Quarks

What is the only positive thing one can discern from Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time? Gravitational metaphors and black hole imagery. So, for those of you who indulge me on a daily basis:

Let's get sucked into a black hole. Once we are there, we will resist the inward pull of our bodies' particles. For what will seem like an infinitely long second, we will be. And yet, you and I will be aware that once this second is over, our bodies will cease along with time and gravity and everything that our seventh grade textbook told us was important. In the second that lasts for days, we will just look at one another. But once our particles are done waiting, the second will end. In the moment that is no longer a moment, our bodies dissipate into an infinitely dense mass of something we don't know yet. Stephen Hawking will observe this in the night sky. He will note that while nothing can escape our black hole, the area surrounding it emits radiation and something he describes as "the infinite possibilities they had."