The plane is built. The plan is unfolding and will be carried out, whether in weeks, months or perhaps even a year, I do not know. There is nothing that we can do to stop it. My attempts to contact U.S. intelligence and law enforcement have been unsurprisingly futile. Predictably, they are not interested in dreams, prescient or otherwise, or messages from God, unless He cares to call them collect. Despite the expiration of the Patriot Act, all of my communications are now monitored—cell, online, landline, and there may be men in black hanging around the neighborhood, though I have not seen them and frankly suspect messages from God do not much interest them, either.

I guess I should consider myself lucky. I suppose there are simply too many cranks and outright nut jobs loose for the government to give much thought to dreamers with delusions of grandeur. At least I’ll have my freedom until Armageddon comes to pass.

If there is a silver lining to all of this it is that I know what neither mercenary nor traditional scientists know--a small grace perhaps, but a great source of comfort to me. I know precisely how our universe began and how it will end. I know what came before the Big Bang that gave it birth and what will come after the Colossal Crunch that will be its eventual end as entropy sets in and the weak gravitational force begins to contract the universe once it reaches the apogee of its expansion and matter begins to coalesce into larger and larger black holes.

I also know that there is not one universe, but many, an infinite number in fact, in infinite variety of sizes, all coexisting within the fabric of space time. The math is beyond my ability to comprehend, but the intuitive leap was clear in my divinely-inspired dream.

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The current model for black holes holds that they will absorb any matter that crosses their event horizon and that they have, in essence, an infinite capacity to absorb matter in their nearly unimaginably compressed centers. So powerful is their attraction that light cannot escape them, and it is posited that crossing their event horizon will distort or perhaps stop time. With all due deference to physicists who can do the math, they are wrong. I have it on the best authority.

Black holes can ingest incredible amounts of mass and energy and extend the reach of their event horizons—the pull of their gravitational force—outwards as they grow. The mass of a collapsed star may be compressed to a circumference of a few kilometers. Compress it further still, as when a truly massive star is involved, and at some point it becomes a black hole. In extreme cases, we know there to be massive black holes in the center of spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, slowly, inexorably sucking in stars, planets, and everything else into the cosmic drains that are their vortices, causing the spiral form of these galaxies just like water spiraling down a terrestrial drain.

But there is a limit to the amount of mass and energy that can be contained in any black hole. Exceed that limit, and the fabric of space time that is bent further and further under the stress bursts just like an over-stressed aneurism under the pressure of an arterial wall overcome by too much blood pumped under too much pressure, or a balloon overfilled beyond its capacity.

Matter cannot be compressed ad infinitum, nor can the mass and energy captured from thousands of stars and their accompanying solar systems be forever retained at the center of the singularity or converted to and expelled as radiation. Eventually, every singularity reaches critical mass and bursts outward expelling in a few nanoseconds its retained mass and energy through the torn fabric of space time, giving birth to a new universe in a flash of fury, an unfathomable release of energy and mass, a new big (and sometimes little) bang. The energy is released not in our universe, but into a new one, disgorging the contents of the singularity outward to expand in accordance with the total compressed matter and energy in its universe of origin. The rift in space time is then sealed and a new universe joins the omniverse that contains all of the individual universes in the multiverse.

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