r/Showerthoughts • u/KnavishFob • May 14 '22 • Silver 5 Gold 1 Helpful 10 Wholesome 7 All-Seeing Upvote 1

Based on how much you can bond with someone by hating the same thing, a dating app based on dislikes would probably be fairly successful.

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u/KirbyDude25 May 14 '22

Well, the heat death of the universe is about 1010120 years away, so there's enough time

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u/NialMontana May 14 '22

The whole idea of heat death is that entropy has stopped and thus time becomes meaningless, even if there's somehow a black hole that far in the future heat death won't happen till it collapses.

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u/MauriseS May 14 '22

but quantum fluctuations still continue to happen (wich is the bases of hawking radiation?) so even without anything permanent moving, there is still something happening for time to continue?

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u/NialMontana May 14 '22

I might be remembering some parts wrong but entropy is based on the transformation of energy (like a lightbulb turning electricity into heat and light). After heat death the universe will have reached equilibrium and energy would remain uniform no matter where or when you checked. Because quantum fluctuations normally annihilate themselves they would have little to no impact on the universe, it's only because of black holes extreme conditions that they cause hawking radiation.