PROOF OF EXISTENCE OF A SUPRA-WORLD I I 5 



cannot be the only system of luminous stars in 

 the infinite universe ever evolved. That would 

 distinguish our present epoch above any other. 

 Special cases must oscillate about the average, 

 both in space and time. There is no unique 

 epoch in the universe. If there were, the whole 

 system would be unstable, and subject to sudden 

 and overwhelming changes. The constancy of the 

 laws governing the infra - world through vast 

 stretches of atomic time is a lesson for us, teach- 

 ing to look for no catastrophes or specially-favoured 

 times in our own world. 



This consideration is fatal to the "single-world" 

 theory. The galactic system is unstable. It can- 

 not last. It must change into something entirely 

 different perhaps, according to some, into a single 

 sun 1000 times as large as our sun, radiating off its 

 heat into empty space, and hanging, at the end of a 

 billion years, alone in a vast void, itself a gigantic 

 kind of moon, scarred and crumbling, the last in- 

 habitant, rayless and forlorn, of a dark and empty 

 nothingness. 



If this can happen, why should it happen just 

 then? Why did it not happen a billion years 

 ago ? Because it was not then created ? And why 

 not? Why should this vast universe, with its 

 millionfold life, be crowded into one short moment 

 a moment of infinitesimal duration for any one 

 <1 with time-perception on the stellar scale? 



