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on Friday March 28 2014, @06:56AM
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keplr writes:
The universe is going to be around for a long time, but humans will likely not be around for the vast majority of it. This clock, built with logic gates within Minecraft, ticks the eons away via exponentially increasing "pulses", culminating in the opening of a door around the time the universe will reach thermodynamic equilibrium -- when time itself will die, and every moment will be like every other that will follow.
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Universe's "Death Clock" Created in Minecraft
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by crutchy on Friday March 28 2014, @07:07AM
dunno about the name but this guy gives a good rundown of some minegineering
never tried mincraft but it kinda looks like might be fun
(Score: 3, Informative) by crutchy on Friday March 28 2014, @07:10AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Ky78tT518 [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by lx on Friday March 28 2014, @10:10AM
it kinda looks like might be fun
Which is why I decided never to play Minecraft after spending an afternoon on it in the free beta days. Too much addiction potential.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @07:25AM
See http://minetest.net/ [minetest.net]
(Score: 1) by GeminiDomino on Friday March 28 2014, @04:08PM
Wow, cool. I've never heard of that. Might be worth watching, with the Mojang's been giving Minecraft the "Canonical" treatment over the last few versions.
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday March 28 2014, @05:05PM
I dug up an old version (sans online play) back from when they still had snow worlds. I think the last straw with me was when they fleshed out the Nether and added a gajillion different potions and weapon enchantments, and and and...
In other news, all the best PC games came out 1996-2000 ;-) Civ 2, Alpha Centauri, Space Empires 4, Over the Reich...
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @07:51AM
Meh... Doesn't even do decimals.
This is more impressive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgJfVRhotlQ [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by katterjohn on Friday March 28 2014, @08:52AM
...but that was pretty entertaining.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Friday March 28 2014, @10:24AM
And heat death is FAR from assured. Its possible we could have heat death OR the so called "dark matter/energy" that is pushing everything away from each other will give out, in which case gravity would take over and we could have a "big crunch", there are some theorists that think this may be cyclical, from big bang to expansion to big crunch. Then there are others but once you get into strings and multiple dimensions my brain threatens to asplode so I won't get into those.
So while this IS very cool to be cooked up in Minecraft (and thanks to the poster who put up Minetest, I'll fire it up first day off I get) just remember that heat death is only one of several theories currently being discussed.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Koen on Friday March 28 2014, @12:45PM
Who had thought that MultiVAX [multivax.com] would have been created in Minecraft?
/. refugees on Usenet: comp.misc [comp.misc]
(Score: 2) by Koen on Friday March 28 2014, @12:49PM
I originally typed "Multivac", then I saw the name of the site and "corrected" it into "MultiVAX".
Sometimes I should just trust my memory.
/. refugees on Usenet: comp.misc [comp.misc]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @09:56PM
thanx for the link to the story, it was good :-)
(Score: 1) by Buck Feta on Friday March 28 2014, @01:43PM
> time itself will die, and every moment will be like every other that will follow
Like waiting in the dentist's office then?
- fractious political commentary goes here -
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 28 2014, @02:56PM
I like it. He kinda, conveniently failed to mention what fantabulous invention he created to keep his minecraft hardware/software indefinitely running whilst all this was going on, and who was going to watch the door open. But hey, assumptions are assumed. Everyone forgets the "plus an infinite number of constants" from the good old E=mc^2 theory...