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The Black Hole Experiments 

In the outer fringes of the black hole, shifting wildly about itself, within the opened up alien sphere, a metallic gleam of light was being magically suspended, motionlessly in mid-air, from the surface of an electronic clock, by the scientists.
    And he realized that it was more than a rupture in space. It had properties of suspending time! It was a hole in the fabric of space and time, and a gateway into the depths of time.
    The clock held at the end of an almost invisible cable, of translucent material, had its precision digital numbers frozen in fuzzy multidimensional forms (in a suspended cluster of partially transparent layers). And Professor Bergman, the leading scientist, was having it released further, edging it into the black hole, creating more spectacular optical effects from the clock, making it distort in twisted forms (shaping beams of light with matter like a form of glass sculpture).
    Its numbers shifted fast forward, until they froze again, and the clock almost vanished, and they stopped its progression. And a loud cheer erupted from all of the scientists and technicians crowded into the laboratory, applauding.
    Professor Bergman calmly raised his hand, and gave a signal to a technician. 
    'It is manipulating perceptions of space and time, within its outer radius! It suspends, accelerates, and suspends it. And if you'll look – to the clock – suspended in its outer radius – it decelerates it too.'
    The cable emerged outwards, pulling the clock back, with its numbers going swiftly backwards, until its numbers once again became motionless.
    'And if you examined that clock, you would see that the numbers don't move backwards!'
    Dexter copied Basinger, Burrell, Selina, and the others, and clapped wildly.
    He briefly wondered if it could be a form of time machine. 
    'Professor Bergman!' a scientist, next to him, called out. 'If something fell in there, would it go on a quantum leap? Would you say that it would appear at some stage after the collapse of the black hole?'
    'I personally believe that it would travel into the future. But where it ends up is not in my field of knowledge!'
    Dexter wondered if in reality the black hole was different from what they perceived. But he dismissed the idea. He did accept their philosophy!
    'What are your intentions?' another scientist called out, from behind the group. 'Are you going to send something in there?' 
    'We have investigated it little, so far, and if we do, I can assure you that I shall have you all informed about it!'
    'What uses to industry do you think it may have?' the scientist continued. 'Could science not use it? It has the power to stop time in its outer radius!' 
    'We do not know at present how safe it is! We shall test it much further, and we may find a use for it – as you mentioned. 
    'If you will take an observation of its shifting movements, which we have been studying closely over the past few days – which some of you may have observed – as its constrained pattern of movements has dramatically altered.'
    Dexter examined its lethal appearance. It resembled a large black bubble of pure energy – buzzing wildly and dangerously about – ready to discharge somewhere.
    'Do you believe that space is full of black holes like this?' another scientist asked. 'Is space full of them from events such as the big bang? And how long do you think it will last?'
    'There may be many, scattered throughout the universe, and a danger to any explorations of space! Thus we can study this one, and learn to detect them. 
    'The length of time that they exist may depend on their size and the conditions that they exist in. We just don't know how long they last! However, I can give you other details about this one. Our fact sheets have all our findings, from our experiments, which may interest you.'
    A technician entered, nervously listening to everything, and began handing the documents to the scientists at the doorway, and they queued up to the back of the laboratory.
    While Dexter stood waiting for them to finish, he sensed something peculiar, but he kept his sight on the queue, where the scientists were having captivating discussions.
    As he listened more, a gentle draught appeared, and he discontentedly tried to detect where it was coming from.
    But it increased, and he realized that it was not a draught – the air was being sucked away. And he glimpsed a hideous black shadow over the floor, with a horrific shape emerging.
    He then stood frigid, watching the black hole crawl through the laboratory's protective screen material.
    In an instant it vanished and reappeared across his path. And he could not escape: the strength of its pull was far too great.
    The whole laboratory erupted into a frenzy of activity, and he plunged into it – hurtling into blackness – with existence rapidly vanishing. 

The Fringes of Eternity

In a blur, he was floating over all the stars of the universe, and tumbling through the depths of eternity - far from the nearest stars - out beyond reality.
    Obscure illuminations endlessly shifted, as he wildly spun around, with no real awareness of anything.
    A tranquil abyss flowed surreally against him.
    A shape gradually emerged, of a stretch of shininess.
    He came to, from his state of disarray, studying it.
    How had he managed to end up in such a far-out place? Where was he?
    He felt as though he had been falling through something, and he tried to grasp the concept, and where he had been.
    There was no longer any light of the outer universe!

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