I’m not frightened by the approaching heat-death of the universe.

I’m going to leave that to my students.  Let them worry about it:

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/learning-to-chill-cd8f4fe607d4

Serves ’em right.

But it will be too bad, assuming that the universe is really all that there is and that it’s purely naturalistic, that Shakespeare, Little League coaching, Beethoven, service as Cub Scout den mothers, the Taj Mahal, Confucius, studying organic chemistry, Michelangelo, the Beatles, tending aged parents, Dante, learning to cook gourmet meals, Einstein, bandaging hurt knees, all the battles for freedom and justice, learning French, and Newton will ultimately have meant absolutely nothing, made no lasting difference of any kind at all.

Posted from Berlin, Germany