Points In Time Saga #2: The Time Machine - Black Hole
The Time Machine - Black Hole
"Hello?" I asked confused.
All the light and sound vanished. I could not see a thing; if something was happening around me, it must have been in a different point of the light spectrum that I couldn't detect with my eyes.
At least that's what it looked like.
An intense red glow emanated from the machine. It came slowly from the center towards the edge of the rings that were part of the structure.
It looked like a red hot metal placed within mere millimeters from your face, but there was something... missing.
Of course, heat.
I should have melted down by now if any heat that matched that intense glow had been released at me.
I should have melted down by now if any heat that matched that intense glow had been released at me.
"That's where your color psychology fails you" said They in a whisper inside my head. "The laws of physics you're used to no longer apply".
Another ability They has: telepathy. I was not aware of that at this point. I was wondering: Did that include mind control? Does that mean that...?
That train of thought was interrupted when the blackest of shades started... oozing out of the center of the machine.
I had always wondered what Vantablack actually looked like back when I was on Earth; I think that was still too bright for what unraveled before me...
It was black, it was cold, and it was silent. All the literature written by mankind describe darkness that way. Turns out their description was right, it just didn't encompass the full dimension of how much there is nothing in it.
And there was nothing at all. The red glow the machine was slowly being absorbed by the center and replaced with black. It seemed as if the equipment would fall onto itself and crumble under its own weight.
"What is this?" I said.
Or at least, that's what I wanted to anyway.
I couldn't make any sound. I could just move my lips but I couldn't hear if any sound was made.
I saw the air vibrate in front of me for a fraction of a second and those waves made their way into the center of the machine only to disappear and never be seen again.
It took me a while to understand why because I just hadn't been in this situation before. No human had been up to this point as far as I was aware.
The tentacles of the darkness kept spreading into the room, slowly creeping on the wall.
I did not know what to do.
The machine now looked like an eye that was staring at me, full of fury and hatred. Like it was thinking of all the ways it could destroy me and was trying to make up its mind and settle for the option that would inflict as much damage for as long as possible.
It was unnerving, especially because it felt like it was daring me to blink and forfeit my existence to it.
"You shouldn't be afraid. There is much more to learn in the darkness than there is in the light" whispered softly They inside my head.
I felt a slow drag towards the machine. It began as a gentle pull and it quickly progressed into an unescapable force.
"So this is what hypergravity feels like" I thought while trying to stop my feet from dragging across the room.
"This is just 1% of said force. You'll know the actual hypergravity when it's the proper time to do so" was again whispered into my mind.
The red glow disappeared completely.
Now it was all black and I was sucked inside the machine.
I'm being honest here; I don't have any idea how to explain what was inside that darkness.
It was everything and nothing. It was never ending noise and infinite silence. It was scorching heat and numbing cold. It was white and black. It was a light touch and an oppressive force.
It was every single second that ever occurred since the Big Bang and it was like if the first second ever was stretched as far as it could go so it would never change into a new one, thus cancelling time itself.
I could see the light from billions of years ago, light from my own time and light that was too far in the future to even see it in my lifetime.
Light... I completely forgot about that...
How could I describe it with words and absolutely no evidence to prove my claims?
You probably know that you get white when you mix all the colors we know, right?
But do you know what happens when white is subjected to hypergravity?
A completely new color palette that our eyes can't detect and our brains can't process.
If it's any consolation, I just caught glimpses of it. Those colors passed me by in a blink, like hearing a screeam when travelling on a highway in the middle of the night. You can only have an idea that something was there but you can't be certain, can you?
The only thing I can actually describe is the feeling of falling for hours. I had no sense or reference of time in that place but I felt like...
At times it felt like I was travelling without moving. At times it felt like everything was travelling through me. At times it felt like if nothing moved; neither my surroundings nor me.
Where was I?
What is a black hole anyway?
We spent decades making hypothesis, disproving or proving them, some of them evolved to theories; and that was as close as we had to an actual definitive truth.
Bu we always dealt with unproven theories rather than confirmed realities...
What we failed to consider is that in some senses, the universe can be far simpler than we think.
In some cases, it's actually showing us the door. To what? I think the simplest of answers could be: to another possibility.
But being curious by nature, we spent too much time hyper analyzing the door; what was it made of? how much did every atom on it measured? who put it there? why was it there to begin? what was on the other side of it?
