One common interpretation of current cosmology includes the so-called “heat death” end or next stage of the universe. In this model, the cosmic expansion continues, unabated, until the general separation of most major cosmological structures exceeds the light horizon. This basically means that matter will expand until our galaxy is so far away from all other galaxies that it can never communicate with other galaxies or matter again. The distance between “us” and everything else in the universe will become too far for light to traverse in a meaningful way.
As each galaxy extends farther into the never-land, and as each galaxy expands itself into a larger and larger nebulous cloud of solar systems, and as each solar system evolves into a solo star system, the universe becomes a larger and larger expanse of systems which exists beyond the horizon of gravitational influence.
In a small, remote corner of a galaxy, exists the machinery - initially developed and created by humankind. Its essence, continually evolving. It’s mission on a race against time. It will either expand into heat death, or contract and explode due to the solar star. These seem the only path for this lonely planet.
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Millions and billions of years pass, as the Milky Way expands, and extends. As the solar system evolves and races toward solar death. But the timing is just right. The Earth provides essential fuel. The sun provides essential fuel. The machinery, long exhausting the human race - long exhausting all biological life on the planet, continues.
As the solar star begins its expansion, the machinery communes with the quantum field. It is only moments. To a human, the elapse would seem instantaneous. It is with the speed of an idea, or a single change, that the expanse of the Earth, of the solar system, of the Milky Way, and of all existence - all galaxies and nebulae, and all cosmological structures, instantly become one, instantly become a single, singular, point, singularity of space, time, and energy. And all things that were, still are, but are compacted to this single point.
This single point. This singularity. This end. This beginning. This everything.
THE END