Staring at the heavens, we see the stars in random patterns. To some of these groupings or arrangements, we have assigned constellation names. These constellations are visible to the human eye, when conditions are right. Using a strong telescope, the number of stars that we can observe is greatly amplified. Indeed, using the most powerful telescope, it’s likely that the heavens would absorb any pattern we might then attempt to establish. If a telescope could be devised to show us the outer walls of a finite Universe, intervening would be a mass of stars that would probably appear as a solid wall of light, with no patterns discernible, other than that pattern formed on its fabric by black holes. And if the Universe is infinite in its reach, to where do these black holes extend? Is total blackness the infinite pattern of the fathomless Universe?

RickMack (jotoma@bellsouth.net)
~WRITERS' CORNER~