We just never thought of crossing it...
I kept falling.
At times it felt like I was spinning out of control because my head threatened to explode but it never did.
I'm glad it didn't because after falling for what felt like 12 hours I saw the faintest of lights at the center of the infinite darkness.
It felt like a way out. An exit.
Was it? Was this all there was to it? Or was it the actual door?
What was on the other side?
I kept falling, not that I could do anything to stop it.
It is a rather odd sensation knowing you're completely stripped of control of what happens to you but at the same time it felt liberating.
Anything could happen now, so whatever would happen if I ever reached the light, I was willing to experience.
I was approaching the light. Now I could see what it was.
A star.
It looked like it was exploding...
It took me a while to understand why because I just hadn't been in this situation before. No human had been up to this point as far as I was aware.
The tentacles of the darkness kept spreading into the room, slowly creeping on the wall.
I did not know what to do.
The machine now looked like an eye that was staring at me, full of fury and hatred. Like it was thinking of all the ways it could destroy me and was trying to make up its mind and settle for the option that would inflict as much damage for as long as possible.
It was unnerving, especially because it felt like it was daring me to blink and forfeit my existence to it.
"You shouldn't be afraid. There is much more to learn in the darkness than there is in the light" whispered softly They inside my head.
I felt a slow drag towards the machine. It began as a gentle pull and it quickly progressed into an unescapable force.
"So this is what hypergravity feels like" I thought while trying to stop my feet from dragging across the room.
"This is just 1% of said force. You'll know the actual hypergravity when it's the proper time to do so" was again whispered into my mind.
The red glow disappeared completely.
Now it was all black and I was sucked inside the machine.
I'm being honest here; I don't have any idea how to explain what was inside that darkness.
It was everything and nothing. It was never ending noise and infinite silence. It was scorching heat and numbing cold. It was white and black. It was a light touch and an oppressive force.
It was every single second that ever occurred since the Big Bang and it was like if the first second ever was stretched as far as it could go so it would never change into a new one, thus cancelling time itself.
I could see the light from billions of years ago, light from my own time and light that was too far in the future to even see it in my lifetime.
Light... I completely forgot about that...
How could I describe it with words and absolutely no evidence to prove my claims?
You probably know that you get white when you mix all the colors we know, right?
But do you know what happens when white is subjected to hypergravity?
A completely new color palette that our eyes can't detect and our brains can't process.
If it's any consolation, I just caught glimpses of it. Those colors passed me by in a blink, like hearing a screeam when travelling on a highway in the middle of the night. You can only have an idea that something was there but you can't be certain, can you?
The only thing I can actually describe is the feeling of falling for hours. I had no sense or reference of time in that place but I felt like...
At times it felt like I was travelling without moving. At times it felt like everything was travelling through me. At times it felt like if nothing moved; neither my surroundings nor me.
Where was I?
What is a black hole anyway?
We spent decades making hypothesis, disproving or proving them, some of them evolved to theories; and that was as close as we had to an actual definitive truth.
Bu we always dealt with unproven theories rather than confirmed realities...
What we failed to consider is that in some senses, the universe can be far simpler than we think.
In some cases, it's actually showing us the door. To what? I think the simplest of answers could be: to another possibility.
But being curious by nature, we spent too much time hyper analyzing the door; what was it made of? how much did every atom on it measured? who put it there? why was it there to begin? what was on the other side of it?
We just never thought of crossing it...
I kept falling.
At times it felt like I was spinning out of control because my head threatened to explode but it never did.
I'm glad it didn't because after falling for what felt like 12 hours I saw the faintest of lights at the center of the infinite darkness.
It felt like a way out. An exit.
Was it? Was this all there was to it? Or was it the actual door?
What was on the other side?
I kept falling, not that I could do anything to stop it.
It is a rather odd sensation knowing you're completely stripped of control of what happens to you but at the same time it felt liberating.
Anything could happen now, so whatever would happen if I ever reached the light, I was willing to experience.
I was approaching the light. Now I could see what it was.
A star.
It looked like it was exploding...
To be continued...
Points In Time Saga index:
Chapter #1: The Time Machine - Ignition
Chapter #3: The Time Machine - Time Dilation
Chapter #4: Realm Of Universes
Chapter #3: The Time Machine - Time Dilation
Chapter #4: Realm Of Universes
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