Nothing capable of carrying information can move faster than the speed of light. This is why the cosmologists have come up with what they call the “event horizon”: the boundary beyond which we cannot know what happens. Light signals emitted millions of years in the past and whose existence we yet know nothing about. This horizon is not flat, however, but encircles us, or enspheres us; a closed, impermeable ball until the point at which its obverse is indicated by a simple formula linking speed and time together. Then nothing materializes as everything, and, during the shooting of Journey to Italy, Ingrid Bergman weeps to see a couple embracing in the lava at Pompeii—an “event horizon” that was not in the script, but that somebody happened to be in place to film, to transfer or elevate it to fiction. The artist Damien Hirst says to the media: “The only thing my work demonstrates is the physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living.”