Why I think it is logical that the universe won't ever end

By well-wisher

Tue, 16 Feb 2016
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Stephen Hawkings says the universe must, eventually, end because of the second law of thermodynamics which states,
"Second law of thermodynamics – The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium".
But I think there is something that he is not taking into account and that is that parts of the universe are already constantly dying while other parts of the universe are coming into existence (stars dying and new stars being born) which means he is wrong to think that the universe is like a system which, as a whole, keeps on going until it burns out. Instead the universe is like a system, like the Ship of Theseus, within which parts are constantly burning out and being replaced by new parts.

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Submitted by well-wisher on

You've misread my post. I didn't say in my post that energy was being created or destroyed. I said that the big entropy that Stephen Hawkings says will happen doesn't make sense because little entropies are constantly happening already; the death of stars and galaxies (not the destruction of energy) and being balanced out by the birth of new stars (energy from the death of stars taking a different form; not energy being destroyed but, as you say, energy being recycled).

If you were to compare it to human birth you could say, "People die every day but the entire human race doesn't become extinct because people are also being born every day".

 

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

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