I’d like to be rather quiet here, OK? Why? Because the space we call the time portal is intended to slow things down and convey a sense of the eternity that the history of the Earth represents for us humans.
Let’s engage in a little thought experiment to bring the time of stone into a relationship with the time of humanity:
If you equate the entire history of the Earth with the duration of one year, it becomes clear how vanishingly short the time is in which we humans have colonized the Earth. The first ancestors of today’s Homo sapiens can be observed on the evening of New Year’s Eve. Advanced human civilizations develop 40 seconds before the end of the year. And the phase in which our species has completely transformed the Earth since industrialization lasts exactly one second! Hardly time for fireworks — thus, the question: will humans even survive the next few seconds?
Erich Fried writes in his poem “The Time of Stones”:
“Whoever hears the stones talk / knows / only stones will remain // Whoever hears the people talk / knows / only stones will remain”
And now: Listen to the stone — we’ll meet again by an Earth in motion at the top of the stairs.
