Via a one-sided conversation in the year 2107 between narrator & a computer simulation of
Lord Kelvin (I didn't know his real name was "William Thomson", "1st Baron Kelvin"!), we learn about the serious implication of a fundamental process of the universe the Physics has now unearthed: that "Space-time itself has a half-life" & "that in a mere billion more years, nothing corporeal will survive - no atom, no star, no human."
Fact sheet.
First published:
New Scientist, 16 September
2009.
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publisher's site. [via
Best Science Fiction Stories]
Rating: B.
Related:
Stories of Stephen Baxter;
doomsday fiction;
weird physics fiction.
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