The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don’t you know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, & again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.
-KPAX
(I do not present this as an endorsement of the Big Bounce hypothesis.)
Fair enough. It just bugs me on a status level to have an idea that was well-stated by famous philosophers quoted from K-PAX instead. I realize I’m being irrational here.
-KPAX
(I do not present this as an endorsement of the Big Bounce hypothesis.)
How could you distinguish a repeating process consisting of the entire universe, from that process happening only once?
If it were truly repeating, you couldn’t. Unless you were a KPAXian and the screenwriters wrote it to be so.
The idea of the eternal recurrence didn’t originate with that movie.
I know. What’s your point?
I was presenting the quote along the lines of UDT, and this.
Fair enough. It just bugs me on a status level to have an idea that was well-stated by famous philosophers quoted from K-PAX instead. I realize I’m being irrational here.
Gerry Rafferty offers an alternative perspective.