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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ive heard from lots of people 2012 will be the end but i doubt it i dont think the world will end just outta nowhere!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The end of the universe in science fiction Scientific speculation about the ultimate fate of life in the universe merges almost seamlessly into science fiction!. Many works describe the end of the universe—occasionally purely educational exercises describing theories of the day, more often exploiting its potential as the ultimate sense of wonder plot device, or satirising the pretensions of humanity in general and cosmologists in particular!. Science fiction can try to suggest a scientific eschatology that searches for meaning in the face of the new knowledge!. Countless sci-fi and fantasy works use the threatened destruction of the universe as their plot device, usually with an evil supervillain and/or the incompetence of humanity as the cause, and usually with human ingenuity saving the day!. The topic of heat death was explored in science fiction as early as 1895 in H!. G!. Wells' The Time Machine, which includes an evocation of the heat death of the universe as imagined by scientists like Lord Kelvin at that time, consisting of the fading out of the Sun to an exhausted red ember and a vision of Earth as a cold and bland eroded desert, to as recently as 2007 in the Doctor Who episode Utopia, with the last remnants of society struggling to survive in a universe without stars and few planets still capable of supporting life!. Religion is not wholly excluded from science fiction's explorations of the end of our universe!. Arthur C!. Clarke's 1953 short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" treats non-scientific eschatology seriously!. Its famous last line ominously chronicles the end of the universe as observed by mankind: Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out!.!. James Blish's Cities in Flight series of books (1955 and 1962) ends with the disruption of the Universe in accordance with the hypercollision theory!. The protagonists are able to 'seed' the resultant new universes with their own bodies (dying in the process) by using technology which isolates them from local space-time at the instant of the collision!. Isaac Asimov's short story, "The Last Question" was published in 1959!. Humankind builds a series of supercomputers to solve the question of how to stop entropy, but are unsuccessful until long after the universe (and humanity) has succumbed to heat death (the only cosmological end-scenario articulated at the time)!. A computer built in hyperspace finally discovers how to reverse the process and does so: "'LET THERE BE LIGHT!' And there was light—"!. The Big Crunch as the fate of the Universe was also explored in Poul Anderson's 1970 novel Tau Zero which posits a cyclic universe where the big crunch will be surrounded by a cloud of hydrogen, and that a starship could navigate a course to avoid the singularity and emerge into the new universe after the subsequent big bang!. The end of the universe has been used for satirical and comedic effect!. In Douglas Adams's science-fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" and its patrons are projected through time to the end of the universe, for guests to watch the event as dinner entertainment!. The astronomical cost of this exercise is paid for by depositing a small sum in the restaurant's account when the booking is made - by the end of the universe this has become a huge fortune due to the operation of compound interest!.!.!. The concept of an end to the universe has inspired some authors to explore the more human-centric topics of fate and free will, In Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel Slaughterhouse Five, the primary character is a war veteran who is contacted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore who claim that one of their scientists will accidentally destroy the universe while testing a new type of spaceship fuel!. Tralfamadorians are aware of this event because they perceive all of time instantaneously, in a similar way to how someone would observe an entire range of mountains in one instant!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The sun will burn it's self out in 5 billion years, but man will probably accomplish that sooner if science doesn't save it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Truth: December 12, 2012!. (12/12/12) The End Times!. Www@QuestionHome@Com When you die that will be the end of the world as far as you will know!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The world will end when we turn all fear into love!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Why worry about it!.Who knows!!Www@QuestionHome@Com Why would the world end!?Www@QuestionHome@Com When you die , the world will end !.Www@QuestionHome@Com |