15th June 2005, 8:07 AM
But most things that burn out don't have one last bright flare. They do just get dimmer and dimmer until poof. Not in a bang, but in a wimper do most things vanish, like the UNIVERSE for example.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)