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Description: In Part One we visited the universe one
hundred and ten trillion years after the Big Bang. Our hero Omega and his
people escaped the last known dying red sun by becoming living spirits. Now
they must embark on a remarkable journey... (By popular request)!
Omega and his associates flew faster than light. Up
ahead there appeared a white pin-prick.
“A star!” exclaimed Omega.
“Not a star,” corrected Father, “It’s another
universe!”
That tiny white gem grew into a globe, until it
filled most of the “sky”.
Father: “Omega, you have a choice now. Most of our
people are going on to that universe. To a new life. But some of us are going
further first. We are going to take full advantage of this spirit form, and
travel out as far as we can. We are going to try to discover the truth about
Existence.”
Omega: “But how will you find your way back, Dad?”
Father: “We have established an unbreakable link
with our people. When we have completed our quest we will follow that thread
and return home. Are you up for it?”
Omega: “Of course. You only get a chance like this
the once.”
Father: “Good. Let’s go.”
All the goodbyes were made and the two parties went
their separate ways. For Omega, his odyssey began.
This time, they seemed to fly away even faster!
Another “star” appeared. Then another, and another, until the whole “sky” was
filled with a myriad of them.
Father: “Yes, son, you guessed: these are not stars
but universes. We are somewhere in the middle of a Multiverse. And we are
heading out!”
At some point Omega became aware that there was a
“boundary” to the multiverse. That the multiverse was some vast globe of
universes! Soon they were leaving that globe. Before long they were looking
back at that circle his father called “The Multiverse”.
Then Omega became aware of another globe in the
distance. As they moved away, this second globe looked much larger than the
first. Like a sun and earth. But then other small spheres appeared: until there
were eight of them orbiting that “sun”. Omega’s multiverse was the third of
those eight from the “star”.
Father: “It’s an Oxygen atom, son!”
Omega: “What?”
Father: “That sun thing is the nucleus and its, er,
planets are electrons. Two in the inner shell and six in the outer. Classic
Oxygen.”
Omega: “Wow!”
They kept going. Soon they encountered more oxygen
atoms as they sped away from their own “atom”. They also encountered countless
Hydrogen “atoms”.
Father: “Water! We are in water! Lots of impurities
though.”
Their pace seemed to multiply. Nevertheless it took
ages. Eventually, however, they left what turned out to be a stream of water.
Falling to some unknown ground. Slowly but surely, though, a “figure”
materialised above them.
The realisation hit them all at once. Frozen in
“time” before them was, a little lad having a pee behind some bushes! And both their
own old and “new” universes were somewhere within that stream of urine.
Father: “I think it’s time for us to return home,
son.”
Paul
Butters
©
PB 19\10\2011.
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