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Universe as the Theory of the Eternal Return Before entering to the central idea of Borges in this subject we remember that the doctrine at issue Of course has origins registered in papyruses and parchments that the Hindu, great intuitive restlessness initiators had much to do with the subject before giving it the Buddhist, prime brothers in the spirit are born Palpas There, stages that the rising world must cross until arriving at its own west the birth from the world must to the ideal compression and its destruction, to the conflagration Something more: the number of Kalpas is infinite, as Heraclitus is it the number of retornantes cycles also yielded to the fascination of the great cosmic wheel that being born of the fire returns again with stubbornness, to the Nietzsche fire, on the other hand, had to start off of the infinitud of the time and of the finitud of the matter, to maintain the eternal repetition of worlds as Borges in the "Library also did of Babel" But modern science has said its word about the theory at issue We remember the theory of Big-Bang explosion that takes place after which a point of infinite density explodes to give rise to the universal universe that it will be contracted again until the point of infinite density to cause new Big-Bang In one of his tests including in the "History of the Eternity" Borges systematizes his ideas on the individual But a explanation is needed previa:en these critical summaries of its work I speak of Borges like of the personage that are expressed in the literary fiction I do not speak Then of Borges like Director of the National Library, seems that literato Borges the champion of the time nonlinear in the narration parangona an atom with a miguita of bread that can be divided in and more smaller parts every time, until "the infinite" and seems that it makes to give us again famous the false indications that allow to the literary game This intelección estimate that the mental symbol set has the same properties that a set of objective things the theory of the Eternal borgeana Return creates problems to us of great content: Which will be the "initial state" that will be recycle in the infinite? He will be the one that existed a second after the explosion of the cosmic egg? The one that was a trillion of years before? As of what moment the repetition process will begin? This is a beside the point rhetorical question since everybody would know the answer: as of the prístino moment of the creation with which the universe would have a principle and therefore would have been created by some divinity (the search of some God, on the part of the great agnostic, follows) If an endless eternity is wanted but with principle a mental feat similar to the one is made to imagine a wood with a single end mental feat worthy to cause the imaginative curiosity of Borges the story with the borgeano personage takes us to the necessity to review more close by the platonic thesis of seven planets Finally: if the number of atoms that fits in a meter were equal to the number enrolled in the universe, as ******* Ojala raises Borges the atoms of a straw divided for the infinite would be enough to fill to the same universe ***** that these prolegómenos serve the reader to him to undertake the privileged work to read to the Borges of the "Eternal Return" (Beckett: Mario Blacutt Mendoza)