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Originally posted by Zinke
That 's kind of what the Omega Point theory is about.
Think of it like this, every entity in the universe, living or not, is doing and learning something, and trying to better itself. Atoms combine into molecules, molecules eventually for cells, cells form organs etc etc.. If life began as single celled organisms, and now we as humans are made up of trillions of those, who's to say one day all humans won't be like cells in a larger being.
At that point, and when the universe is approaching that Omega Point, the theory goes that the 'beings' that exist at that time will have unbelievable control over time and space, to the point that they can start resurrecting/recreating/reproducing all things that have happened before. All things that can be, will, and all things that have been, will be again. That's the Omega Point, or God.
So, yea, technically speaking if the universe is expanding infinitely, all possible scenarios will exist at some point in time. The cool thing about that, is science-fiction is not fiction, given a long enough time frame. A gun the size of your fist that can destroy a planet? Absolutely. |
This reminds me a lot of Dan Simmon's Hyperion series, if you have happened to have read it. Besides being an absolutely phenomenal story, it deals with subjects such as our future and existence as solidly and bravely as anything I've read. One of the, I guess you would call it "theories", in the series is that life is just constantly growing, expanding, and evolving, and its goal is simply to fill the universe, to make it green so to speak. There are so many things in that series that just completely blow my mind, including a lot of Omega Point-ish ideas.
Just a plug for what I consider the best work of fiction I have ever experienced.
His latest series, Illium, which I have yet to read, but which has gotten similarly rave reviews, actually deals with super-advanced humanoids, as you described, who have made themselves after the Greek gods, and are completely reinacting, on a 1-to-1 scale, the Trojan war, and the events of the Illium. An interesting parallel to the alternate reality idea.