Meaning of Emptiness | Babel Free
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“Few people without a training in science can realise⟳ the huge isolation of the solar system. The sun with its specks of planets, its dust of planetoids, and its impalpable comets, swims in a vacant immensity that almost defeats the imagination. Beyond the orbit of Neptune there is space, vacant so far as human observation has penetrated, without warmth or light⟳ or sound⟳, blank emptiness, for twenty million times a million miles. That is the smallest estimate⟳ of the distance to be traversed before the very nearest of the stars is attained.”
“It seems that they existed in some sort⟳ of previous incarnation of our universe, and use⟳ abstract terms to describe⟳ their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort⟳ of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe⟳ at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set⟳ of principles and order⟳ that grinds things down to nothing, in a process⟳ of which entropy is just one part.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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