From Hillary Shaw
Living on a crowded island, I find the idea of our universe evolving into an empty, starless, bleak, cold nothingness – with odd little objects popping up occasionally – rather intriguing (18 August, p 26). As Mason Inman says, anything could emerge – a rock, a chair, even a brain.
Wait long enough and maybe we’d get an entire planet Earth, complete with sun to warm it and other planets (as optional extras). Wait a really long time and we’d get all the stars in the heavens, too. Then someone in my office on a crowded island under those stars will be writing you a letter about how their universe will thin and empty, and odd little objects will pop up, like rocks, brains, another Earth, another sun…
Newport, Shropshire, UK
