Have you ever thought of any headcannons or fanfictions based on cosmology of the universe?
I wonder what you can do with such topics. Heat Death was not in fact the favoured attitude at the time Sailor Moon was written to describe what would become of the Universe. It was only about 35 years before Codename Sailor V was written that astronomers were split, with no large majority either way, for the Big Bang vs the Steady State Universe. Ironically at the time it was the Big Bang that was considered too theological and the atheist Soviets supported the Steady State model for most of its existence. The Steady State model suggests that the universe has always existed, always will, and is generally unchanging, even though galaxies and stars may move and form and dissolve over time within a constant universe (who believed in such a thing? No less a mind as Einstein in fact. Only in 1965 with a form of radiation discovered was it enough to push the astronomers towards a consensus).
You don't have to be tethered to reality if you don't want to, and plenty of models will work with the other two ideas I was referring to, the cyclical Big Crunch model and Steady State, and the Big Bang also creates interesting questions for the idea of a Senshi based on celestial bodies and systems. You can do it even more interestingly if you go back in thinking to when the Milky Way was thought to be the only galaxy (and in the future, for complex dark energy reasons, if we ever lose knowledge of the Big Bang, we won't be able to learn that the Milky Way ever was not the only galaxy or that the steady state theory is wrong), only another generation before was that thought to be the case, well within living memory for the people who first read Sailor Moon.
Reincarnation, rebirth, renewal, they are all prominent themes in Sailor Moon, which is also probably tied to Buddhist philosophy too (not specifically meant to be, but it's a bigger part of the basis of thought for many people in Japan than it would be for us).
I wonder what you can do with such topics. Heat Death was not in fact the favoured attitude at the time Sailor Moon was written to describe what would become of the Universe. It was only about 35 years before Codename Sailor V was written that astronomers were split, with no large majority either way, for the Big Bang vs the Steady State Universe. Ironically at the time it was the Big Bang that was considered too theological and the atheist Soviets supported the Steady State model for most of its existence. The Steady State model suggests that the universe has always existed, always will, and is generally unchanging, even though galaxies and stars may move and form and dissolve over time within a constant universe (who believed in such a thing? No less a mind as Einstein in fact. Only in 1965 with a form of radiation discovered was it enough to push the astronomers towards a consensus).
You don't have to be tethered to reality if you don't want to, and plenty of models will work with the other two ideas I was referring to, the cyclical Big Crunch model and Steady State, and the Big Bang also creates interesting questions for the idea of a Senshi based on celestial bodies and systems. You can do it even more interestingly if you go back in thinking to when the Milky Way was thought to be the only galaxy (and in the future, for complex dark energy reasons, if we ever lose knowledge of the Big Bang, we won't be able to learn that the Milky Way ever was not the only galaxy or that the steady state theory is wrong), only another generation before was that thought to be the case, well within living memory for the people who first read Sailor Moon.
Reincarnation, rebirth, renewal, they are all prominent themes in Sailor Moon, which is also probably tied to Buddhist philosophy too (not specifically meant to be, but it's a bigger part of the basis of thought for many people in Japan than it would be for us).
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