Recently i have been "borrowing" my friends Netflix account from him with permission. I have started the TV show Futurama from episode 1. Almost every episode has some sort of philosopy in it because they deal with alternate universes, change, and time travel. One episode that i realized was basically directly out of Sophie's World was titled "The Infosphere".
The Infoshpere was about an invention called the forward time machine. It played on the phylosphy of what would happen if the universe ended and do things actually change. The problem occuring in the episode is that 3 of the main characters can't get back to their time because whenever they travel forward to find a time machine, they always make a mistake and move too far. Eventually after 21 minutes, they have traveled through the end of the universe and seen another big bang, creating the exact same universe and they stop at their time, landing and killing themselves of this new Universe.
This is a lot like what Democritus thought in Sophie's world. He thought nothing changed and the atoms just separated. The universe was gone but still intact because it just had to have another big boom. The only problem was that the time travelers had themselves in the new universe so that was the only change. Or maybe it never happened because the new universe shouold have traveled forward if it was exactly the same.....
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