[Senator Pardek]

Unfortunately the data appears to be pointing to this exact scenario.

But nowhere is it written that given enough time, a technology cannot be found to reverse this, no?

I wonder what the extremely bizzare beings of the future would choose -

Devote their energy to trying to keep entropy at bay to sustain themselves, or choose to try to create a Big Crunch - dooming themselves, while taking the gamble that another favorable Big Bang would occur, so that others may experience existence?

[PatrickHenry]

I wonder what the extremely bizzare beings of the future would choose - Devote their energy to trying to keep entropy at bay to sustain themselves, or choose to try to create a Big Crunch - dooming themselves, while taking the gamble that another favorable Big Bang would occur, so that others may experience existence?

If they could pull that many rabbits out of a hat, they should do both, and wait it out in their entropy bubble, while the new universe blossomed around them.