Civilizations at the End of Time – How Intelligence Survives the Death of the Universe

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2. I love the long specials! Been with the channel for about 7 years now! Ahhh the good old days before the AI slop the tube pedals these days.

3. The monster was not Frankenstein, Frankenstein was the doctor. The cat was not Schrödinger, the cat was Galileo.

4. Quadrillions of years to form a simple thought. My goodness ✨

5. That speech impediment was what drew me to this channel. I like space and physics, but you are what kept me coming back.

6. YouTube comment. Thanks for your videos.

7. Iron Star era shouldn't be difficult to survive: Something you maybe overlook….CONSTANTLY Atomic 'Recycling'.
   You don't just let your equipment go thru decay until its dust. You constantly recycle it (Building it from Elementary Particles —>Hadrons –> Atoms –> Molecules). Thus even if 'Proton Decay' exist… doesn't matter. You're making new ones That'll last 10^100 years, before it can risk 1x decay cycle

   ANY civilization reaching Kardeshev Omega-Minus (true mastery of the elementary levels of universe) could do this w/ prob low-med effort.

   At such point you'd be long past our current (ROI, $$$ vs Time/Labor, etc) type petty arguments. Such things would be done masterfully… as a matter of survival.

8. Whether there is a separate partial vacuum (we're in) and outside that is a true vacuum, or its just false vacuum decay…
   Wouldn't entropy 'end' once it truly reaches a threshold of anisotropic entropy?
   Wouldn't that mean it'd be exponentially easier to force the universe (even if locally around you, maybe even in supercluster volumes) to 'draw' into an Enthalpic state?

9. MORE!!!!

10. One limitless quantity is bigger than another? You bring your infinity and I will bring mine. I will match you unit for unit limitlessly.

11. Darn it Isaac. A decade of schilling for the Orion IX food council.

12. I don't get it. These "people" are living in a dead universe. Surely all their energies will be spent looking for other universes instead of eking out an existence. Either that or repopulating the universe which sounds easily within their capabilities.

13. The First Rule of SFIA: you're gonna need a drink and a snack. The other First Rule of SFIA: if your drink and a snack isn't working, you're not using enough.

14. I don't know what is causing the difference but whatever mic your using in this video makes your voice sound so much nicer and relaxing.

15. This is hard bro

16. A couple suggestions:

    Your ideas are great and you could make awesome stories on YouTube about what you talk about. Instead of just giving the science, work with someone who writes if you need to, make some animations and you could get many millions of views again.

    Also, the cat will get you so many viewes if he or she just wanders in and you continue maybe pet the cat, pick the cat up, etc.

17. Love to see you in your videos I haven't caught the last few videos it's actually been a little while since I've watched them I noticed that your pronunciation has changed a bit not going to lie I found the older videos with a stronger pronunciation A Little More Charming but I still love the contents and the longer form videos are definitely welcome

18. Always great to find an almost 4 hour episode about the end of time. I very much like you discussion of various end time scenarios, keep up the good work.

    I also loved the random instance of CAT!

19. You are such a treasure!

20. Overachiever😅

21. The human race will destroy itself before too much longer. Just look around.

22. Earth will still exist a trillion years from now — we will starlift Sol to keep him fromoverheating.

23. Galileo! Great Easter Egg! Love the marathon episodes.

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