Reality Discontinued

By Jem Morgenstern

With all that was done to prevent it, the fall of the universe was still inevitable. Existence was conquered by a force with no form - a nothing from beyond matter. By the time it was discovered, it was too late. It was understandably difficult to comprehend or analyze and understandably impossible to defeat. By the time the universe ceased to exist, our understanding of the nothingness was just that. That it didn’t exist, but that it was somehow bending reality and invisibly sucking the physical form and the entire concept of the universe out of reality. With such little understanding of the force that was ending us, we didn’t have any chance of survival. Our efforts were mostly trying to exist harder. Besides that, a few people built domes from pure matter, which was basically the complete opposite of complete non-existence, so those people were almost certain that their domes would completely reflect the nothingness. We didn’t understand pure matter at the time; it was discovered only a short time before the nothingness warped us outside of reality. All that we understood of it was that it was essential complete concentrated existence in material form. Given our understanding of it, I do understand why people would had thought that it could have potentially saved them from non-existence. Though I think they overlooked the fact that they themselves weren’t pure matter and that the nothingness wasn’t flooding inwards, so they couldn’t have possibly evaded its reach. The nothingness, really, was everywhere already. It was there. It was in them. My theory is that all things were some proportionally adequate combination of nothing and something that allowed them to be. Having some nothing in things is required for some reason that I have not yet thought of. This does conflict with the existence of pure matter, I realize, but I do have an explanation for that. Nothingness appearing precisely after we created pure matter is not a coincidence, I believe. I firmly hold the belief that creating pure matter threw reality out of balance. I think the universe only has so much allotted space for existence. As soon as we began manufacturing concentrated existence, the universe had to begin extracting existence from previously existing things to compensate. We did produce an incredibly selfish quantity of pure matter, so I wouldn’t be whatsoever surprised if that amount would have required the universe to completely remove everything else in existence to allow our stockpiles of pure matter to continue in reality. If that’s not the case, I’m also willing to believe that our expedited production of pure matter crashed the universe’s system - we were creating so much pure matter so quickly that the universe broke and it was stuck with its (metaphorical) finger on the the delete button. Either way, I would like to place the blame on humanity. Even more, I would like to place the blame on myself because I really do enjoy feeling sorry. I’m a bit of a sadomasochist and the extermination of the universe is the biggest punch in the face I could land on myself. You see, I’m the one who discovered pure matter and I’m the one who monopolized on the industry, completely blowing its production out of the water. Sure, pure matter is a wonderful construction material - it basically does whatever it’s meant to do and there’s a zero percent chance of it failing, but there’s no reason to have absolutely everything made from it. I did enjoy having all the money, when the concept of money still meant anything, but I do miss physicality and knowing what that actually means.