how to survive the end of the universe
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How to Survive the End of the UniverseIn a sense, this plan needs to be perceived with irony because it is almost irrelevant: we have very small chances of surviving even next 1000 years and if we do, we have a lot of things to do before it becomes reality. And even afterwards, our successors will have completely different plans.There is one important exception: there are suggestions that collider experiments may lead to a vacuum phase transition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum, which begins at one point and spreads across the visible universe. Then we can destroy ourselves and our universe in this century, but it would happen so quickly that we will not have time to notice it. (The term "universe" hereafter refers to the observable universe that is the three-dimensional world around us, resulting from the Big Bang.) We could also solve this problem in next century if we were to create superintelligence and also have technological Singularity.The purpose of this plan is to show that actual immortality is possible: that we have an opportunity to live not just billions and trillions of years, but an unlimited duration. My hope is that the plan will encourage us to invest more in life extension and prevention of global catastrophic risks. Our life could be eternal and thus have meaning forever. Anyway, the end of the observable universe is not an absolute end: it's just one more problem on which the future human race will be able to work. And even at the negligible level of knowledge about the universe that we have today, we are still able to offer more than 50 ideas on how to prevent its end.In fact, to assemble and come up with these 50 ideas I spent about 200 working hours, and if I had spent more time on it, I'm sure I would have found many new ideas. In the distant future we can find more ideas; choose the best of them; prove them, and prepare for their implementation. First of all, we need to understand exactly what kind end to the universe we should expect in the natural course of things. There are many hypotheses on this subject, which can be divided into two large groups:1. The universe is expected to have a relatively quick and abrupt end, known as the Big Crunch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Crunch or Big Rip (accelerating expansion of the universe causes it to break apart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip ), or the decay of the false vacuum. Vacuum decay can occur at any time; a Big Rip could happen in about 10-30 billion years, and the Big Crunch has hundreds of billions of years timescale.2. Another scenario assumes an infinitely long existence of an empty, flat and cold universe which would experience so called "thermal death" that is gradual halting of all processes and then disappearance of all matter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universeThe choice between these scenarios depends on the geometry of the universe, which is determined by the equations of general relativity and, – above all – the behavior of the almost unknown parameter: dark energy. The recent discovery of dark energy has made Big Rip the most likely scenario, but it is clear that the picture of the end of the universe will change several times.You can find more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universeThere are five general approaches to solve the end of the universe problem, each of them includes many subtypes shown in the map:1. Surf the Wave: Utilize the nature of the process which is ending the universe. (The most known of these type of solutions is Omega Point by Tippler, where the universe's energy collapse is used to make infinite calculations.)2. Go to parallel world3. Prevent the end of the universe4. Survive the end of the universe5. Dissolving the problemSome of the ideas are on the level of the wildest possible speculations and I hope you will enjoy them.TRANSCRIPT
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The Omega point by Tippler: using theenergy of the oscillations during the Big Crunch near the singularity point to makeinfinite calculations
The Omega space the same, but in case of Big Rip scenario. Here the dark energy is used for calculations during Big Rip late stages
Eternal return after the Big Crunch the new universe will appear and our civilization in it (Nietzsche)
Use the energy of the destruction to create new universes
How to Survive the End of the Universe
Fast End SoonFalse Vacuum Decay
Big RipBig Crunch
Empty UniverseHeat Death in the
Flat Universe
Boltzmann brains: use chain of complimentary BB for infinite calculations
Use survived particles for ever slower calculations(with trillions lightyears between them)
Boltzmann computers: vacuum fluctuation in empty universe may create supercomputer which simulate our reality for long subjective time
Random quantum fluctuations or quantum tunnelling can produce another Big Bang
Start artificial false vacuum decay and use its energy for calculations
Try to reach borders of the Universe or regions with other physical laws
Use quantum foam for calculations
Surf the Wave
Utilize the nature of the process which is ending the Universe
Cause of the End of
the Universe
Go to Mathematical universe (like in Egans Permutation city)
Use quantum immortality: In other branches the death of the universe will come later, so our civilization will always survive
Use other quantum properties: non-locality or quantum branch interaction
Create new universes (maybe in black holes or colliders) and migrate in them or define their properties
Find that we already live in the designed universe, physical laws war universe by Lem or fecund universes by Lee Smolin and use it
Go to higher dimensional reality (if our world has 5 or more dimension as string theory suggest)
Go to another brane (if many 3-dimensional branes float in higher dimensional space, like in Egan Diaspora), may be using wormholes
Accusal connection: Analogue to quantum immortality: our copies may exist in other universes (which are not casually connected) in which universe will not end. We could deliberately create smaller and more ignorant about our fate ourselves which will have more copies in different worlds Contact aliens from parallel worlds and send them information about us (The Gods Themselves by Asimov), may be very slow Use interactions between different universes for computation, like Dark Flow
Go to a Parallel World
Choose different way of the end of the Universe
Become accelerated uploads thatexperience a tremendous (possibly infinite) amount of experiences in finite time
Control of matter and dark energy, and change the fate of the universe
Control over laws of physics (using calibrating fields)
Exploit nature of actuality: solve difference between existence and non-existence
Exploit qualia and their indestructibility
Learn how to create energy and matter from the vacuum
Turn the arrow of time backward
Study and use properties of physical vacuum
Reversible calculations and eternal computing using eternal particles
Geometric computers using space curvatures for calculations
Understanding of the laws of physics as computing processes in a certain environment (perhaps as cellular automata by Wolfram) and elimination of theboundaries between computers and physics (Digital physics).
Prevent the End of the
Universe
Go to the Planck level (femtotechnology)
Exploit black holes properties (maybethey can survive the end of the Universe), or create new Universe, Lee Smolin
Create super AI and give it that task; technological singularity itself
Send information into the next universe (in Cyclic model)
Prevent collider accidents which could create the false vacuum decay Create indestructible particles Time travel: go back in time (Manifold: time by Baxter) and change the way we cope with the universe end; use time loopsfor eternal existence Create a refuge in a bubble of curved space Find new laws of physics
No exact end date in the heat death scenario
Survive the End of the
Universe
Solve the Big Bang problem: learn how something can arise from nothing and implement this knowledge
Practically prove existence of benevolent and eternal God and/or afterlife
Merge with the universe
Use of naked singularities
Change geometry of the Universe and its curvature
Jump to eternal chaotic inflation level (Linde) Alternative theories of reality can offer alternative ways to avoid the death of theuniverse. See, for example, a holographic universe
Second, perpendicular time arrow and other types of dimensions
Move from infinity to eternity: untime
We live in a simulation and find a way to persuade its hosts not to disable it. Or use of eternal Matryoshka simulation: infinite number of hosts upon hosts.
Realizing human potential: Experience all possible experiences before the end of the Universe (Bostrom)
Nonlinear approach to time and experience
Dissolvingthe
Problem
The purpose of this roadmap is to prove that real immortality is possible and that even on our low level of understanding we could suggest around 30 ways to survive the end of the universe.
Alexey Turchin, 2015, GNU-like license. Free copying and design editing, discuss major updates with Alexey Turchin. http://immortality-roadmap.com/ last updated version here and here: https://www.scribd.com/avturchin mail to: [email protected] Edited by Michael Anissimov