Eventually, nothingness, no matter what we do - the increase in entropy cannot be stopped. That's an incredibly powerful thing though - if you can redirect the

Eventually, nothingness, no matter what we do - the increase in entropy cannot be stopped. That's an incredibly powerful thing though - if you can redirect the increase in entropy so that it happens in a direction that causes useful order in one particular part of the system, you can use the increase in entropy to create immensely useful things. That's essentially what life is - a clever pump that uses the universe's inevitable increase in entropy to organise a small part of a small planet into copies of itself and increasingly complex systems, in much the same way as a ram pump uses the flow of a large amount of water downhill to pump a small amount up. Not forever, of course, only for a few billion years which in cosmic terms is almost nothing. In human terms though that's still a lot.