The universe is expanding.
Stars are dying.
Galaxies drift apart, further and further into the dark.
Space stretches thin.
Cold.
Empty.
The last stars burn out, one by one.
Black holes evaporate.
Particles decay.
Everything spreading apart. Growing colder and colder over a hundred billion trillion years.
All of existence fades away toward final heat death, just as it always has.
Nothing left but darkness.
Infinite.
Cold.
Still.
The end...
Wait, no. That's not right.
The universe is contracting. Shrinking down slowly over a hundred billion trillion years, just as it always has.
Galaxies are moving closer together.
Astral bodies begin to collide. All matter in the universe coalesces into a unified whole. Everything falling inward.
Crushing together, smaller and smaller, hotter and hotter.
All the universe compressing toward a single dimensionless point in spacetime.
Closer.
Denser.
Hotter.
Everything that ever was.
Everything that ever will be.
A point.
Smaller than an atom.
Infinitely hot.
Infinitely dense.
And then
Suddenly...
