Perhaps the most grave awakening in modernity is that to the universe’s mortality. Like humans and all life, it shall also succumb to a dark death, in a long time but a finite time. The 19th and 20th centuries saw an explosion of theories that painted the universe as a trillion year symphony, and we finally understood our place in it. But ultimately, a trillion years is still shorter than pre-modernity’s Edenic sense of indefiniteness. A Second Coming with no preset date and an unending afterlife in Heaven. Oh how the ignorant were blissful. Modernity has given humanity the courage to lift its head towards the future, but by looking up we saw the existential dread of an approaching void. Curiosity has killed the cat. We invented the microscope but in turn uncovered the universe’s terminal cancer diagnosis that is the second law of thermodynamics. God is dead.