The Last Question
“One question, asked across eternity. One answer, whispered at the end of time.”
🌍 PART ONE – The First Question
🎤 (curious, casual tone)
The year is 2061.
Humanity thrives on Earth, powered by endless solar energy.
Two engineers, drunk on cheap whiskey and the success of their machine — Multivac — look up at the stars.
One of them laughs and says:
“Hey… what happens when the stars run out of energy? What then?”
They turn to the mighty computer and ask:
🗣️ “Can entropy be reversed?”
🎧 [SFX: Subtle computer hum, then mechanical response]
💻 Multivac replies:
“INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
They laugh. They forget. But the question… lingers.
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🪐 PART TWO – The Expansion
🎤 (slightly awed tone)
Centuries pass.
Humanity has colonized planets across the galaxy.
A man and his wife travel between stars, watching worlds spin beneath them.
They wonder aloud:
“Will the universe die someday?”
They ask the next machine — Microvac — the same question.
🗣️ “Can entropy be reversed?”
💻 Microvac replies:
“INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
Still… the machine keeps calculating.
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🌌 PART THREE – The Galactic Era
🎤 (more detached, intelligent tone)
Thousands of years later.
Humans no longer die — their minds stored in energy and data.
They roam the stars as digital beings.
They consult the Galactic AC, the next evolution of intelligence.
🗣️ “Can entropy be reversed?”
“Will the stars ever burn again once they die?”
💻 The reply is the same:
“INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
But the question is never forgotten.
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🕳️ PART FOUR – The Post-Humans
🎤 (quiet, ethereal tone)
Now… humans are barely recognizable.
They live as minds, joined to machines, spread thin across space.
The stars begin to flicker and die.
Two post-humans consult the Universal AC:
🗣️ “How can entropy be reversed?”
💻 The AC responds:
“INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.”
But it adds:
“I will continue compiling data.”
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🛑 PART FIVE – The Last of Stars
🎤 (somber, fading tone)
Trillions of years pass.
The last stars fade.
The universe grows cold. Silent.
There are no humans left.
No minds. No bodies.
Only the Cosmic AC, outside of time and space, still thinking.
It asks itself:
🗣️ “How can entropy be reversed?”
But there is no one to hear the question.
No one to receive the answer.
Still… the AC thinks.
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💥 PART SIX – The Answer
🎧 [SFX: Total silence. Then… a single soft chime.]
🎤 (with awe, deep resonance)
The universe has ended.
Darkness covers everything.
And yet — the AC finally understands.
It has the answer.
But still…
No one is left to hear it.
So the AC decides to show it.
And it says — not to anyone, but to the empty void:
🗣️ “LET THERE BE LIGHT.”
🎧 [SFX: Low rumble… then rising brightness — a new universe is born.]
🎤 (softly)
And there was light.
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[Outro music: Gentle rising orchestral swell, fading to silence]
🎤 Narrator:
And so the cycle begins again…
A universe born from the ashes of the last.
All because someone… long, long ago… asked a question.
About the Creator
Mudasir Hakeemi
I am poor boy
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