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the deal time can't break and entropy can't repossess, no matter how long it sulks.

means Lasting forever, without beginning or end — or at least seeming to go on indefinitely.

from From Latin aeternus, 'everlasting,' itself a contraction of aeviternus, built on aevum, 'age, lifetime, eternity.' That aevum is a cousin of the same ancient root that gave us 'age' and even 'ever.' It reached English through Old French eternel in the medieval period — already wearing its theological robes, since the word was doing heavy lifting in talk of God and the soul long before it described love letters or traffic jams.

black holes
may outlast every star by googol-scale eons
language root
from Latin aeternus, meaning age-lasting
diamonds lie
they slowly turn to graphite, just unbearably slowly
flame at gas
Turkmenistan crater has burned since 1971
math forever
primes are infinite, proven by Euclid
for instance

eternal city rome — capital of italy, called urbs aeterna by ancient romans for its enduring influence

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