At some point in the future there will be somewhere in the universe where there will be a last sentient being. I thought I had made some kind of intellectual peace with that.īut this was an angle that I hadn’t thought of before. I thought I was aware and knowledgeable about our shared cosmic predicament - namely, that if what we think we know about physics and cosmology is true, life and intelligence are doomed. It was the saddest, loneliest idea I had ever contemplated. When I heard that statement during a showing of the film recently, it broke my heart. “There will be a last sentient being, there will be a last thought,” declared Janna Levin, a cosmologist at Barnard College, near the end of “A Trip to Infinity,” a new Netflix documentary directed by Jonathan Halperin and Drew Takahashi. The End is coming, in maybe 100 billion years.
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