Until the End of Time: The Search for the Ultimate Meaning of the Universe, Life, and Consciousness

Introduction

In fact, the reality you and I, and everyone else, are experiencing right now, may be happening over and over again in many other universes. Each history will be repeated infinitely many times. But even so, life and consciousness will eventually vanish, and all creation will dissipate into the void. In such a universe, how should humans deal with themselves?

Evolution brings order, entropy returns everything to chaos. Guided by these two intertwined principles, the author, who has been pondering the principles of the universe for many years, integrates multidisciplinary insights and takes us from the birth of the universe with a romantic brushstroke that blends science and humanities, witnessing how the structures in the universe (including stars, galaxies, etc.), life, and consciousness may have come into being, and what magnificent products consciousness, especially human thinking, has brought to the universe and ourselves... Until we imagine and face the grand and bleak but inevitable "end of time" and "twilight of all things", what kind of gains, enlightenment, meaning and comfort can we still get from thinking, a form of activity that is almost impossible?