Mundane History Page #2

I don't know how long I'll be around.

You're not that old.

No, I mean I don't know how long I'll stay

here.

I'm sleepy.

Good morning.

What happened to your hand?

I had a little accident.

What happened?

I cut myself breaking a glass.

Dinner is served.

How is the food?

It is fine.

Let me know if you want anything special.

Thanks.

Do you mind if I say something?

Go ahead.

It was very unfortunate, what happened.

We wish it hadn't. But now that it did.

I know it's hard, but you can't give up.

I took care of you as a child.

And watched you grow up.

I know it hasn't always been easy.

But please remember that

it's not easy for your father either.

As a kid, I thought the world was flat.

And it was covered by a bowl.

The sun, the moon and stars

were all in our world.

In school, I learnt the world was round.

But I still believed it was flat.

When did you change?

I don't know.

When I grew up, I just knew

that the world was round.

Our ideas are hard to change.

Oh, that's it.

Where shall we sit?

That's a tough one.

How about right up front?

We have the place to ourselves.

There is still some time.

More people might come in.

Is it possible

for us to live without a past?

Without a future as well?

The future?

Who knows?

There is only today.

Ake...

How did the accident happen?

Every star has a finite life.

It is born, lives and dies like all

living things.

Once the hydrogen in a star's core is

depleted.

The star will be transformed.

Nature tries its best to preserve the

balance

by controlling this transformation.

But the star's death is inevitable.

When a star with small mass loses energy

it becomes a white dwarf.

It sheds its outer layers to form a

nebula

a pale remnant of what it once was.

A star with large mass that has always

shone bright

will have a stellar and luminous death.

It explodes into a supernova.

This stellar explosion rips the star

apart.

And propels matter into space

at a speed of over 10, 000 km per second.

The supernova radiates as much energy

as one billion suns.

After it explodes, the star goes dark

and leaves behind a trail of gas and dust

where it once shone bright.

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