The First Letter: Magnetars

I can't bring myself to fully destroy the first letter mentioned in my previous blog, so here it is:

The Magnetaric Pull is Infinite

As of 2010, magnetars are the strongest magnetic objects ever found. Its magnetic fields can be up to 100 billion times stronger than any manmade magnet. What makes these neutron stars particularly magical is that astrophysicists can’t pin down what makes them so alluring. Is it the combination of exotic matters combining into a superconducting fluid? Or was its nature predestined from its progenitor state? Whatever the cause, there’s no denying that the magnetar is as mysterious as it is powerful.

This intense pull is not only found in the cosmos. It can be found in the gaze of love. There is a boldness in it that shreds you apart, there is a magnetism in it that hypnotises you, and there is a thrill in it that turns you inside out. The Greeks tried to define love in little boxes: agape, ludus, philia, storge, and mania. What the Greeks failed to realize in doing this is that love, when pure, destroys and rebuilds all the same. Like the intense magnetar, its origins and output can’t be pinpointed or neatly organized. When love emerges, there is an explosive death of the old self, and a magnetic force that brings rebirth.

I saw two magnetars last month. Both of them wide and identical. Even better, I didn’t have to get out of bed to see them. The pull was worse than any comparison that any astrophysicist could make. They were a thousand cyclones in the Pacific. They were two vats of quicksand in the Sahara. They were everything I ever wanted. They spoke 100 billion words to me, and I almost looked away in fear that nothing I said could match them.

I’m glad I didn't.

Astrophysicists dedicate their whole lives to the stars, yet still can’t explain why a magnetar has such an intense magnetic field. The ancient Greeks, praised for their poetry, could not understand love as a fluid and twisted thing. Trying to study these miracles is far less rewarding than experiencing them for yourself.