The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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I really like this.
One thing. There are two other possible fates of the universe (why yes I do like astronomy how'd you know)
One: It grows so massive that it's like, "Hey galaxies I missed you long time no see" and collapses. RIP universe.
Two: It goes on forever, but stops expanding. If this happens, time will slow down and eventually stop. RIP universe, but not as painful. Like being injected with that stuff that painlessly kills things. Sort of.
Otherwise, this is amazing. 'Scuze me, I better go invent a time machine. Nah, I'll make one in the future and time travel back to give it to me.
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wow, just imagining the cost of keeping a server on long enough for the clock to full fill its purpose is crazy.
1 Google year is (8706 x 10^100) hours.
If for the sake of argument the server were running on a 500 watt computer
(Yes I know that the computer would probably never truly use that much energy)
The computer would require 4,380,000 x 10^100 watt hours of energy to operate.
Now lets assume the cost of energy is $0.15 a watt hour and it rises 5 cents every 5 years (this is probably being far over generous)
This clock would, to my estimation cost about (2.5 x 10^203) dollars.
Too bad the door will never actually open as there won't be enough of an energy differential left to power the computer running it. I wonder, just how far along that time line you could actually get a computer before you completely and utterly ran out of a way to power it?
Of course there are some ideas kicking around now that seem to suggest that space and time are emergent properties of quantum interactions but thinking about that makes me feel like I'm trying to smell the color blue.
Some folks do smell colors -- look up "synesthesia".
Incidentally, this clock could be done in somewhat fewer stages by using droppers instead of hoppers for the multipliers. But then you'd miss a fair bit of the interesting stuff in the first few stages. Maybe just for that long section of black-hole evaporation (and possibly proton decay, which he didn't mention)....
And yeah, there are indeed various other possibilities for the end of the universe, but AFAIK, this one (the "heat death") does seem to be where the current evidence is pointing. That might well change if/when we manage to build the Theory of Everything (by unifying relativity and quantum mechanics).
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The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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It's quite depressing to see that even the universe has a time limit. However, when I thought that, I realized that since there was no clear beginning to the unviverse, so there is no clear end, and that the universe may be somehow restarted, and that this is all speculation, in truth. Thus, it caused an hour and a half long wikipedia session reading up on the speed of light, proton decay, heat death, supercolliders, and more, ultimately drawing me to a blank conclusion of things that I already almost completely forgot but only half-understood in the first place.
I almost forgot that this was started with a minecraft video...
For those who are depressed about there being a "time limit to the universe": Remember that the "limit" is utterly beyond human scale.
Heck, we measure time in years -- the orbits of our planet around the sun -- and even before we get to the red-giant phase, the planet will be drifting enough to change the length of that orbit. If any creature managed to live long enough to be affected by such things, we'd dang well call that creature immortal. The only way we can even think about such time periods it through exponential notation -- actually visualizing that length of time is not possible for a human brain.
For those who are interested in exploring such timescales, I recommend reading science fiction, especially certain works by Greg Bear and Stephen Baxter.
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I did some CraftTweaker scripts for Mystical Agriculture. They fill in a couple of small gaps in MA, and also let you make or duplicate not only vanilla plants, but the blocks, plants and wood from Quark and Biomes O'Plenty. Also spawn eggs for most vanilla mobs! The scripts are here on Github.
Well, I love the clock, but you're going to need matter and energy in order to continue running the program long enough to... see the heat death of the universe... wait...
Perhaps mankind will draw together the very last of its resources to make sure this clock sees its way to the end.
....Well, I'm in a strange/freaked out/depressed state now. Great video though! It.. it just freaks me out that there will literally be NOTHING left in the universe.. the universe! It's gigantic! Why am I even alive? What's the point of living if we're just going to have that kind of fate? ..TOO MIND VEXING!!!
Wow, this gives me gooseflesh.
I've always been creeped out by the abyss of time. I'm not afraid of spiders or tight places or heights or flying or darkness, but to think about aeons of time makes me feel uncomfortable.
Same here, gives me the creeps, messes with my mind O.O
Well, I love the clock, but you're going to need matter and energy in order to continue running the program long enough to... see the heat death of the universe... wait...
Perhaps mankind will draw together the very last of its resources to make sure this clock sees its way to the end.
If mankind (or what remains of it) does that, it has more problems than an unopened iron door.
It's the smartest one of those, too. I hadn't even considered any device like it.
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So I was working on this really cool resource pack a while ago, but bad progress nonwithstanding, I think I found something much better... I'm probably gonna never release another custom Minecraft map.Until we meet again...
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One thing. There are two other possible fates of the universe (why yes I do like astronomy how'd you know)
One: It grows so massive that it's like, "Hey galaxies I missed you long time no see" and collapses. RIP universe.
Two: It goes on forever, but stops expanding. If this happens, time will slow down and eventually stop. RIP universe, but not as painful. Like being injected with that stuff that painlessly kills things. Sort of.
Otherwise, this is amazing. 'Scuze me, I better go invent a time machine. Nah, I'll make one in the future and time travel back to give it to me.
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Why have I been gone so long? My interwebs are broken and I'm sick. Yay.
Want a reply? Reply to me first, I rarely stalk threads anymore.
Way to go!
1 Google year is (8706 x 10^100) hours.
If for the sake of argument the server were running on a 500 watt computer
(Yes I know that the computer would probably never truly use that much energy)
The computer would require 4,380,000 x 10^100 watt hours of energy to operate.
Now lets assume the cost of energy is $0.15 a watt hour and it rises 5 cents every 5 years (this is probably being far over generous)
This clock would, to my estimation cost about (2.5 x 10^203) dollars.
Some folks do smell colors -- look up "synesthesia".
Incidentally, this clock could be done in somewhat fewer stages by using droppers instead of hoppers for the multipliers. But then you'd miss a fair bit of the interesting stuff in the first few stages. Maybe just for that long section of black-hole evaporation (and possibly proton decay, which he didn't mention)....
And yeah, there are indeed various other possibilities for the end of the universe, but AFAIK, this one (the "heat death") does seem to be where the current evidence is pointing. That might well change if/when we manage to build the Theory of Everything (by unifying relativity and quantum mechanics).
I almost forgot that this was started with a minecraft video...
-John Singer Sargent
Heck, we measure time in years -- the orbits of our planet around the sun -- and even before we get to the red-giant phase, the planet will be drifting enough to change the length of that orbit. If any creature managed to live long enough to be affected by such things, we'd dang well call that creature immortal. The only way we can even think about such time periods it through exponential notation -- actually visualizing that length of time is not possible for a human brain.
For those who are interested in exploring such timescales, I recommend reading science fiction, especially certain works by Greg Bear and Stephen Baxter.
Perhaps mankind will draw together the very last of its resources to make sure this clock sees its way to the end.
Same here, gives me the creeps, messes with my mind O.O
YES
If mankind (or what remains of it) does that, it has more problems than an unopened iron door.
It's the smartest one of those, too. I hadn't even considered any device like it.
So I was working on this really cool resource pack a while ago, but bad progress nonwithstanding, I think I found something much better... I'm probably gonna never release another custom Minecraft map. Until we meet again...