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Profpat,

Please accept my condolences for your great loss of energy…I feel like that sometimes, too.

Just a word's worth:

“What, though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

(We have astronomical amounts of matter left around—more than we'll ever need.)

If black holes ate it, will it ever return?