Plus, like… what are we going to do about it? If we knew, with absolute, provable certainty, the Universe would end in ten years… how would it help? Societal collapse and mass suffering for certain - why not murder that person who took the last jar of peanut butter? What are they going to do, put you in prison for life? How do you explain to your children they will die in a few years? Why bother trying to save people, animals, the planet when it’s all going away? Surely, with little to lose but a couple of years, someone with access wants to see what a hydrogen explosion looks like with their own eyes.

Studying for science’s sake is laudable, but studying for the reason to know what the odds are that the Universe will go 💢_poof_💢 seems pretty useless. the odds could be 50% for every second, and the universe has just had 14 bn years of lucky rolls.

If we can’t stop it, are we better off knowing, or staying ignorant?

FIFY