Sean Carroll

All right.

Yeah.

Just in case there's anyone who really wants it out there, I mean, Neil's given a very good reason to think that entropy should go down.

And the secret to, you know, for a little bit more technicality, because this is the end of the podcast, we should care about phase space, not space.

That is to say, we should think about both the positions of particles and also their velocities.

So the positions of particles are indeed going to get squeezed together if the universe collapses.

But the velocities are going to spread all out and do crazy things and increase the entropy of the whole configuration.

And in fact, it's going to look wildly inhomogeneous with black holes and empty regions.

And it's going to look nothing like our early universe looked.

Man, you're good.

I'm old.

I've done this before.

Not my first rodeo.

What can I tell you?

That was 2024.

And the one I'm supposed to be finishing up right now is called Complexity and Emergence 2026.

Tolkien it should work well for me too so I'm waiting for the adaptation and then you escape to middle earth and all as well right we find you online with the preposterous universe that's right and a lot of my work these days you know talking out there is in the podcast format with the mindscape podcast yeah

Mindscape.

Wow.

Absolutely.