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5 days agoCosmic inflation explains the Universe's low entropy at birth
Entropy in the Universe is continuously increasing, leading towards a maximum entropy state known as the heat death.
Star-formation will eventually end, and then the last shining stars will burn out. Galaxies will dissociate due to gravitational interactions, ejecting all masses and leaving only supermassive black holes behind. And then those black holes will decay via Hawking radiation, leaving only cold, stable, isolated bodies, from which no further energy can be extracted, all accelerating away from us within our dark energy-dominated Universe.
Going all the way back to ancient times - sometimes attributed to Persia, other times to King Solomon, and still at other times to far eastern sources - one of the most important reminders of the transient nature of all things, good and bad, is encapsulated in the simple saying, "this too shall pass." Both joy and sorrow are temporary, as is life itself.