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#6 Space-Time Sanskaar Worms Through

Two days since the wormhole. One day since the achaar ran out. It’s too late to go back for more, said his colleague. The astronaut did not tell his mother that, for then she would truly despair for him.

The systems were picking up something now.

“At the horizon!” laughed his colleague, partly because he was excited and partly since there was no such thing as a horizon in space. 

Man was not meant to see this far. We cannot process so much information. Human eyes - small, weak - can only deal with a little data at a few wavelengths. Without safety filters, they would get burned out of their sockets. The horizon protects.

He decided to mark Tuesdays henceforth. And then they waited for whatever it was to come into sight.