Jarhyn
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An interesting idea is that at some point, everything in our universe will decay and there will only be one solid state, where everything is never going to touch anything ever again.You are ignoring the initial conditions of the universe, which was a state of low entropy, and the conditions within the universe in the Stelliferous Era which we live in, which evolved using naturalistic processes from those initial conditions. Life is a process which accelerates the rate at which the universe becomes more disordered, and exists within a tiny window of time when the conditions permit. Those conditions which allow ordered structures like living things to exist is very, very brief and will pass soon.Because I exist in a universe where entropy is a driving force. For the same reasons that you say you expect anthropocentric designs (you are surrounded by people and their works), I tend to expect chaos (as I am surrounded by change and decay). Expectation is not an objective phenomenon.Perhaps they might. But I certainly wouldn't expect order. Why would I?Why? The word anticipate implies prior experience with whatever phenomena you might be talking about, and we have no experience with the formation of universes, or how they turn out. Perhaps universes can only be one way, or perhaps they are able to take on an infinite number of forms, each with their own characteristics. We have no way to tell at present.Wouldn't one anticipate chaos, if anything?In the meantime, you might ask yourself: What would a universe that was NOT designed look like?
Why wouldn’t you?
It will be as "nothing", infinite and empty and unchanging.
Then it will contain something, on account of everything expanding too fast for the vacuum fluctuations to come back together even in an instant of time. A bunch of stuff will come to exist, very quickly. It could be expanding like that for an eternity or no time at all depending on how one graphs a static thing with a single meaningful property.
If the expansion ever stops or slows down, or something changes at all about this geometry, when it "comes back" and stops inflating, a single particle will exist at the nexus of every infinitely expanded virtual particle collection, and then all that will give rise to the same damn thing, as mutated by infinite turbulence at every point.
Or something?
I just know that when you're ripping apart the quantum vacuum fluctuations as they always happen everywhere as they must, something weird is bound to happen. You're going to get a LOT of something from nothing, and it won't disappear in a puff of instant annihilation the way it did before the epoch when time and space at every point are ripping apart faster than C. It conjurors images of "white holes" albeit at every point in the universe, hot and dense, and damn near symmetrical assuming the rip ever ends.