I've died...another statistic of the inevitable fate for all of life. Here I am, no longer attached to mortal strings and I am left without answers. What was to become of the world? Of the collision course between our galaxy and Andromeda? What was to become of the universe? Such a terrible fate to endure, to be surrounded by a universe so beautiful and mysterious yet forced to die never knowing the outcome or the even the secrets behind the mystical machinations of it's intricate process. Death...bah! Such a fate, to be traveling so much slower than light and being forced into a conscious idea of time. Time, a progression of moments that we are only conscious to because of our ability to perceive light. Relativity is truly profound in the aspect of time and light, Einstein theorized that the speed of light was constant through a vacuum in space and the same for any observer in the universe that remained in relative motion to those being observed. The speed of light being so great is such that no known particle has the energy potential to reach the speed of a photon, and in it's approach finds that time approaches zero. At the speed of light time ceases to flow, for space and time is directly related and the speed at which the photon moves essentially keeps time negligible. In essence, a photon does not possess any concept for time and only knows itself being emitted and reaching it's destination. Traveling at 300,000 km/s the photon instantaneously is absorbed by our focal lenses with no time passing in between. A free photon particle in empty space with an unhindered path will see the end of the universe in the blink of an eye.
I'm still dead though and strangely enough my consciousness remains...such a peculiar predicament.I see nothing, just darkness in all directions. It takes a moment to realize, or perhaps it took billions of years, it's quite difficult to tell when the enveloping darkness distorts the passing of time. But alas the epiphany comes...here spread out before me is space. Completely empty but unmistakably the infinite unknown. There is nothing, only emptiness, for all the stars and cosmic matter has disappeared and the universe has returned to it's natural state, empty and devoid of light. Still my mind courses with reminiscent thoughts concerning the magnificently beautiful universe and the complex system of physics that governs it's operation. How a photon only knows the end...wait! Another epiphany! My death would mean that my conscious presence towards time is null and void, causing time to be zero. If so, upon death my consciousness traveled at the speed of light and found itself at the end of everything. And so here I face a vast nothingness where billions of years pass like seconds, and each successive moment brings only darkness to the vast emptiness. It's quite depressing though not at all surprising.
In addition to my epiphany, the realization that my consciousness can travel at the speed of light under my will comes naturally. Possessing the ability to to travel so fast allows my conscious mind to travel against the flow of time, and unfold the cataclysmic events pertaining to the end of all matter. As I travel faster I begin to see matter reappearing and condensing into the last dim stars of the once dying universe. Massive explosions from dying stars appear and condense, thus revealing the ancient dynamic of matter and space. Just like life, matter lives and decays. In the decay the material is reformed and used to create new matter, just as the stars do. As the energy and gravity increases the star reduces in size until the internal energy is so great that the star instantaneously releases it all in a cloud of hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, Iron and many more elements that have been found to be crucial on earth. The quantities of matter spread themselves out in the explosive diameter of the blast but gravity once again gravity prevails and pulls the matter back in towards the center, condensing into a new massive celestial object. As time reverses, this dynamic is observed and marveled at. The presence of the stars and planets spread out throughout space and time resemble atoms in a molecular structure. Each cluster of matter containing energy and reacting towards the cluster of matter beside it, as if the universe is some anatomic structure of something much greater than my conscience can even comprehend.
Still, something must be amiss, for light is not privy to the progression of moments that comprise of time and yet as I travel I still view the expanse of space folding out before me...I must have lost speed. I increase my acceleration once again actually surpass the photon in speed and immediately I am met with another vast emptiness...perhaps I went too far. Perhaps my increase in velocity has brought me to the beginning of space. Before any more thoughts can formulate an overwhelming feeling of pressure is felt and followed by an extravagant light deep in the darkest recesses of space. Far in the distance the light slowly grows, the explosive reaction throwing particles and energy into free space and establishing the relationships that modern physics would later be based on. In one instantaneous moment every bit of energy in the universe is created, and the elements that comprise of every material in the known world start to form in the fiery furnaces of young stars. Their explosions throw matter into space and is used to form planets, and eventually the milky way galaxy.
Finally through death I have achieved the ability to view the universe from beginning to end, from the end to the beginning. Even still, with the creation of everything before me the meaning of life still remains absent. In relation to the existence of space, life on earth is but a fleeting moment. When time is more easily measured in billions of years rather than minutes and seconds life becomes meaningless. Yet as intelligent life we have gained the ability to acknowledge our place among the stars. Our intelligence is so that the smartest of our species have been able to use mathematics, a man made concept, to interpret the intricate dynamics of space. Being conscious to our place among the greater system of things has completely set us apart in the universe, and yet our efforts will eventually be for nothing. Distances between solar systems are so great that other intelligent life would never be reached if any exists. The world due to natural cycles of the cosmos will be destroyed before two intelligent species interact with each other, and thus the knowledge from either species would be lost forever. I have seen the end of time, and only darkness exists. Any concept of light, matter and time is lost to the enveloping nothingness and so even if intelligent life did interact with each other, in the end nothing remains. No science, no religion, nothing. Eventually, even the universe dies...
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