/sci/ - Science & Math

Is there anything wrong with it? It gets made fun of a lot, but it doesn't seem to actually be bad in theory. It's essentially just hyping up what humankind will already do in the future (if they don't JUST themselves to extinction) but sooner than reasonably expected.

Do you agree with crazy Kurzweilan timelines or think it'd take much longer?
If I understand it correctly, the purpose is to eliminate aging to allow civilization to think on the scope of longer timescales? In essence, if you have reason to worry about more than 80 years as an individual, you will take more effort in ecology/space colonization/longer term existential hazards for humanity.

And speaking of long time scales since I didn't get an answer in a previous thread: Do protons decay, or are we just trying to figure out how to make them decay to fit a Theory of Everything? I've only seen articles that say it either doesn't happen or happens 10^11 times further in the future than the universe is old.

Also do you guys think our current model for the creation and fate of the universe is as good as it'll get, or will we eventually return to an ageless universe theory?