another star
>now that Dark Energy is debunked, pic related is truer than ever

>>11114154

>not knowing about the Omega Point singularity
>not knowing that we'll have to end the universe for God to manifest himself

Vacuum decay and baryon annihilation are your friends!

>>10111739

Read this.

>>9523214
>Plenty of weird stuff that could be artificial but would require confirmation.

It might surprise you that the book on this situation was written back in the 1990s.

Read it...nothing surprises me anymore.

>>9360116

Read pic related and prepare to have your world view permanently shaken.

Haven't viewed life the same since I read it 20 years ago.

>>8922964

Correct.

http://129.81.170.14/~tipler/wired.html

>>8793546

You can then simulate anything, real or otherwise. Even God.

Pic related is the seminal work on the concept.

>>8793550

True. If some guy in Michigan invents a working Alcubierre drive in his garage next Friday, just in time to stop an invasion force from TRAPPIST-1, we'll know we've been living in a SF simulation all this time.

>>8654248
>>8654258
>>8654282

Cite where this occurred in a lab.

Miller Urey only generated the "promising soup" I mentioned, NOT "life". And it's a mighty big leap from fragile RNA to robust DNA.

And there's also the weirder question of why a self-replicating substance should occur at all, and why the universe isn't just a boring arrangement of chemicals (or even elementary particles) doing nothing interesting (the far more likely scenario), which narrows the choices down to God or MWI...

And MWI inevitably results in a God-like entity coming into existence...(pic related)...

>>8654248

Cite where this occurred in a lab.

Pic related only generated the "promising soup" I mentioned, NOT "life".

And there's also the weirder question of why a self-replicating substance should occur at all, and why the universe isn't just a boring arrangement of chemicals (or even elementary particles) doing nothing interesting (the far more likely scenario), which narrows the choices down to God or MWI...

And MWI inevitably results in a God-like entity coming into existence...(pic related)...

>>8515459
>I'll leave these links:

PROTIP: Ignore those for now...the anthropic principle blows those away...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

Atheists lean on the AP to explain away fine-tuning, cosmological constants, DNA, etc. but from the standpoint of a purely godless universe devoid of "supernatural" effects, there's a troubling workaround, and pic related homes in on it.

This is, if we live in a multiverse (required by AP), AND it possesses Max Tegmark's four levels (quantum effects leading to a Many-Worlds scenario) then it's inevitable an AI intelligence vastly superior to ours will eventually arise (any other option leads an intelligence inexorably to extinction via universal heat death) with nearly God-like powers. That God-like AI will find a way to achieve immortality.

(In pic related, Tipler believed that it would exploit the "Big Crunch", but the BC has fallen heavily into disfavor in cosmological science circles...this doesn't rule out another method, however, as a sufficiently advanced AI would be able to discern the fabric of the universe itself and find that other method)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Classification_schemes

Further, such an AI would be capable of spawning new universes, potentially with programming "back doors", that would allow a guy like Jesus to exist. Tipler explored this concept in the pic related's sequel, The Physics of Christianity.

tl;dr: Read pic related and it's sequel, and my links. You're better off looking *into the future* and not the past, Christfriend.

>>8285166

>implying that, once we merge our consciousness with an AI, achieving post-Singularity levels of awareness and problem solutions, we won't find out how to overcome entropy, by either forcing the universe into a "Big Crunch" or creating a new universe entirely.