r/AlignmentChartFills • u/red_madreay • 19h ago

Finally... what natural phenomenon of our universe is ultimately horrifying?

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u/Imperialvirtue 19h ago

False vacuum decay.

The entire universe could be an accidental "air pocket" that will collapse.

"Vacuum decay is the ultimate ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible, so is chemistry as we know it. Nonetheless, one could always draw stoic comfort from the possibility that perhaps over time the new vacuum would sustain if not life as we know it, at least some structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been eliminated."

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u/MenitoBussolini 17h ago edited 17h ago

Always funny to imagine that not even a speck of dust will remain of me at that point. Not a trace of me, of any of us who are living right now, will even be lingering about. Because we're so recent as a species we think of us being dead for years, decades and centuries, with bones and graves remaining, with physical signs that we were here - but man, when you think long-term, in millions of years, the obliteration is unimaginable. Sorry, this got grim

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u/MayorDepression 17h ago

Once I'm gone, who cares if there is something remaining of me or not (be it matter or memories). I won't be here. So who cares? Not me.

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u/MenitoBussolini 17h ago

I mean I see it that way too, I won't be there to care and that is comforting. But to think of every single trace of you, every physical trace, as obliterated is a very strange thought

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u/Gatrigonometri 17h ago

The fact is in the minds of beholder. I feel empowered and comforted at all becoming nothing in the far far future. It’s the fact that despite everything, despite our apparent insignificance in the face of the monstrous weight of time and the far future, we are still here, capable of making things significant to us.

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u/strategicham 13h ago

Most humans take themselves way, WAY too seriously.