The end

The speed of light is a misnomer. Light travels at the quickest pace it can muster. Lets call this the Universal Speed Constant, USC. Light travels at USC.

For a while people thought that bound particles could send information across the universe at an instant. The way they work is by spinning a particle in one direction and then reversing it. Well, in some rare cases, if you split a particle in half the two halves will continue switching directions of rotation even when separated across the Earth or indeed space.

That sounds pretty cool, but there is an issue. I've heard the switch still takes place over a period of time to suggest that the speed of light or USC. Nothing in the universe may exist, including information, at a speed any faster than the USC. This is the speed of change in the universe. The dominoes that make up the universe may not fall any faster than the USC.

There is a theory of an expanding universe. This theory was come upon by a man named Doppler. He noticed a shift in light waves to the red as they came in over huge distances across the known universe. This led him to imagine that the suns far off were traveling even farther away. The change was constant the farther something was away from Earth, the more pronounced the shift This meant, to Doppler and his followers to think that the distance between the suns was increasing. The rate of increase was increasing.

The idea of distance, also known as space and time as constants is now questioned. There are other explanations to the shift of light to the red in Doppler's calculations.

Light may have a half life. Light may be affected by gravity in such a way as to cause the red shift. Or, perhaps, time is not constant. If time is slowing down and light that was created long ago at a faster speed, had to slow down in order to travel now at the lesser USC the light would appear to have the same shift that Doppler saw in those early photographs. And the rate at which it is slowing down is increasing.

At some point the universe will grind to a halt. I imagine it looking like a black hole absorbing the entire universe in a gulp or a slow slurping inhale. Perhaps all the black holes we know of are all leading back to the big bang and release their energy and matter at the start of our universe. The ultimate recursive recycling.