The Last Sonnet of All
\nby cricketjeff on June 12, 2018.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nWhen countless billion years have passed away
\nAnd stars and galaxies have slowly died;
\nWhen every lonely planet’s had its day
\nAnd there are no more questions to decide.<\/p>\n
Neutrinos will still whiz without a care
\nDark matter will still orbit quite unseen
\nThere’ll be no final nebulae to flare
\nAnd nothing will reveal where they have been<\/p>\n
Long after life has given up the ghost,
\nWith no-one left to mourn departed friends.
\nThe greatest site this universe could boast
\nWill bring about the greatest of all ends.<\/p>\n
When there’s no other matter to erode,
\nThen one by one the black holes will explode.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nBlack holes are not quite black. As Stephen Hawking discovered they evaporate.
\nThe smaller they are the faster this happens. As a result when all other
\nmatter, dark matter and anything else has been eaten the black holes will start
\nto shrink. It will take trillions of years\u00a0 but eventually each black hole will
\nfall below a critical mass and what remains will boil away in a massive
\nexplosion of gamma rays. Something like the mass of the Moon being converted to
\nenergy in a billionth of a second should be quite a firework display!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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