WARTS AND ALL

Like a crossword puzzle, Filly's face wasn't the sort that jumped out at you in an obvious way. Study provided its features with focus and for example the mouth which at first encounter seemed like something rather unfairly stuck on with haste, did develop a charm all of its own with increased exposure and of course, subdued lighting. Unkindly Filly was referred to as having been built for comfort rather than speed. It was true that she was well upholstered but there again most preferred the deep pile cosiness of several feather cushions to the less yielding basic thin wicker seat.

Filly's looks came into their own at Halloween. Like the stopped watch, her timing was spot on once every twelve hours. Unlike her friends she wouldn't need the help of spooky make up to go out trick or treating.

“You can take the mask off now,” was the unkind shout from her mate Stella who had herself dressed up as Dracula's bride. Filly wasn't bothered and said so.

“Am I bothered,” she said like the TV character played by Catherine Tate. “I am not bothered.”

But she was. Deep , deep down she was. She was the event horizon. Sucked in, she felt normal but she was heading down incapable of ever getting out. It was as though a truck had hit her at three hundred thousand miles an hour and she'd joined Einstein in the centre of his black hole.

Like a falling rain drop on the roof of the world, when F equals O and physics breaks down because gravity is infinite and time stops dead. The singularity is when you don't know what to do. The singularity is warts and all. Nature breaking down.

Ten years before her, he proved a black hole couldn't exist. With extra terrestrial physics the super massive black holes appeared with lots (thousands) of stellar black holes all around. Like ladies in waiting.

It was all about quantum mechanics and how quantum mechanics and gravity could live together.

Filly thought that quantum gravity was God and besides, she could just about see a halo under the shadow, like a crossword puzzle. Warts and all.