On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:35:11 PM UTC, Liz R wrote: > > On 19 March 2014 15:55, Russell Standish <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> So an expanding universe should give rise to increasing maximum >> entropy, but the total energy remains constant (at zero). As for what >> happens to the free energy (stuff available for work), its a bit more >> complicated, but it appears that processes reducing the free energy >> (or increasing the entropy, as its the same thing) are not currently >> keeping up with the increase in maximum entropy caused by an expanding >> universe. >> >> This is the bottom line, in a nutshell. As long as the entropy ceiling > goes on rising, the energy available to do work decreases, I think > asymptotially, but is never reduced to zero. (Hence we might still have > conscious beings made from electron-positron "atoms" larger than the > current Hubble radius in the year 1 googol... perhaps) I'm not sure what > happens when the available energy reaches the zero point level, though? > Scaling up this way doesn't scope up the remaining free enwefy in a useful way, It's Work done or being done. If each unit of free energy is a googol/15-Bill light years away from something it could be potentially do work on, chances are nothing ever happens again ,
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