Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
T.S. Elliot
The Four Quartets
I suppose paper magazine subscriptions are becoming an old-fashioned indulgence. We can get almost anything on our "device" now, but it isn't quite the same. And I probably wouldn't remember to read the New Yorker and National Geographic if they weren't laying around on the coffee table making me feel guilty.
Professional home organizers find it humorous that many people "collect" National Geographic magazines, for no good reason. Why is that? I'm not a paper hoarder, but we have a shelf on full display in the basement. Funny.
The cover story in the March National Geographic is "The Truth About Black Holes." Wonderful photographs and five pages of National Geographic writing at its very best. Did you know, black holes are utterly common in the universe? There are trillions of them at the center of galaxies, including our own Milky Way.
As a neutron star becomes a black hole, a sugar cube size fragment would weigh a billion tons on Earth. Atoms are shattered into minute particles scientists don't even have names for. And so on, tinier and denser, until? Black holes, with their incredible gravitational pull, are basically time machines.
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