“The Earth would end at the triple point where . . . these three curves would meet and reach their maximum at exactly the same moment,” he proposes. “The death of the planet, materially exhausted; the tearing apart of the noosphere, divided over what form its unity should take, and simultaneously, giving the event its whole significance and value, the freeing of that percentage of the universe which has succeeded in laboriously synthesizing itself across time, space and evil to the very end.”