1. Platonic solids (tetrahedra, cubes, octahedra, dodecahedra, or icosahedra) ranging between 5cm and 30cm in width. Preference for smoothness.
2. Dark green Wellington boots. Preferences unknown.
3. [REDACTED]
4. Turtles resembling Clemmys guttata. Preference for specific spot patterns, weight between 100g-130g.
5. Seeds of unclassified organism. SCP-3201-5 provided examples of said seeds, which were transported to Site-103, and cultivated in a high-moisture, carbon-dioxide-rich environment. Seeds germinated into a vine-like plant containing pockets of methanous hydrogen gas. After eighteen days, the plant appeared to detach itself, developed into a free-standing floating structure in the center of the greenhouse, and continually dispersed seeds onto the ground before incinerating itself two days later.
6. Denominations of currency bearing the number '5'. Preference towards warmer colours. (?)
7. WWII-era foxhole crystal radio receivers. Preference towards functional receivers.
8. Unknown object class. Described as spherical in shape, metallic in composition, covered in elongated spindles, and approximately two metres in diameter - apparently extant in nearby universes. SCP-3201-8 provided researchers with an example of the object, which appears to be neutrally buoyant, and emits electromagnetic radiation in structured pulses at 540 Hz. Air temperatures within 1.5km of the object decreased by 8 degrees Celsius over the course of three hours over the duration of testing. Function unknown, researchers were requested by SCP-3201-8 to manufacture more. Request was denied.

Translated by ██ ██

Observations and testimony collected from May 21 Guangzhou factory incident

JULY 15, 1983

KEY INFORMATION

[Extraneous content redacted]

Head Researcher K██████:
In that case, what is the earliest cosmological event you remember having observed?

SCP-3201-4:
| «STAR-PLURAL» | «MULTITUDE-GROUP» | «loc. WITHIN» | «GEOMETRIC-DESCRIPTION-OF-A-SPHERE» | «SHAPE-TRANSFORMATION» | «GEOMETRIC-DESCRIPTION-OF-A-SPIRAL» | Formation of our galaxy?

Head Researcher K██████:
Could you describe to me your concept of an Earth year?

SCP-3201-4:
| «GEOMETRIC-DESCRIPTION-OF-THE-EARTH» | «loc. ON-SURFACE-OF» | «mov. CIRCULAR» | «loc. RELATIVE-RETURN-TO-POSITION» | «dir. W°11.1022981020516790039813…» | [COORDINATES REDACTED FOR BREVITY] | «STAR-SINGULAR» |

Head Researcher K██████:
How many years have you existed for?

SCP-3201-4:
| «CONFUSION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
Was there a point in time at which you did not exist?

SCP-3201-4:
| «CONFUSION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
Were you created?

SCP-3201-4:
| «CONFUSION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
Have you seen any other civilizations apart from ours?

SCP-3201-4:
| «AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
How many apart from ours have you have observed?

SCP-3201-4:
| «3» |

Head Researcher K██████:
But there are more?

SCP-3201-4:
| «AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
And you haven't observed them directly?

SCP-3201-4:
| «AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
Why?

SCP-3201-4:
| «DISINTEREST» | «ABSENCE-OF» | «GEOMETRIC-DESCRIPTION-OF-TURTLE-PLURAL» |

Head Researcher K██████:
Are these civilizations extant?

SCP-3201-4:
| «NEGATION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
How many years ago did the last civilization cease to exist?

SCP-3201-4:
| «5,317,918,106» |

Head Researcher K██████:
Was this civilization in our galaxy?

SCP-3201-4:
| «NEGATION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
Was this civilization in the Local Group?

SCP-3201-4:
| «NEGATION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
I see. Why are the Archivists here?

SCP-3201-4:
| «BEACON» | «INVESTIGATION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
What are your purposes here?

SCP-3201-4:
| «OBJECTS-WITH-LOW-ENTROPY» | «PURPOSE / DUTY» | «UNIVERSE-MUSEUM» | «ARCHIVE» | «PRESERVATION-FROM» | «UNIVERSAL-THERMODYNAMIC-EQUILIBRIUM» |

Head Researcher K██████:
By universal thermodynamic equilibrium … you mean … the heat death of our universe?

SCP-3201-4:
| «AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION» |

Head Researcher K██████:
That won't happen for trillions of trillions of years.

SCP-3201-4:
| «AFFIRMATION-OF-ACCURATE-INFORMATION» |

SCP-3201-4 leaves

END OF TRANSCRIPT

The idea of the heat-death fascinated and frightened cultures and civilizations for millennia, before it was given a basis in scientific fact.

In the twenty-thousand-year-old mythology of the Oplachuyayan tribe of SCP-███, was the balanced triality of the three primal gods. The Oplachuyayans believed that since their progeny, Chaos and Order had fought battle upon battle with one another, and although immortal, would grow steadily weaker as time passed. In Oplachuyayan storytelling, it was said that in 10¹⁰⁰ years, Chaos and Order would have their last battle, after which their third brother, Silence, would come to rule over the universe.

In 12QNum, a manuscript fragment attributed to [REDACTED], an anomalous Judaist sect dated to the 2nd century CE, are the words: " … dreamed of one in one hundred stars falling, and those stars remained, and none rose thereafter. And he waited for ten years, and one hundred years, until all the stars that had remained had fallen, and there was nothing. And nothing remained."

The observation that turned the heat death from story to certainty, was Edward Hubble's 1929 discovery that every galaxy in the universe appeared to be receding from our own. From this, he concluded that the universe was expanding, rather than static as Einstein had assumed.

The heat death as a concept in cosmology refers to another possible fate of the universe, distinct from the Big Crunch, the Big Rip, the Big Split, and the Big Merge, very far into the future.

According to our current scientific knowledge, the gas required for normal star formation will no longer be available in 100 trillion years. This will result in a universe dominated by white dwarf stars, growing fewer and fewer as each star slowly runs out of available fuel.

As cold ex-stellar bodies merge together and fall into enormous black hole singularities over trillions of trillions of years, eventually, the universe will be completely devoid of light. Any life that comes into being in this time will never know stars – the sky will be empty.

But not even these black holes would last forever – our current understanding of Hawking radiation indicates that all black holes, even those with masses exceeding galaxies, slowly leak subatomic particles into space. Over a period of 10¹⁰⁰ years, every single last black hole will have vanished. The universe by this point will be rapidly expanding – so empty, dark, and cold, that the distance between one photon and its closest neighbour, will exceed the current distance between the Earth, and the edge of the observable universe.

At this point, the universe will be in its highest possible entropy state, and for all intents and purposes, it will have reached its final fate, its final end.

Entropy increased as expected.

Total universal thermodynamic equilibrium was attained at 2.829383810393928102 x 10¹⁰⁴ years after creation, in contrast to the predicted date of 1.0102920192899092 x 10¹⁰⁰ YAC, due to extended entropy-reducer activity.

Entropy-reducer activity ceased following significant proton-decay.

A group of 3,461,501,019 entropy-reducers re-created a Beacon.

Archivists were sent to investigate. Stranded Technicians were not found within 86,700 light-years of Beacon location, and search was concluded negative.

Contact with entropy-reducers was retained until entropy-reducers self-terminated for unknown reasons 1.16 x 10² years after initial Beacon creation.

6,908,017,318,855,191,004,119,248,194,872,949 Exhibits were preserved, including the preceding electronic object.

See Addendum 11/A103931 for further information.