Talk:2972: Helium Synthesis

I had imagined that, rather than destroying the entire universe, they just somehow made a big bang INSIDE THE MACHINE that they could somehow obtain helium from safely. 141.101.109.166 07:34, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

I get the impression that, like an abbreviated version of the cyclical Big Bounce hypothesis, they did indeed recreate the conditions for a (sufficiently similar) universe.

The question as to whether they obliterated their current one (in a short-sighted and paperclip-maximiser-like effort that disregards the safety of their current existence) or create a new instance of universe-within-the-universe (like 2688: Bubble Universes, presumably with some way of bringing the stuff out) is left open.

If the latter, it could be that the reason why each universe's helium-users are chronically short of helium is that their universe has been used as a source for the next-universe-out's helium by the equivalent outwards recursion of the very same people. (The former would imply a kind of The Last Question situation, only not with the same timing.) 162.158.74.118 08:25, 15 August 2024 (UTC)