Cosmic End Hypothesis

Hypotheses about the end of the universe may seem useless or even unrealistic to humanity today, but this is not the case. The development of a technological civilization is inseparable from the development of basic science, and a correct cosmological model is both a catalyst and a guide for this development.

The cosmological model is one such "stone" in the saying "crossing the river by feeling for stones." It can inspire scientists in many fields, provide them with references for their ways of thinking, and even allow them to deduce what kind of applied technology a civilization should possess at its current stage.

Just like this unfinished Particle Collider, without a cosmological model, humanity would not know or have thought of using it to create a universe with asymmetric asymmetry broken by the Strong Interaction Force, and to use it to study the Grand Unified Theory.

Regarding hypotheses about the end of the universe, there are currently three mainstream views within Human Civilization: the Big Rip, the Big Crunch, and the Big Freeze, also known as the heat death theory.

As previously discussed, the heat death theory comprises five phases: the primordial period, the star-strewn period, the degenerate period, the black hole period, and the dark period. This cosmological model is derived from the third law of thermodynamics. The primordial and star-strewn periods are largely similar to other cosmological models and will not be elaborated upon further.

The third stage of degradation in the heat death theory states that the energy of stars in the universe is exhausted, and all the stars eventually turn into lifeless, dead nuclear matter in the form of dwarf stars, Neutron Star, and black holes. The stars in the sky no longer shine, and the universe gradually falls into darkness.

Moving forward to the fourth stage, the black hole era, the only remaining energy source in the universe is the energy from the evaporation of black holes. All surviving Sentient Life at this stage may end up like homeless people, crowding around the last embers of the dying black holes to absorb the last bit of warmth until the black holes have completely evaporated.

As for the final fifth stage, the Dark Ages, as the name suggests, even black holes have evaporated completely, and even protons themselves have completely decayed. Only a floating sea of photons and a thin soup of weakly interacting particles remain in the universe, namely neutrinos, electrons, and their antiparticles.

Of course, this idea also faces insurmountable difficulties. Although the size of Positronium Atom is comparable to that of an ordinary atom, the diameter of Positronium Atom during the Dark Ages would reach 3.26 x 10^12 million light-years, which is millions of times larger than the visible universe that humans have calculated in the current Stars Era.

So even if life were to experience a final spring during the Dark Ages, these new life forms would be as large as the entire universe. Of course, by then the universe would have expanded to an even greater limit, easily accommodating these new life forms. However, even so, because the Positronium Atom are so large, any chemical reactions based on these "atoms" would occur on an astonishing scale.

One can imagine that it would be a universe completely different from human understanding.

At this point, the universe may experience its last spring, because if we move further back in time, we will reach absolute thermal equilibrium, and the universe will eventually become dead, a state of heat death, the Big Crunch, Absolute Zero, a state of complete stillness without any energy fluctuations.

Scientists speculate that the cosmic environment during this phase of the Dark Ages may have been composed of a new type of "atom" called Positronium, which consists of electrons and positrons orbiting each other.

Scientists who hold this hypothesis believe that these "atoms" composed of electrons and Anti-Electron might have been a fundamental condition for the formation of new Sentient Life during this dark period.

They even believe that there may be a life form based on Positronium in the current universe. Moreover, due to the cosmic environment, the Positronium of the Stars Era were not as large as those of the Dark Age. Therefore, the life forms formed on this basis would not be as large as the entire universe, but rather like the life forms composed of atoms in the Stars Era.

Of course, there are differences. Based on the theory of the Dark Age in the Heat Death Hypothesis and the characteristics of Positronium, scientists speculate that life forms born from atoms formed by Positronium must be completely different from life forms that humans currently understand. They are very likely to be some kind of life form that is naturally adapted to the cosmic environment.

In order to gain wider acceptance for their views, these scientists also brought out the Awakeners and Precursor to support their arguments, because the Awakeners and the Rhomboid Crystal representing the Precursor had spoken to humanity about the term "Group Technological Civilization."

Although neither of them explicitly stated that there are Individual Civilization in the universe, if there are no Individual Civilization or if they have never seen Individual Civilization, then there is no need to add the term "group" in front of technological civilizations.

These scientists believe that the "Individual Civilization" hidden in the Rhomboid Crystal language representing the Awakeners and Precursor may be a life form based on Positronium Atom.

Of course, what kind of life, or even Sentient Life, based on Positronium Atom would exist in the Stars Era universe is unknown to humankind, since we have never seen it. But there is no doubt that the heat death cosmological model has indeed provided scientists with such a line of thought, allowing humanity to theoretically accept the possibility of the existence of Individual Civilization.

Therefore, it is clear that improving cosmological models is not unrealistic or useless; on the contrary, it is very important, but ordinary people who are not involved in scientific research are unaware of this.

Moreover, a correct cosmological model might allow humanity to deduce the so-called destination of the Great Voyage. Human scientists believe that the Great Voyage, which forced Level Six Civilization to make this choice, must be related to the fate of the universe or some ultimate answer.

If this is the end of the universe, then what will become of life and civilization?

Scientists believe that behind every Cosmic End Hypothesis lies a direct influence on the behavior of advanced civilizations—or perhaps more accurately, God-Level Civilization.

If the end of the universe is as predicted by the Heat Death Hypothesis, then in the end no Sentient Life will be able to escape it, and even during the Dark Ages, no civilization will be able to survive in the form of the Stars Era. So what will those God-Level Civilization that see such an ending do?

Are they transforming themselves into a form adapted to the environment, barely reaching Absolute Zero, using pure consciousness to eke out a living by sacrificing the speed of thought? Or are they finding another way to prevent the heat death of the universe?

The heat death that ended the Big Freeze is indeed chilling, but it is a problem that every life form that understands the universe must face. Perhaps only Death's End this outcome.

Death's End; death can be defined as the final cessation of processing all information. For any intelligent species in the universe, from the moment they begin to understand the fundamental laws of physics, they will be forced to recognize that any Sentient Life the universe is highly likely to harbor will eventually die.

Fortunately, Sentient Life in the Stars Era still has time. They may spend a long time searching for answers to whether the physics of this universe allows them to continue to live.

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