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Time won't disappear when the stars go out ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Remarks on the Fundamentals of Time oder die Zeitd\"ammerung"
· Joseph S. Finberg
The growth of disorder explains the flow of time, but not time itself.
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It’s commonly thought that time will 'die' with the stars when disorder peaks. But new work explains: time will go nowhere, it will just lose its direction. Like a river flowing into an ocean: the current is gone, but the water remains. So eternity has no arrows, yet it persists.

🎯 In the heat death state, temperature will drop to fractions of a degree above absolute zero. A single photon would feel like unbearable heat in such an icy void.

🎬 Isaac Asimov, in his story 'The Last Question', described the end of entropy, yet even there time remains a river without a current.

Scientists
Adam RiessBrian SchmidtEdwin HubbleGeorges LemaîtreMaarten SchmidtSaul Perlmutter
Tags
entropy spacetime curvature expansion of the universe
Laws
Hubble's lawsecond law of thermodynamicsBekenstein-Hawking entropyBoltzmann distributionfirst law of thermodynamicsequivalence principle
Original: arXiv:2508.14312 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds