This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.

Could that have been what happened to the human race - a willing perversity that set at naught all human values which had been so hardly won and structured in the light of reason for a span of more than a million years?

If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.