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The heat-death of the universe need not bring an end to the computing age. A strange device known as a time crystal can theoretically continue to work as a computer even after the universe cools.

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    THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER. PUT THE TIME CRYSTAL IN MY CHEST, SAM.
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    If true, and if they are the only way of doing an infinite amount of complex computing, then with probability 1 we are...
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    at least we have billions and billions of years before the heat death of the universe to figure it out! :D
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    now this is the kind of content I like to see
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    This reminds me of Greg Egan’s Permutation City, when (spoilers)…
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