The Sin­gu­lar­ity again, but this time a Grav­i­ta­tional (or Space­time) Sin­gu­lar­ity. Specif­i­cally the one at the end of exis­tence of the universe.

The Omega Point is the moment dur­ing the the­o­ret­i­cal Big Crunch when — just before the final, all-ending grav­i­ta­tional sin­gu­lar­ity — “the com­pu­ta­tional capac­ity of the uni­verse is capa­ble of increas­ing at a suf­fi­cient rate that is accel­er­at­ing expo­nen­tially faster than the time run­ning out.” What exactly does that mean?

In prin­ci­ple, a sim­u­la­tion run on [a the­o­ret­i­cal] uni­ver­sal com­puter can con­tinue for­ever in its own terms, even though the uni­verse lasts only a finite amount of proper time. This the­ory requires that the cur­rent known laws of physics are true descrip­tions of real­ity, and it requires there be intel­li­gent civ­i­liza­tions in exis­tence at the appro­pri­ate time to exploit the com­pu­ta­tional capac­ity of such an environment.

An enlight­en­ing read that pushes the bounds on the mean­ing of the word ‘the­o­ret­i­cal’. How­ever, it did lead me to a con­tender for ‘The Great­est Named Wikipedia Entry’ com­pe­ti­tion: The Ulti­mate Fate of the Uni­verse.