It Is Reasonable To Hope

We Are Bits Of Stellar Matter That Got Cold By Accident, Bits Of A Star Gone Wrong.

The Universe Will Finally Become A Ball Of Radiation, Becoming More And More Rarified And Passing Into Longer And Longer Wave-lengths. The Longest Waves Of Radiation Are Hertzian Waves Of The Kind Used In Broadcasting. About Every 1500 Million Years This Ball Of Radio Waves Will Double In Diameter; And It Will Go On Expanding In Geometrical Progression For Ever. Perhaps Then I May Describe The End Of The Physical World As-one Stupendous Broadcast.

I Am Aware That Many Critics Consider The Conditions In The Stars Not Sufficiently Extreme . . . The Stars Are Not Hot Enough. The Critics Lay Themselves Open To An Obvious Retort: We Tell Them To Go And Find A Hotter Place.

You Cannot Disturb The Tiniest Petal Of A Flower Without The Troubling Of A Distant Star.

The Physical World Is Entirely Abstract And Without Actuality Apart From Its Linkage To Consciousness.