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upon one another and bring disaster.



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Disaster not only to themselves but possibly to the entire
galaxy which they inhabit, for the gravitational force created by
the implosion would be so vast as to literally seal in light. Not
only light but sound and properties of all the stars in that great
tube of force ... so that the galaxy itself would be sucked into
the funnel of gravitation created by the collapse and be
absorbed into the flickering and desperate heart of the
extinguished star.
It is possible to make several extrapolations from the fact of
the neutron stars—and of the neutron stars themselves we have
no doubt; many nova and supernova are now known to have
been created by exactly this effect, not ex- but im- plosion—and
some of them are these:
(a) The gravitational forces created, like great spokes wheeling
out from the star, would drag in all parts of the galaxy within

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their compass; and because of the force of that gravitation, the
galaxy would be invisible ... these forces would, as has been
said, literally contain light.
(b) The neutron star, functioning like a cosmic vacuum
cleaner, might literally destroy the universe. Indeed, the
universe may be in the slow process at this moment of being
destroyed as hundreds of millions of its suns and planets are
being inexorably drawn toward these great vortexes. The
process would be slow, of course, but it is seemingly inexorable.
One neutron star, theoretically, could absorb the universe. There
are many more than one.
(c) The universe may have, obversely, been created by such
an implosion, throwing out enormous cosmic filaments that, in a
flickering instant of time which is as eons to us but an instant to



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