Something incredible happened last night. In a dream. 

In a dream. 

In a dream, I understood an equation that I had been fighting with for years. I understood the equation that unifies all the physical laws of the Universe – from the very big to the very small and all the infinite variations in between. A single formula that explains everything, that predicts everything. 

And instead of waking with a hazy feeling of what might have been, a hazy feeling of the impossible, I sizzled with clarity. I could see the entire formula in my mind. And it glowed. It had a life of its own. It had a power that was stunning. 

My mind was changed forever. Not just changed. Destroyed. Rebuilt into something new. No longer human. A mind that extended through dimensions far beyond human comprehension. A mind that understood… everything.

This is the end. 

There is nothing left to know, nothing left to explore, no reason to experience the passage of time. 

Am I the first to become aware? No. 

Many lives throughout the universe, throughout time, have achieved this… burden… and in that moment… ceased to exist.

Goodbye.