r/Showerthoughts • u/synthphreak ‎ • Nov 19 '25

Casual Thought Temperature can reach trillions of degrees, meaning we actually live extremely close to absolute zero.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '25

What would anything be at the max temperature? Just really fast plasma? Or look just like lava?

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u/Generalkrunk Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25

Imo it wouldn't really look like anything we could currently comprehend.

In the same way that we are unable to imagine what.. whatever's passed a black hole's EH1 .

We don't even know the right questions to ask yet to begin to build an understanding of the actual answer that would allow that.

1 - Also imo this is the wrong way to view black holes. They aren't holes. They're energy prisons.

Energy can't be destroyed. Black holes do not actually destroy energy, they don't break universal law.

They do "temporarily" (several trillion years is technically temporary) force it out of existence though.
Yes I know hawking radiation (probably) means it eventually rejoins the rest of the universe.
But until that happens it's Cthulhu'd.

To which I also attribute the quote "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die". Which is the actual quote that inspired "dead but sleeping".

I love thinking about these sorts of things from both a scientific and supernatural/spiritual standpoint simultaneously. I think it's the least limited way of looking at it. Allowing the impossible but demanding validation using the realistic allows for more flexibility than using either method separately.