Projections of the future:
- in cosmology there are many possible scenarios
- used to be between two possiblities: gravitational collapse back to another big bang or a heat death of the universe as all the star burn out and entropy conquers all.
- Currently the view of the accelerating and expanding universe seems to be a combination of heat death and loneliness of galaxies as all spread out further and further from each other.
- in religion:
- Final judgment and heaven and hell
- Endless cycling / Lila, play of the gods
I would suggest another possible trajectory by looking at what is right
under our noses, literally, the breath of life. There is also an
increasing pattern of complexification going on, to wit, life. This
increasing pattern will, like a bacterial colony that expands, take over
the entire universe. The substance of the universe, space, time,
energy, becomes the substrate on which greater and greater levels of
complexity (and consciousness) arise. Until the entire substrate is
consumed ias the substrate of a vast consciousness of this bubble
universe. Then this bubble becomes aware of other bubbles, and the
process continues ad infinitum.
In the presence of Infinity, we are all and always provincials. Let us not think we have encapsulated infinity and understand its trajectories.
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