Timeline for Could an advanced alien race prevent the death of the universe?
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| Dec 30, 2019 at 11:28 | answer | added | xFoxMajicx | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 25, 2018 at 5:17 | vote | accept | John Michailidis | ||
| Jul 25, 2018 at 5:17 | vote | accept | John Michailidis | ||
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| Jul 25, 2018 at 5:15 | vote | accept | John Michailidis | ||
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| Jul 22, 2018 at 20:03 | answer | added | cybernard | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 21, 2018 at 0:33 | answer | added | user53241 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 23:46 | comment | added | Beta | I recommend another one by Greg Bear: "Judgement Engine" | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 23:38 | comment | added | ahiijny | @forest Good ol' Kyubey and entropy... | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 21:30 | comment | added | Matthew Daly | Tipler's Omega Point is an interesting idea, even though it's dependent on a Big Crunch. Essentially it boils down to the Big Crunch and subsequent Big Bang providing an essentially infinite amount of energy, enabling the civilization that harnesses it to carry out an infinite number of computations, so for instance they could simulate all possible alternate universes. Ian McDonald's short story The Days of Solomon Gursky explores such an event. | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 20:25 | comment | added | KalleMP | A book by Greg Bear shares some similar ideas. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_at_the_End_of_Time | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 19:22 | answer | added | Him | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 19:18 | answer | added | KalleMP | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 11:42 | comment | added | JCRM | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Can magic prevent the end of the universe? | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 5:48 | comment | added | Infiltrator | Why alien? Why not have humans advanced enough by that point? | |
| Jul 20, 2018 at 1:24 | comment | added | forest | Make a contract with Kyubey? | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 23:29 | answer | added | Mazura | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 20:07 | comment | added | Fattie | For a detailed examination of this look no further than Paradox (and particularly the sequel) by Phillip P. Peterson an absolutely fantastic sci-fi pair of books! | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 17:38 | comment | added | user25818 | @WorldOutsider sure, but that still makes the word extraneous. And the tag is about interlopers which seems uncalled for, but I don't want to edit until I'm pretty sure it wasn't trying to suggest something I just missed. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 17:27 | comment | added | World Outsider | @notstoreboughtdirt if evolution has taught us anything on the scale of millions of years, any descendants of ours on the scale of billions of years are very likely to be quite alien, comparing to today | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 15:58 | comment | added | Ray | @Andrey There's also Sam Hughes' The Last-But-One Question | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 11:52 | answer | added | Demigan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 9:54 | answer | added | Valerij | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 9:21 | answer | added | Valerij | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 9:11 | answer | added | Ruadhan | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 8:23 | comment | added | Korthalion | As the answers suggest, this question is a little broad. Could you give us some back story to your scenario please? | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 7:40 | comment | added | Herr Derb | I've someone gets able to control our simulation, they still could pull the plug ;) | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 6:50 | answer | added | YoMismo | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 6:15 | comment | added | vsz | Another work of fiction dealing with this problem is the video game Anachronox. Inhabitants of a parallel universe (actually, a universe "before" ours) try to extend the lifetime of their universe by dumping entropy into ours, making the lifetime of our universe shorter and theirs longer. | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 3:24 | answer | added | Ender Look | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jul 19, 2018 at 0:40 | comment | added | jpmc26 | ...It's really funny that I just read Asimov's "The Last Question" for the first time today. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 20:30 | comment | added | VBartilucci | Not a single mention of Block Transfer Computation yet? | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 20:28 | comment | added | BrettFromLA | @Andrey Thanks for the tip on that story! I almost saw the ending coming. Great read. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 20:13 | answer | added | user32463 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 19:48 | answer | added | MongoTheGeek | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 19:40 | comment | added | Andrey | I HIGHLY recommend you read this by Isaac Asimov multivax.com/last_question.html | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 19:09 | answer | added | DRF | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 18:29 | comment | added | user25818 | How are aliens involved? We will be more than a few billion years more advanced than us before the heatdeath is the immediate problem. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 18:09 | answer | added | Tyler S. Loeper | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 18:08 | answer | added | AndyD273 | timeline score: 28 | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 17:38 | answer | added | Ryan_L | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 17:34 | answer | added | DevourerOfStars | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 17:21 | answer | added | Joe | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 17:19 | answer | added | Tim B | timeline score: 103 | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 17:11 | history | edited | Gryphon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2018 at 17:07 | history | asked | John Michailidis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
