Because even if a universe’s life span is calculable, the variety of life that is generated within it is not. I hope that you were motivated by a desire for knowledge, a yearning to see what can arise from a universe’s exhalation. I hope that your expedition was more than a search for other universes to use as reservoirs.
I hope you are not saddened by that awareness. No matter how long it takes, eventually equilibrium will be reached. Your lives will end just as ours did, just as everyone’s must. I will assume that one day your thoughts too will cease, although I cannot fathom how far in the future that might be. But my speculations are fanciful enough already. Perhaps that is just a limitation of my thinking, and your people have discovered a source of pressure that is truly eternal. “I wish you well, explorer, but I wonder: Does the same fate that befell me await you? I can only imagine that it must, that the tendency toward equilibrium is not a trait peculiar to our universe but inherent in all universes.
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