Hugo Gernsback

“ Yet to us in our apparently slow time equivalent, the explosion may go on for several more billion billion years. A daring idea, and indeed stranger than the most bizarre thoughts of any science fiction Writer. ”

“ Reckoned in the scale of human measurements, our universe may have an age not much greater than a few billion billion years. Although this is staggering to oyr time conception, it may be only a fraction of a second in some other time equivalent, where events are reckoned on a different and vastly larger scale of time values. In the meantime, the explosion of our own universe is going on at a terrific rate and in a fraction of a second—in some other super-time equivalent—the explosion will be over and our universe scattered. ”

“ To it naturally, this space of time is as great as the span of a human being who lives from seventy to eighty years. Benjamin Franklin once wrote a very interesting essay on the ephemera, a fly, which, lives but a single day yet, during that time, it no doubt experiences the counterpart of our own full lives. ”