We come spinning out of nothingness,
Scattering stars like dust.
Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness:
This is within your power.
Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
There is a field.
I'll meet you there . . .—Rumi,
a thousand years ago in Lebanon
If the Eternal Return is not allowed by modern physics,
and if the Heat Death can also be avoided,
then eternal progress is possible.—Prof. Frank Tipler,
PHYSICS OF IMMORTALITY, 1993