08-11-2015, 11:55 AM
Various ways have been suggested to address this issue (survival in deep time). These include:
a) Use a strategy of hibernation and ever slower clock rates to live for a subjective eternity.
b) Store a bunch of energy earlier in the universe's lifetime and then use it in a gradually reducing manner while simultaneously operating every more slowly. Again, it's possible to achieve a subjective eternity of existence. IIRC the amount of energy works out to an amount you could get in a reasonable amount of time from an average star.
c) Make better use of stellar material using stellar disassembly and stellar husbandry. Taking the sun apart and 'recycling' it's mass through either an artificial white dwarf or black hole gives you potential civilization lifetimes as high as 20,000x the estimated age of the universe.
d) Create a new universe and move in, leaving this one behind.
I've got some articles/papers on this floating around somewhere if folks want to get into this in more depth.
Todd
a) Use a strategy of hibernation and ever slower clock rates to live for a subjective eternity.
b) Store a bunch of energy earlier in the universe's lifetime and then use it in a gradually reducing manner while simultaneously operating every more slowly. Again, it's possible to achieve a subjective eternity of existence. IIRC the amount of energy works out to an amount you could get in a reasonable amount of time from an average star.
c) Make better use of stellar material using stellar disassembly and stellar husbandry. Taking the sun apart and 'recycling' it's mass through either an artificial white dwarf or black hole gives you potential civilization lifetimes as high as 20,000x the estimated age of the universe.
d) Create a new universe and move in, leaving this one behind.
I've got some articles/papers on this floating around somewhere if folks want to get into this in more depth.
Todd