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Imagine if we solve it. Then hope to preserve the answer long enough, that people will care.

The first problem is data integrity and storage. Will the atoms the answer is on, still be around?

The next is, what kind of search engine will we have, with 10^78 years of internet history?!



I think a bigger question is what will they do for that long?

All the things like stars will be long gone and dead before that time leaving us with long lived black holes and radiation. So everything would be based on virtual world can computation by that point. Do you just cool everything to near absolute zero and run it as slow as possible to you can last as long as possible?

The History of the Universe channel has an episode around this, but I'll have to figure out which one it was.


They'll exist because of Wan-To.

The World at the End of Time by Frederick Pohl.


Presumably civilization will be using iron stars by then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_star#Compact_iron_star_fo...

...although I'm not sure I've ever seen the expected temperature of iron stars. 1 milliKelvin?




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