How would a civilization look like after moving to a Nascent Universe? (Cosmogenesis ending)

[TreeCloudGrass]

How would a civilization look like after moving to a Nascent Universe? (Cosmogenesis ending)

They would have practically unliminted sources of energy, and also the ability to create/manufacture whatever they wanted.

How much would *our* world look like, if everyone had all the electricity/heating/cooling and food they wanted, despite nobody having to actually work a job in those industries.
Raw materials could simply be created on the spot; you humans recently had an article in Nature about physicists literally turning lead into gold for a fraction of a second, scaling that up would be trivial in a nascent universe.
So, probably we could have a "3D printer" or "Star-Trek-like-replicator" that would just print us the new iPhone or xx90 graphics card at home.
Someone would still have to design it, though.

Money wouldn't really work, it would be difficult to pay someone for their work if that someone already had everything they thought they wanted.

Would it be just... a hedonistic party, with people creating and sharing art just for the sake of it - or "likes"? The only scarcity that would remain possible would be scarcity of thought; we could have anything we imagined, so we would lack only what we could not imagine.

We still wouldn't have The Winds of Winter

 

[Sibericus]

It would ultimately depend on the society that goes into it. It could be a Utopian " everybody parties for eons" situation. Or it could be turn into a Dystopian Thaumatarchy, where those in control treat the common folks as helpless toys to torment as they see fit. It could be an Environmentalist/ Agrarian society that fills it with Idyllic worlds that span light eons, or they could turn it into an eternal industrial hellscape because they don't have any better ideas on how to build a universe.

 

[IMyrmidon]

The only cosmogenesis ending I've gotten is the special ending for meeting all your production goals as an obsessive directive empire, so from my experience the new universe looks like high quality consumer electronics forever.

 

[HFY]

We still wouldn't have The Winds of Winter

You monster.

 

[Gundabadguy]

The text is vague enough that we can imagine the new universe to be whatever suits our Empire. After all, if an evil autocracy was able to create a universe that suited its nation's ideals, then it probably wouldn't be a post scarcity utopia (at least for the commoners).

 

[Nabil ad Dajjal]

If a nascent universe is anything like how we understand cosmology to have worked in our universe, the normal matter portion should consist of a relatively small but rapidly expanding cloud of very hot hydrogen and helium gases / plasmas with few or no 'metals' (i.e., any heavier elements, including carbon or oxygen). There would almost certainly be no stars or planetary bodies, just a kind of undifferentiated cloud of hot matter.

Given the wacky SF tropes cosmogenesis leans into, I'd choose to interpret that as having a blank canvas for creating a bespoke cosmos. You get to decide whether there are stars and if so where and in what formations, how and whether heavier elements are deposited, how quickly or slowly the universe expands or contracts, etc. So less something like the Federation in Star Trek and more like God in Genesis.