The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality. – Hermann Minkowski, 1908 So, I think that the darkness is actually a collapsed star, a black hole. One of the arg poems mention gravitational waves, and the image also depicts the darkness as a "field". gravitational wave wiki [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave[/url] In physics, gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as a wave, travelling outward from the source Sources of detectable gravitational waves could possibly include [b]binary star systems composed of white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes.[/b] It could also be that the darkness is actually a "black dwarf", maybe a future traveler that has burned out? *check out the white dwarf stuff* Regardless, either of these celestial "bodies" could still generate gravitational waves/totally dick up space-time. Btw, these gravitational waves would also imply that highly localized instances of time dilation are probably also occurring. Time dilation is an issue of relativity, and the clearest example I can offer is the one from the wiki page (because its kind of awesome). time dilation wiki [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation[/url] In the theory of relativity, time dilation is an actual difference of elapsed time between two events as measured by observers either moving relative to each other or differently situated from gravitational masses. Time dilation explains why two working clocks will report different times after different accelerations. For example, ISS astronauts return from missions having aged slightly less than they would have been if they had remained on Earth, and GPS satellites work because they adjust for similar bending of spacetime to coordinate with systems on Earth. *cough* awoken *cough* Also, that same arg image has what are clearly numbers embedded into the image, and I would argue that these are really "coordinates". Excerpts from the Minkowski space wiki (be sure to pay special attention to light cones) [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_space[/url] The spacetime interval between two events in Minkowski space is either [b]space-like, light-like ('null') or time-like[/b]. He further reformulated in four dimensions the then-recent theory of special relativity of Einstein. From this he concluded that [b]time and space should be treated equally[/b], and so arose his concept of events taking place in a [b]unified four-dimensional space-time continuum [/b][b]Points in this space correspond to events in space-time. [/b] ^^ why the game is called destiny, because arguably are actions can change our "destinies" by altering space-time. Finally, I am pretty sure that the traveler is either a neutrino star, or even more likely a white dwarf. P.s. I bet you guys didn't know that white dwarves can cool and become "black" dwarfs, did ya? Neutrino star wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star A neutron star is a type of stellar remnant that can result from the gravitational collapse of a massive star during a supernova event. Neutron stars are the densest and tiniest stars known to exist in the universe; with a [b]radius of only about 12-13 km (6 mi)[/b], they may have a mass of a few times that of the Sun. [b]Neutron stars probably appear white [/b]to the naked eye. White dwarf wiki *check out the stuff about black dwarfs* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf Its faint luminosity comes from the emission of stored thermal energy.[1] The nearest known white dwarf is Sirius B, 8.6 light years away, the smaller component of the Sirius binary star. There are currently thought to be [b]eight white dwarfs [/b] among the hundred star systems nearest the Sun. White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all stars whose mass is not high enough to become a neutron star—over 97% of the stars in the Milky Way.[5], §1. After the hydrogen–fusing lifetime of a main-sequence star of low or medium mass ends, it will expand to a red giant which fuses helium to carbon and oxygen in its core by the triple-alpha process. If a red giant has insufficient mass to generate the core temperatures required to fuse carbon, around 1 billion K, an inert mass of carbon and oxygen will build up at its center. [b]After shedding its outer layers to form a planetary nebula, it will leave behind this core, which forms the [b]remnant white dwarf[/b][/b]. Usually, therefore, white dwarfs are composed of [b]carbon and oxygen[/b]. Also, some helium white dwarfs appear to have been formed by mass loss in binary systems. the Chandrasekhar limit—approximately 1.4 solar masses—beyond which it cannot be supported by electron degeneracy pressure. A carbon-oxygen white dwarf that approaches this mass limit, typically by mass transfer from a [b]companion star[/b], may explode as a Type [b]Ia supernova [/b]via a process known as carbon detonation. Over a very long time, a white dwarf will cool to temperatures at which it will no longer emit significant heat or light, and [b] it will become a cold black dwarf[/b]. However, the length of time it takes for a white dwarf to reach this state is calculated to be longer than the current age of the universe (approximately 13.8 billion years), and [b]since no white dwarf can be older than the age of the universe[/b], it is thought that no black dwarfs yet exist. For some reason I had to rewrite this post this like 4 times now and I swear to god my original version was substantially clearer. Physics is a slippery bitch sometimes. Anyways, I have a bunch of other compelling bits of evidence/theories to offer but that will have to wait for another day.