He stops and then changes the subject, before I could answer. He shows me what we came to view, one single rather large star near one of the arms of the galaxy. The star was significantly brighter than most. As we drew closer, it stood out bright against the sea of lesser stars.

     "There can you see it?" he says and points to an inconsistency in the background that looked like a ring of stars around a dark void. As we moved closer, the stars that formed the ring began to dance, twirling every which way around the void like a living crown gracing an invisible god.

     Martin explains that the gravity of a collapsed star of ten thousand solar masses is sufficient to totally disrupt the distribution of energy in the space surrounding it, so that light can no longer be propagated in the normal manner.

     "You can't propagate ripples across a pond that has no water in it," he says with a grin.

     I just nod. The whole thing was like a fairy tale to me that strangely made sense.

     "What appears to us like a black hole," he says, "is in reality one of the brightest objects in the Universe."

     I nod again. He could have told me anything. Who was I to doubt him?

     "Can you prove that a ten-thousand solar mass star is inside there?" I say cautiously. "How do you know that it is there if you can't see it."

     "It can be seen by its effect."

     "The ring of dancing stars is an interesting optical illusion, I grant you that, I say to him."

     He explains that light is propagated at different angles and speeds across areas of different energy density surrounding the black hole.

     "Are you saying that the whole thing acts like a giant distortion lens?" I say to him and raise my finger. "You are putting me on, aren't you? Is this another plasma-electric light show?

     He grins and explains that one could say that the space around it becomes "geometrically curved in some fashion, as space typically is." He grins now even more. "Modern science takes this as proof that there is an immensely massive star inside this black hole that no one can actually see. You are right in suggesting that the effect we see of so-called gravitational lensing, could also be an electromagnetic plasma effect. Why should gravity, the weakest force in the Universe, have the strongest effect? And what about distance, time, and so-called matter that really doesn't exist either except as energy ordered by harmonizing Principle? Should these little things overpower the force of intention? The irony is, we don't even know what causes the force of gravity to have the effect it has, yet we arrogantly say that gravity rules all phenomena. The bottom line is that we are still explores in this Universe, you and I, and may remain that for a long time to come, except that we move in different directions. There are many ways possible to exploring the Universe."



     The whole thing appeared like magic to me. Of course he was right when he said that I hadn't seen anything yet. Still, it made sense in a way what he said. He said that space, emptied of its energy background, can't conduct light. That made sense. Then I thought of something that became of astonishing significance only much later after we had returned to the ship. If no light escapes from the planet inside the black hole, if indeed there is such a thing, then no light can pass into it either. Not only does the brightest type of star in the Universe appear as a black hole to us in this manner, but the entire Universe in which we live must in like manner appear as a black void when seen from the vantage point of this black-hole star. Maybe that was the same in science where it is so easy to construct ones own black hole around one. Maybe that was the reason why the Bohr/Miller effect had remained unknown for so long. In essence it appeared as if a valid concept had indeed slipped out of our Universe.

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