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there is no reason to think that the next time around after the supposed termination of expansion (which may never happen) then eventual collapsing of all matter, time and space back towards the big crunch, things like gravity or time would be the same or even exist at all. The next time around it could just as easily be a sea of molten plasma with forces entirely different, where time or gravity may not even exist.
and who is to say that a molten sea of plasma is a bad thing? that it would be inimical to the existence of life? it is not only possible but entirely probable that informational, hence intelligent life forms may exist entirely outside of the realm of the biological models we are used to thinking must be present for life to exist. it is entirely possible that in the massive pulses of photons that emerge from an exploding star and travel billions of light years may not in some way develop an informational system comprised of photons and the forces between them. who is to say that some giant mountains of silicon on the zercon magnetar in the gormagrnon nebula didn't contain enough chemical impurities so that accidental silicon based life forms emerged. who is to say that within and between stars, galaxies and even seas of molten plasma, informational systems cannot emerge or aren't by their very nature of these forms already present. and who is to qualify which informational systems are imbued with sentience? what if the other dimensional world that is all around us but that we cannot experience contains a quantum consciousness? whereby every spin of every electron is indeed intimately connected on a quantum plane that we don't even have the observational, physical or imaginational equipment to perceive or even imagine the existence of?
and who is to say that a molten sea of plasma is a bad thing? that it would be inimical to the existence of life? it is not only possible but entirely probable that informational, hence intelligent life forms may exist entirely outside of the realm of the biological models we are used to thinking must be present for life to exist. it is entirely possible that in the massive pulses of photons that emerge from an exploding star and travel billions of light years may not in some way develop an informational system comprised of photons and the forces between them. who is to say that some giant mountains of silicon on the zercon magnetar in the gormagrnon nebula didn't contain enough chemical impurities so that accidental silicon based life forms emerged. who is to say that within and between stars, galaxies and even seas of molten plasma, informational systems cannot emerge or aren't by their very nature of these forms already present. and who is to qualify which informational systems are imbued with sentience? what if the other dimensional world that is all around us but that we cannot experience contains a quantum consciousness? whereby every spin of every electron is indeed intimately connected on a quantum plane that we don't even have the observational, physical or imaginational equipment to perceive or even imagine the existence of?