Let there be light
She walked through a corridor which led to a large room that must have been the living room. She could hardly see anything. All the shutters of the house were closed and she could scarcely make out the outlines of the furniture. There was a smell of old library, paper, ink, wax and dust. No sound could be heard from outside, only a few creaks from the house echoed in the silence.
From the inside, it seemed as if there was nothing beyond the walls, that the house was a world in itself. A space so dense that it folded in on itself, where the breath itself folded in on itself to the point that we cannot imagine that there could be a noisy street, passers-by, sunshine, the scent of spring beyond its walls. If as far as we can see with our powerful telescopes we see nothing but ourselves, it must mean that there is a beyond.
Grace opened all the shutters in the house, starting with the living room. Dazzling light streamed in through the windows, revealing an amazing scene. All the furniture, walls and floors were covered with black sheets. Each room was richly furnished and the shapes suggested furniture from different eras: wardrobes, chests of drawers, large tables, armchairs, classic, Victorian, art nouveau, design, contemporary. Only an old television from the seventies was uncovered, placed in a corner. It looked like it had only just been installed here. Grace pressed the big plastic button to turn it on and her own face appeared on the gray CRT screen. Grace on the television said this :
"One day at the university, there was a lecture by a French researcher, a specialist in complex systems. I went there out of curiosity. At the beginning of his presentation, he said that in our universe a perfect sphere does not exist; which means that if someone makes the most perfect sphere possible and throws it onto a perfectly smooth surface on a perfectly straight trajectory, the sphere would sooner or later deviate to the left or to the right. And even if the observer knew all the initial conditions of the sphere's motion exactly, he could never say with certainty where it would actually end up. I later thought that this meant that if a will had created the universe, it had decided it would be impossible to predict what would happen. If God exists, He lost power over His creation the instant He created it. God is a joker."