This article decodes the signal. We will explore the cold mathematics of escape velocity, the dark forest of intergalactic voids, and the psychological "hold" required when a species meets its ultimate cage.
We are living in the only era of the universe where intergalactic travel is theoretically possible. In 10 billion years, the expansion will have accelerated so much that the Local Group will look like the entire universe. Future beings will look up and see no other galaxies. They will have no evidence of the Big Bang. They will think the universe is static and lonely. Galactic Limit -Final- -Hold-