The final paradox

The inevitability is built into the very nature of the universe. As such this is not a prophecy of destruction, or a prediction. It is a fact of human nature, or of the nature of curiosity and ineptitude in unequal amounts.

Once life formed the universe's doom was sealed. Life is curious, evolution is an expression of that curiosity, at every step life moves on towards the beginning of understanding the cosmos. Sentient life becomes aware of itself and develops the ability to invent new ways to interact with it's surroundings.

The power of invention leads to destruction as easily as creation. The endeavours of life forms to improve their understanding leads to mastery of all the universe's mightiest secrets. Forces of nature such as electricity, atomics, and even time.

But in all the trials of intellect failures are inevitable. Errors in judgement, arrogant blunders and foolish mistakes can be assumed universal. As such weapons are hilt and put to use by the warmonger and even the least lethal of breakthroughs are abused.

So it comes to the fantasy of time travel. If it is possible will it find it's masters wise enough for it's application? Surely not. We consider the possibility of paradoxically preventing our own existence by killing our grandfathers. But I suggest there is one inevitable paradox, the final paradox. In our thirst for knowledge, our effort to satisfy the drive of curiosity we will fulfil our primary purpose. The suicide of the cosmos. We will apply the technology of time travel to investigate the the primal origins.

In so doing the playground for our folly will include that most delicate of play things, and in our clumsy hands will rest all the beginnings of existence. We will be trusted to keep safe all the cosmos and of course we'll break it. We will be the undoing of everything. Inevitably we will produce the final paradox - that the universe will create a creature that will prevent the existence of the universe that created it.