The "End" of the Universe: Heat Death and Quantum Teleportation
Unfortunately a lot of this is guesswork, I would be honored if a physicist came in and provided some of what is currently known, so that so many logical leaps and deductions needn't be made without evidence.
So I was thinking about how the end of the universe might look. I started by considering quantum effects. When a particle is interacted with, the quantum entanglement it had with its partner is obscured. Also, things are less likely to have other quantum effects, like teleportation, when this happens, I think. Then I wondered if a neutrino bombardment in an area would reduce the quantum effects noticably in that area. Like if you bombarded a space that has a buckey ball in it with neutrinos, would it be less likely to jump around? Keep in mind that neutrinos don't interact with matter except super rarely, so rarely that it could effectively be said not to happen in most circumstances. So would their presence in space (which is known) impact the quantum effects, or would true "interaction" (also called "observation" sometimes in physics) be required to prevent teleportation specifically? I imagine the neutrinos would not count, so quantum effects would continue unimpeded, but if they were reduced that would be very interesting.
So next I consider temperature. Are quantum effects more likely in lower temperature? I believe the answer to this is yes from some online research. I imagine this is true for a couple reasons. The first would be that at higher temperatures, the particle movement is higher, perhaps this could mean that the particle is essentially interacting with itself, internal pieces bouncing against each other, which would prevent quantum teleportation. This could also be why larger particles are not seen to teleport, but it can be done with certain molecules (like the buckey ball), perhaps because the paths of the internal pieces do not collide in the structure- no/low internal friction let's say- and so teleportation can occur with measurable frequency. This would also likely explain super conductors and help predict them, if it were true. Even in these structures, higher temperatures would lead to collisions, likely in an asymptotic relationship, so finding superconductors that operate at higher temperatures would be exponentially more difficult as the temperature went up, without an understanding and map of this internal friction equation. The second would be background radiation, essentially the temperature in the universe, seemingly paired with particle/anti particle pairs being created and destroyed everywhere. If these two are linked, then the universe is essentially filled with potential interactions for any particle, based on the temperature, or the volume of these pairs in any given space. The background radiation is only a few degrees though, so in empty space there are few of these interactions per volume of space at any given time, but they still exist with a frequency everywhere in the universe which is important to this logic.
So, relating this back to the "end" of the universe. One of the most depressing ends is that everything will reach escape velocity, and the universe will reach heat death. Basically nothing can interact anymore with anything else, and even internal structures will break down as they approach absolute zero, and even the background radiation stops. The thing I realized is, that as you approach this state, stuff would likely start teleporting, most likely with asymptotically increasing likelihood as you approach absolute zero. Electrons, for example, are extremely likely to be at one point in space, but are possibly anywhere in space (the chance they are anywhere never reaches 0%). So as temperature and interactions approach zero, this curve would flatten out, and soon their likelihood of being anywhere would become even, and they would start teleporting all around available space. Now in this near heat death state, most structures will have already broken down, and so the ones that are left would be highly likely to have low internal friction, so everything would start doing this. Assuming they would all reach this point at similar times in this environment, all at once the universe would reach a very shimmery state, everything jumping around (if someone were observing it from the outside, that is).
Now this alone doesn't bring the universe back together, but considering the curvature of space, it does. This part I think may be another complete logical leap, but I think I heard it somewhere: matter influences the confines of space. So "space" as we know it effectively doesn't exist until something is close enough to give it a reason to. This would be important mathematically as all of actual space would be a sphere around the matter in said space, not an infinite field. This means that when an electron jumps in space, it jumps somewhere within that sphere. If you consider everything starting to jump all at once, the matter would be more likely to jump into a space with more matter, than a space with none, essentially an observed counter to the law of entropy, only because the bounds of the sphere space has more area where there is matter than area where there is not. Some stuff would jump toward the edge, but most stuff would jump toward the center, assuming random space selection as a whole.
After a few jump cycles, the space would become measurably smaller, as less stuff would be at the original edges, the new edges would be redrawn closer to the center due to the new distribution of mass. This would cause more jumps to occur until stuff started getting close enough together for gravity to draw them closer together again. At this point collisions between particles would start occurring with frequency, to the point where structures would again start forming. If these quantum teleportation events happened rapidly enough, you may even find that they result in a big bang again, before the effects of gravity can catch up, which would then cause everything to get thrown back out onto space. Or you may find a universe started in reverse, now gravity pulling everything back inward, after several quantum shrinks, into a set up that allows once more for stars and galaxies and the like. Either way, heat death and no interaction seems to equal the perfect set up for quantum teleportation to take center stage, and stuff would naturally start coming back together. The end would just be the outer limit for the universe, which would then shrink suddenly back into a more familiar set up.
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