https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2019/05/06/40120983/humans-in-the-future-will-abandon-the-universe-the-same-way-humans-in-the-past-abandoned-god
This poses an interesting concept, our "universe" is but a small area of a whole that is in thermal equilibrium, but small area can experience non equilibrium, thus giving rise to the concept of time within them.
