If we take the laws of physics and the rules of the Universe at face value, the slow, gradual death of everything in the Universe is our ultimate fate. If we were born just a few hundred billion years later, we might never have known the cosmic story that led us toward this inevitable end. Nonetheless, we possess substantial knowledge regarding the distant future of our cosmos. There will come a time when the galaxies beyond our own will no longer be visible. Following that, a period will arrive when all the stars have been extinguished, and even the remnants of these stars have faded into obscurity.

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