On: The Limits to Growth (1972)

[ganzuul]

Personally I'm a fan of Gödel's rotating universe. With closed time-like loops at this scale eternity too is close at hand.

[layer8 → ganzuul]

Gödel’s rotating universe presupposes that space is empty. Even if it could be made to work with a universe containing matter, it would just mean that everything repeats identically over and over. That’s effectively more akin to a finite-in-time universe.

[ganzuul → layer8]

Is empty or just approximately empty?

[layer8 → ganzuul]

Actually, I misremembered, it’s not empty. Too late to edit. The second half of my comment still stands.

[ganzuul → layer8]

I don't disagree I just think that it invites a new perspective on what is possible.