this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
70 points (100.0% liked)
Science
23691 readers
1 users here now
Welcome to Hexbear's science community!
Subscribe to see posts about research and scientific coverage of current events
No distasteful shitposting, pseudoscience, or COVID-19 misinformation.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Big Bounce is cool, but heat death isn't such a bad thing after all because - and I'm no astrophysicist - I've always had a pet theory that a universe as complex as ours could emerge spontaneously from a void of nothing given quantum fluctuations and infinite time.
I think that's the going string theory explanation these days. I like big bounce because it also explains the initial low-entropy state of the universe really elegantly, which gives you all sorts of nice things like the arrow of time.
It wasn't complex when it emerged though, all that happened later.