End of the Universe!

Decided to write on this topic after watching the Star Trek Episode: The Lonely Among Us.
The episode plot is relatively simple; A New Engineer and his Assistant arrive on the Star ship Enterprise and tweak its engine. A mistake causes the Ship to break the warp barrier and they go to the end of universe. How they get back is the rest of the plot.

Anyway, by all means the End of the Universe is a fascinating idea. Scientifically there are many theories suggesting how the universe may end--Big Freeze, Heat Death, Big Crunch, Big bounce are some of those.

Rather than the scientific theories, i was intrigued by the depiction of the End of the Universe.

In the star trek episode, the end of the universe is described as a place where thought becomes reality. Whatever your thoughts are, they realize immediately.

In The Restaurant at the end of the Universe, Douglas Adams describes the End of the Universe as Where all time stops, and the big bang and big crunch are happening all the time. The fireworks of the Big Bang are part of the attraction of the Restaurant there.

Another depiction i have came across is in a game i played. Its called Chrono Trigger in which End of Time, rather than End of Universe is depicted. But i guess both are interchangeable.

I remember reading two short stories, one by Arthur C Clarke. Its called The Nine Billion Names of God. Another is by Isaac Asimov called The Last Question.

I could describe it here, but i would be spoiling your experience. Since they are short stories they won't take more than 5 minutes to read. But the impact of the stories hits you hard. I seriously recommend going through both the stories. These are truly masterpieces.
The Nine Billion Names of God
The Last Question

What Came first the Chicken or the Egg?
The Circle has neither a beginning nor an End.