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What happens when God calls time? ; The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead By Marcus Chown FABER pound15.99
2007
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The answer is simple. OK, it's not at all simple, but it goes something like this. Assuming that by that stage we are in control of all the matter in the universe, we should be able to prod it a bit so that when (and this is also assuming if) the Big Crunch happens, it happens in such a way that, as all the matter in the universe gets closer and closer together, it becomes faster and easier to use this matter to process information. The universe will then, apparently, eventually reach something called the \"Omega Point\", theorised by Frank Tipler in The Physics of Immortality. This is a point where its power is such that the universe can process an infinite amount of information. What happens after reaching the Omega Point - basically the end of everything - becomes immaterial since, if you could process an infinite amount of information, you could, at that point, simulate an infinite universe, or even run all the possible histories of the universe that there could ever have been. As in Zeno's paradox, the finish line will never appear. And this has an interesting, mind-blowing consequence, completely consistent with the laws of physics. As Tipler says: \"One way or another, we are going to find ourselves resurrected in a computer simulation at the end of time\". For reasons too complex to go into here, the final simulation will not be any old simulation; it will be just like Heaven. And the good news (especially for those still contemplating the existential implications of \"All the Myriad Ways\") is that if Tipler is right, then, on exiting this life, you go straight there.
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