> Something in my mind tells me that there must be more to it, the careful balance of universal constants that allow for matter and stars and life to exist sure

> Something in my mind tells me that there must be more to it, the careful balance of universal constants that allow for matter and stars and life to exist surely would not allow it all to be destroyed forever in the end... Keep in mind that we don't really understand this stuff. "Dark matter" isn't a weird phase of matter, it's the name of the Keleven inserted because our observations of the universe don't match up with the theory. Ditto "dark energy." The expansion of the universe is accelerating and we don't know why. If we don't know why, we don't know it isn't going to stop tomorrow, or reverse, or happen differently based on where you are in the universe. The things we've already observed about relativity and quantum mechanics are very counter-intuitive. But at the same time, "I don't want it to" doesn't mean it's not going to happen. The arrow of time goes in one direction. We don't know how it ends until we get there.