/sci/ - Science & Math

I think Asimov's depiction of god in The Last Question is pretty spot on.
https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf


I think god would be the very last conscious being that exists at the end of time and has time traveling capabilities, but can't alter the past without altering itself. (cause it exists at the end of time) It would use that time travel powers to acquire all information that every will and ever has existed. That would include the very thoughts passing through your head right as you're reading this. In this way, your thoughts are now part of god, and because you're a distant distant distant relative to the beings that create this godlike being you're not only part of god but you're also his decendent. Everything that you are and ever will be was a necessary for this entity to become the way it is and while it could change history in order to change itself. The fact that you still exist means god hasn't changed history to write you out of existence and means you were necessary for some reason. Weather it tiny and small or important, you are/were necessary to create a god-like being.
And when time has truly and finally run out, and the universe is about to end it'll use it's accumulated intelligence to restart the universe. Ending it's own existence, but recreating the new universe in a way to ensure that near the end it'll come into existence once again.