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Oblique

by StateShift

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Morning Sun 04:39
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2.
Chattering 06:35
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Granite and White 04:21
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Lightness 05:51
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Oh Three Hundred 05:29
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There 06:59
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Anywhere 13:17
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Foothills 09:35
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Love But Not 13:28
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Tumbling Shadow 08:14
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Bare 03:03
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Sandcastles 04:33
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about

The universe is dying.

A few billion years ago the expansion of the universe started speeding up. Distant galaxies are getting farther apart faster and faster. Star formation has slowed. Of all the stars that have ever been born, or ever will be, around ninety percent have already come into being. From now until the end of time the universe is working on just that last ten percent.

The end is coming.

There are a few ways it can happen but the most likely is called the heat death. And it's an agonising, slow languishing of the cosmos. Stars burn out and leave smouldering ash, galaxies become increasingly isolated in their own dim pools of light, particles decay. Even black holes evaporate into the void.

Of course we still have some time. The heat death is so far in the future we barely have words to describe it. Long passed a billion years when the sun expands and boils off the oceans of the earth. Long passed a hundred billion years when we lose the ability to see distant galaxies and that faint trace of Big Bang light. Long after we are left alone in the darkness watching the Milky Way fade.

There will come a time when, in a very real sense, our existence will not have mattered. The slate will be wiped clean completely. Why should we spend our lives seeking answers to the ultimate questions of reality if, eventually, there will be no-one left to tell? Why build a sandcastle when you can see that the tide is coming in?

For this brief moment we are here. We may be insignificant to the cosmos as a whole, but we have an immense power to understand it. To see the beginning. To contemplate the end. To look up into the sky and see ourselves reflected in every tiny point of light.

There is a kind of luxury in the freedom to look beyond our own little lives and contemplate the end of everything. We fragile, doomed humans carry within us a sense of discovery and wonder. It will persist as long as there are thinking beings in the cosmos. And we can decide how to use it.

Katie Mack. TED talks. The death of the universe - and what it means for life. www.ted.com/talks/katie_mack_the_death_of_the_universe_and_what_it_means_for_life.

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released June 10, 2021

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