yaah said:
I guess no one else wants to discuss the end of the world.
I had fully intended to continue discussing the end of the world! I had merely lost the thread in my excitement about scutsheet templates
😀 Thanks for the bump.
yaah, you depict a more plausible scenario. I brought in Saturn-with-a-bang just for dramatic effect.
yaah said:
The actual end of the world, however, is not going to be instantaneous.
See now, that would depend on how you define "instantaneous".
Even if Saturn - or some other large puttering object - should be on collision course with the Earth, I don't think that most lives would be lost at the point of impact, but more so in the secondary processes that would take place as a result of the collision.
So from the perspective of a human being caught in a tsunami wave secondary to said collision, death would not be instantaneous. Drowning takes a while, especially if you know how to swim.
If it were a big enough bang that the Earth was blown into smithereens (which from the prospect of a human being would still be a chunk large enough to cling to), those of us who weren't killed would likely drift for a while into the dissipating stratosphere before finally asphyxiating.
I disagree that the end of the world for each individual is an instantaneous process (I presume you mean the moment of death). When is a person dead? When all cells are dead? When the soul leaves the body?
Cells die at different rates. And the soul takes a while to leave the body.
Apart from the fact that with every passing day we are dying
😛 , I suppose I could for argument's sake say that there is a point where we start on the road towards dying that is irreversible.
That though, is still not the moment or the point of death. Even as the heroine flutters her eyes closed and slumps into the spasmodic arms of her sobbing Neo, the body is continuing to die, cell by cell.
(I don't know about the soul, as I have not died before.)
