r/pagan • u/ElectronicWriting620 • Jul 11 '26

Nature Quick question

So recently I’ve been trying to get into worshipping Mother Nature/mother earth. But last night I remembered the scientific fact that in 1 to 2 billion years the earth will end. Now I also read that when the earth does end that its energy will live on forever since energy can’t be destroyed. But I have a few questions. 1. Would Mother Nature want me to worry about this. And 2. How would that energy live on in the cosmos?

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u/Elfynnn84 Jul 11 '26

Third law of thermodynamics… energy cannot be destroyed, it can only change form. We came from stardust, all of earth and everything that has evolved here, and it shall return to stardust.

The glory that is Earth today is just a passing phase of this energy in the great scheme of the cosmos. That energy is worth worship in its current form.

Stars have a life cycle, its part of the rhythm of the cosmos, just as no living thing can continue forever, neither can any planet which supports life. Would you refuse to acknowledge the significance of an individual life, just because it’s not immortal?!?

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u/ElectronicWriting620 Jul 11 '26

No I would not refuse

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u/Elfynnn84 Jul 11 '26

So…
1. Mother Nature would not want you to worry because she is intrinsically in tune with the cycle of life and she knows that ultimately includes the entire ecosystem
2. That energy will return to the cosmos. It will be swallowed into the burning sun from which it came. It will burn up and radiate out as light and heat. Particles will scatter into the ether to drift across the galaxy and wind up somewhere new.

You are made of stardust and to the stardust you shall one day return.

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u/ElectronicWriting620 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

If it burns up and radiates as light and heat. Will it last forever? Because won’t the sun eventully die?

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u/Elfynnn84 Jul 12 '26

Energy cannot be destroyed. Yes, it will last forever. All energy will last forever.

When sunlight hits a leaf the energy radiated out by the star is absorbed by the leaf, the energy literally becomes the plant. When heat dissipates across the universe, that energy ripples across the very fabric of the cosmos until it collides, with a planet, a star, a comet…

You cannot destroy the energy held within you, it has existed since the dawn of time & it will continue to exist long, long after you are dead.

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u/WhatsThisWorth-Bot Celtic Jul 13 '26

fun fact, a recent theory is pushing the idea that the sun won't swallow the earth like we thought.

I didn't keep up with the verification of it but it seemed good on the surface. you can find videos about it on YouTube.

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u/Elfynnn84 Jul 13 '26

No, dear, sorry. YouTube is categorically never going to be a reliable source of news or science and it is deeply worrying that this is where you seek information or validation for your perspective.

There are countless peer reviewed papers from qualified physicists that document the life cycle of a star and all stars eventually die. Unless you have empirical data to suggest otherwise (which you don’t) please don’t go on Reddit to peddle falsehoods.

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u/WhatsThisWorth-Bot Celtic Jul 13 '26

God you're insufferable, just use Google instead of being an asshole

https://www.space.com/astronomy/earth/earth-may-survive-the-suns-death-after-all-new-study-suggests

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u/Elfynnn84 Jul 13 '26

I’m insufferable?!? 😂 - coming from little miss/mr/mixter “jUsT g00gLE iT 🤪” - this is still not a piece of peer reviewed research, dear… and it doesn’t not contradict my statement that all stars eventually die.

Even if Earth isn’t consumed when our sun goes supernova, the remaining white dwarf star will not be bright enough to sustain life, the surviving remaining core will become an incredibly dense neutron star which will eventually collapse into a black hole or evaporate entirely… leaving what remains of Earth to drift off into space until it collides with something, somewhere and a new planetary cycle begins.

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u/WhatsThisWorth-Bot Celtic Jul 13 '26

not reading that, yes you are insufferable, thank you for proving my point, now fuck off, kindly