Picture this: I’m out camping in the Rockies a few summers back, far from city lights, staring up at a sky exploding with stars. It hit me then—how everything we know, from those distant galaxies to the campfire crackling nearby, has an expiration date. Not just us mortals, but the whole cosmic show. Lately, scientists have been buzzing about new findings that suggest this grand finale might sneak up sooner than we’d bargained for. It’s not tomorrow or even in a million years, but these revelations make you pause and appreciate the now. Traditional Views on Cosmic Doom For decades,…