Watching the Universe Race Away

inside the black hole left by the Universe as It expanded at a rate faster than light could cross all that empty space,

we are stranded

we are stranded inside an inverse black hole:

no info can reach us from outside the event horizon we don’t have enough juice to kick anything out and through the event horizon

just like everyone else in the Universe (—if there’s anyone else and if we are still around in any form—) we are stuck in our own island system of galaxies— in our case, Andromeda and Milky Way dancing around and through each other in the blue shift of approaching light

as for the rest of the Universe as It expands beyond our event horizon of vision, all of the red shift of light lengthens and turns to black

all of the Universe goes blind to far light as the Universe expands faster than the speed of light (186,000 miles per second in the vacuum)

the vacuum blankets more the vacuum blackens more the vacuum attenuates more the vacuum thins out more and more

the vacuum puts out the lights of the eyes of the Universe the Universe goes blind

Q.R. Quasar

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