LIFE IN THE SUPRA-WORLD 133 



ourselves in the centre, would dwindle to a body of 

 the 21st magnitude, and the supra-star itself, seen 

 from the next supra-star, would rank as a body of 

 the 75th magnitude. That being the magnitude of 

 the supra-star nearest our own, it is small wonder 

 we do not see it. A supra-being would not, of course, 

 see the supra-stars by our light, but by " supra-light," 

 which may be powerful enough to reveal the existence 

 of supra-stars to suitably-constructed sense organs. 



Could we, by some superhuman power, condense 

 our galactic system and seal it up in a tin can, we 

 should, on looking round us, see nothing but utter 

 darkness (barring the rare chance of some other 

 galaxy being near). We should see nothing but a 

 black void, though surrounded by 100,000 million 

 shining galaxies constituting a supra-star, and by 

 a trillion supra-stars constituting a body of the 

 next higher order. The light to which, through 

 countless ages, our eyes have learnt to respond, 

 would utterly forsake us, and unless we were 

 endowed with new retinas capable of responding 

 to supra-light of wave-length 10 18 cm., we should 

 be practically blind. Such retinas would be im- 

 possible in our present bodies, with their rapid 

 changes and short life-period. A single light-pulse 

 would take a whole year to pass. We should, in 

 fact, require supra-bodies, bodies in which the vital 

 changes take place nearly a quadrillion times 

 more slowly than they do in ours. 



