This Volume is cooling, losing heat and energy to entropic processes that we barely understand and cannot hope to stop. If this isn’t an important problem to you, then by what metric do you define any of your values? The stars will not be something we can take for granted forever – we need them, and they will need us, until we all must surrender to the evaporation of everything we know in the eternal sea of bubbles, each one a volume, like our own, but nothing more than a bubble in the foam of an ocean unlike anything we could ever hope to describe.
Ancient Wisdom… The stars were the true progenitors of life in this Volume – that is, the 93.5 billion diameter sphere of incomprehensible vastness that surrounds us while we are incarnate, spawned from the ashes of the first stars to die. It would be strange – that being the case, ensconced as we are in…