If you are reading this, that means that I have left this universe and that you are an intelligent species. If you are wondering who I am, or perhaps by now, was, I am a member of the species Sapientia. We are celestial organisms who are capable of inter-universal travel. My name is Discipulus. By now, you must be excessively confused. To cure you of your state of perplexity, let me start from the beginning.
A googol years before I wrote this book, I was a disinclined boy. I would never be willing to accept my shortcomings or errors. My reaction to the persistence of my parents to force me to explore was no different. To provide context, my species, Sapientia was aware of all information that ever existed. I would often state this fact to contradict my parents’ assertions about exploration, but, one day, their reluctance exceeded mine. They wanted, no, they insisted on me going to a new universe to observe. I was given two rules, I would live there for one hundred Sapientia years and I would not interact with the universe. Since my parents insisted on this, I had to go. So, I prepared myself and on the day of departure, I left our plane of existence to experience a new world.
Once there, I noticed the virtual absence of life, matter, and space. Approximately two centimeters away from me lay an infinitesimally small structure. Its luminosity prevented me from directly looking at it. Suddenly, the structure expanded. Little did I know, at that instance that “ball” contained everything that would ever exist. Its inflation occurred for a fraction of a second, although I perceived the expanding space before I saw it. An unquantifiable amount of light passed through my eyes. Multiple minute particles accelerated at extreme speeds. These minute particles started to coalesce into matter. Other typically unobservable particles like dark matter dominated the universe and a strange fluctuation traversed through space. Unbeknownst to me, this fluctuation the size of my head would eventually lock the universe into unceasing darkness. Over a few more seconds, nothing much occurred. The fog created during the mass inflation ended and matter started to combine into larger objects. But after these insignificant moments, this life-accommodating universe was truly born. The first star formed due to the initiation of thermonuclear fusion. I could see that characteristic twinkle in the abyss. After the birth of this star, others came into existence. For the first time in four hundred million Earth years, the universe was full of light. Dark matter caused the gravitational attraction of matter, nebulae, and stars to each other, leading to the creation of galaxies. At the center of these galaxies resided black holes, capable of capturing but never returning light, the fastest particle in this universe. A few of my years passed. In those years, I observed the violent endings of stars, the decay of minute particles into other particles, and the collision of large clumps of matter. They truly were spectacles. But one particular occurrence intrigued me. This occurrence would give me my vocabulary for this universe. The occurrence I am referring to is the formation of the “Solar System”. Well, why is the formation of this system the most intriguing, they occur all the time. Well, this system harbored the first life that I had seen ever since I left my home, humans. They lived on a minute planet approximately 147 million kilometres away from their star. Although they were arrogant, illogical, inefficient, and at times cruel, they were tantalizing to watch. They fought with each other and killed each other, but they also worked with one another and aided each other. They gave me words to express my observations. Sapientians are aware of everything, but we cannot express them. They did not last long. My species was eradicated during the expansion of our star into a red giant. I was unhappy about their demise, but I valued the time I had to observe them. I would go on to observe a multitude of civilizations, from some whose names would never end to others whose names cannot be expressed in any language except their own due to their unique vocal structure. Eventually, the effects of that fluctuation in space that I mentioned earlier started to become apparent. It caused the expansion of matter and accelerated space to speeds faster than light. After a point, objects were moving so fast that it would be impossible to ever reach any other form of matter. 70 Sapientia years after I had left, the last stars started to die. Their glow was redshifted due to my acceleration, so it became nearly impossible to see them. 90 Sapientian years later, the entire universe saw its last source of light vanish. All that remained was Black holes and that fluctuation, dark energy. In my last ten Sapientian years, I watched as the ultimate prisons of the universe, black holes, faded out of existence in a final ultimate light display. Eventually, it was time to leave. As I started to write, I saw these images flash through my eyes. They were light rays emitted from things billions of Earth years ago. One of them even showed me an image of Earth and the humans that inhabited it.
We finally come to the present. It is my time to leave, but I would like to leave my final learning in this now-dead universe. I learnt that time is not infinite, everything will eventually fade out of existence, and that I should cherish every moment I get. Who knows, maybe one day I shall create my own universe just like this one, but until then, this is my final message to this universe, as it grew, I grew with it.
Signed,
Discipulus
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