THE FINAL DAY
At last the day was going to come. It was the day that I was waiting for but might not be waited for by most others. It was my dream to witness that incident, a dream that I did not think would come true. The earth was going to end. But it was not like what we have seen in movies, like “2012” or “Interstellar”. It was estimated that in the year 5003, may be on June or July, the star nearest to the sun, i.e., ‘Proxima Centuari’s’ gravity would increase to such extent that it would collapse within itself, resulting in the formation of a space-time singularity. As a result, atleast, the whole solar system would be pulled into the singularity. That day was April 10, and I had to wait just a few more days…………..
Our days on earth was going to end and we might be too. And most of us knew that. I was a 35 years old Bengali astrophysicist. I worked at a private research center. I had a small family consisting of my wife, my 4 years old daughter and me. The news of the calamity spread like a wildfire. Religious places were filled with people, and prayers of mourning could be heard from those places. There were gatherings at many places where people could be seen mourning, while some were with posters displaying “REPENT. THE JUDJEMENT DAY IS NEAR”. We had seen the movie “2012”, where government built arks to protect the people from the waves, or in the film “INTERSTELLAR” where the humans were seen to reside in a space station, in the outer space. But this time it was unlike any of those. The government could do nothing to save the human race. Even we scientists were left with no choice but to sit and then fall into a mysterious thing.
The singularity or the black hole has always been a mystery for us. No one had seen a black hole before but then. There were no pictures of it but just a black spot among many stars. Nothing escapes that black monster, not even light. No waves sent towards it for collecting information, ever came back. So we had nothing but a hypothesis and few scraps of paperwork on that dark monster.
Being an astrophysicist, it was an excitement for me to see that unsolved mystery. But to the contrary, I was also a little disappointed upon thinking the fate of those thousands of people. We were not prepared for such a calamity. When I was in class 10, from then it had been my dream to witness such an incident.
For some years the sun’s brightness was seen decreasing, when the NASA scientists detected some gravitational anomalies near the sun. During that time it was theorized that the earth was going to end. For many years, many scientists have proposed various ideas about the black hole. Most had said that inside a black hole time ceases to continue, that if someone enters it, then that person would be stretched to 2-dimensions under the extreme pull of gravity. Many had even said that it might be an ‘Einstein-Rosen’s Bridge’ or ‘Wormhole’, a shortcut through space-time. But none of these ideas have any observational evidence, until that day.
JUNE 26, 5003: Finally the ‘Judgment Day’ came. For the last few days the sun was seen turning dimmer, there were high velocity winds. That day morning was no different than the last few days. The whole human race were waiting for their ultimate fate. Our wait came to an end when a shockwave shook the earth. Slowly and gradually we experienced a pull. Winds blew in from every side, all the signals were jammed and all the objects of the earth tilted uniformly to one end. But to my surprise the earth showed no signs of mass destruction. The oxygen and all the natural elements were available to us. We were still living, standing straight, looking at the sun, yet the earth moved towards the black hole at gradually increasing speed. By evening we were able to see the giant. It was a black spot with layers of light wrapping it up. The gravitational pull increased to a great extent but still the earth was in single piece. I assumed that the gravitational pull on each and every particle was somehow balanced, which kept the earth as a single ball of mud and water. With an accelerating speed we were pulled towards the black spot, not in a straight path but more of a curved one. I started to sweat. I was on the roof holding my wife and my daughter. When we came almost near to it, I said to my wife and daughter, “I love u both. Goodbye”. By that time I saw the sun had moved slightly towards the south. I was looking nowhere but at that big black giant. Our Sun had moved farther from us, and a shivering cold prevailed. The earth had come very close to the black sphere and I could see myself moving towards it, or rather inside it. I closed my eyes. I felt a great pull but I held my family tightly. There were great noises- the shimmering of leaves, the barking of dogs and above all, of mourning. Gradually, I felt the force of attraction slowly losing its strength. I started feeling warmer. I was still breathing. My eyes were still closed. I still felt my wife and daughter within my arms. At an instance I sensed that the intense pull had ceased. I gained courage and slowly opened my eyes. To my astonishment, none of the things were misplaced, even the sun was on west, glowing orange-red. It was evening. What the fuck?!!!
All the communication systems were restored within a few days, and it took us, the scientists, a few months to figure out, not completely but atleast partially, of actually what happened. It was noticed that there were changes in the constellations, and even the planets and galaxies we had known before. It was assumed that by some reason the black hole turned to a wormhole, OR might be that the black hole is itself a wormhole, and it has thrown us to this new galaxy. There were many more controversies, and scientists all over the world are still trying to solve the greater mystery……………………….
May be there is no ‘Judgment Day’, maybe there is no end to the earth. If there is any ‘Supreme Creator’, maybe he just wants to preserve his greatest creation…………………….I don’t know………………………..
