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Comment by troyvit

2 years ago

It's not philosophizing, it's ecology.[1]

Regarding stars and solar systems, over the lifespan of the universe those things are just blips.[2] In 110 trillion years the Milky Way will be down to about a hundred stars. That's a small fraction of the 10^10^120 years estimated to be the lifespan of the universe. So those aren't constants.

The only constant is decay (and C I guess). So I don't see what was too simple about what I said, or even how it was much different from what you said. There's no equilibrium to return to, and any environmental actions to try to restore that will have a problem.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4188511/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future