Universe
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Some people thought that the
universe
would recollapse in the future.
But if there's dark energy, and the dark energy does not go away, the
universe
is just going to keep expanding forever and ever and ever.
Space may be finite or infinite, but because the
universe
is accelerating, there are parts of it we cannot see and never will see.
A precisely similar calculation by Hawking and Gary Gibbons showed that if you have dark energy in empty space, then the whole
universe
radiates.
And so even though the
universe
will last forever, and ordinary matter and radiation will dilute away, there will always be some radiation, some thermal fluctuations, even in empty space.
So what this means is that the
universe
is like a box of gas that lasts forever.
He said, well, entropy increases because there are many, many more ways for the
universe
to be high entropy, rather than low entropy.
So Boltzmann says, look, you could start with a
universe
that was in thermal equilibrium.
He didn't know about the expansion of the
universe.
So if you imagine a very, very big universe, an infinitely big universe, with randomly bumping into each other particles, there will occasionally be small fluctuations in the lower entropy states, and then they relax back.
Maybe our
universe
is just one of those things that happens from time to time.
Carl Sagan once famously said that "in order to make an apple pie, you must first invent the universe."
We therefore conclude the
universe
is not a fluctuation."
If the
universe
is not a fluctuation, why did the early
universe
have a low entropy?
Here is the
universe
that we tell you about, versus the
universe
that really exists.
The
universe
is expanding for the last 10 billion years or so.
But we now know enough about the future of the
universe
to say a lot more.
We will live in a
universe
with nothing in it but black holes.
So even though the
universe
lasts forever, there's only a finite number of things that can possibly happen in the
universe.
Number one: If the
universe
lasts for 10 to the 10 to the 120 years, why are we born in the first 14 billion years of it, in the warm, comfortable afterglow of the Big Bang?
This is a brute fact about the
universe
that you should learn to accept and stop asking questions.
Or maybe the Big Bang is not the beginning of the
universe.
Maybe the
universe
comes out of a universal chicken.
Maybe there is something that naturally, through the growth of the laws of physics, gives rise to
universe
like ours in low entropy configurations.
We will all believe that our little
universe
is just a small part of a much larger multiverse.
But we've been thinking as a human race about what the
universe
was like, why it came to be in the way it did for many, many years.
Everything in the
universe
wears out."
The excitement from using multi-tracking, the way I did in the piece you will hear next, comes from the attempt to build and create a whole
universe
with many diverse layers, all generated from a single source.
But the story of how we came to understand the
universe
is just as much a story of listening as it is by looking.
This is a a highly condensed clump of neutral matter, spinning in the distant
universe.
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