Sack of Rome (410)

Parthian-era bronze statue believed by some scholars to represent General Surena.

01The last stars will burn out in approximately 100 trillion years; after that, only stellar corpses remain for quadrillions more.
02Black hole evaporation via Hawking radiation means a stellar-mass black hole takes 10^67 years to vanish — the longest countdown in physics.
03In heat death, entropy is maximized: no information can be processed, meaning no thought, computation, or memory is physically possible anywhere.

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When Alaric's Visigoths entered Rome in August 410 — the first foreign army in 800 years — Saint Jerome wrote from Bethlehem that the whole world had perished. The city's pagan senators blamed the abandoned gods.