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  • Most people who deal with this subject fairly heavily lean towards the notion that the future is finite - quite what form the 'boundary' of time takes is less well known, but even rudimentary logic suggests that time itself is 'capped'.

    I always found this quite a profound idea, that not only will we be dead one day but that in the very very distant future (I hesitate to use the word) we will not only be dead but will have never have existed.

    Thoughts like this provoke me into wearing unusual clothing.

    But on the subject of space (spatial dimensions) it is commonly accepted that the universe is finite in size (but, of course, unbounded) in that it does not (cannot) go on forever.

    What about the thermodynamic angle of this.

    As entropy is always increasing like the second law states, the quality of energy in the universe will continually decrease, however it has been found that the universe is increasing at an ever accelerating rate, which means the temperature of the universe is decreasing at an ever accelerating rate. Now Entropy increases at a decreased rate with a decrease in temperature.

    So which will happen first, buggar all useful energy or the universe hits absolute zero and nothing can happen or am I talking bollox?

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