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What I meant was that Retrogamer's explanation was implausible since the law of conservation of energy could not allow any energy to cease, let alone a future devoid anything, unless he meant anything but heat.

Understandable. I meant there would be practically nothing. What I don't get is how can you have heat without atoms?

For that matter, how about the early universe? The first moment after the big bang was said to be extremely hot yet the first matter was formed a little while later? How could there have been heat without any matter to vibrate?

I don't even get how there could have been energy in the first place without matter. Every form of energy I know of (I know very little) involves matter in some way. As far as I know both kinetic energy and potential energy involve matter. So what kind of energy exists without matter in the very young universe and the very old universe?

I mean these as genuine questions.

carl sagan said that the only thing that makes our insignificance tolerable is love.

This is a rather complicated matter, RetroGamer, although equivalent in terms of energy units, (e=mc^2) matter can be destroyed and its energy can be released. For instance, antimatter when added with so-called (normal matter) cancel each other out and release only energy. Suffice to say, matter can be destroyed, but the laws of physics disallow the destruction of energy, in whatever form it comes in.

I detest cosmology and don't trouble myself with questions like the OP posted. I know that won't make a satisfying answer to many of you. I simply choose to frame life's questions in ways that are fruitful for myself, and cosmological ponderings do not give me any pleasure nor any useful direction. So I don't think about them.

It works for me.

I split the difference there. You clicked here so you'll doubtless be wanting some tough questions answered eventually. We would seem to be happy to be of assistance.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

The whole thing... and perhaps this as well due to my responding to your response. People aren't really capable of debasing anything beautiful so they sometimes go after constituent elements of beauty instead. I find it helpful to examine new ways of remembering that.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

I suppose there is always pm's for any future subject matter that might get removed.

Everyone's life is important! Everything that we do and all of the choices that we make impact the Universe in positive or negative ways.