After everyone had finished eating, they sat back to listen to the entertainment of the place.
"Look, that's Elvis!" Boomer12k said, surprised.
"I thought he was dead," said Moonlady.
"He looks so young," said Orin Stepanek, who remembered the different ages of Elvis very well. "He must be a fake!"
"Not necessarily," said bystander. "I remember from the Original
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams that a person was spending a year dead at this restaurant for tax reasons. It would appear that people can be dead and then return to life in this particular restaurant, which is not completely a part of the universe as we know it. Perhaps whoever resurrected Elvis chose to bring him back from the period when he had most energy and looked his best."
Elvis now started to sing. He first sang "Love me tender". All the Asterisk* ladies were mesmerized by his song. The King then went on to an up-tempo version of "Blue Suede Shoes". All the Asterisk* men started rocking and digging, and Ann tried to sneak up to Elvis to check if he really wore blue suede shoes, and if he did, maybe steal them from him.
Suddenly Albert Einstein came strolling across the room.
"Wonder what he thinks about the universe as we know it," mused owlice.
"Yes, first he was right about the universe, then he said he was wrong, then it turned out he was right about being right and wrong about being wrong," observed Margarita.
"You mean the antigravity stuff?" asked Beyond.
"The proper term is dark energy," corrected Chris. "But this has given me an idea. Let's all go up to Einstein and talk to him. Where's Neufer?"
"Last I saw him, he said he'd found a guy named DeVere," said Rob Stevenson.
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"He said he had to talk Shakespeare with him."
"Well, go get him," said Chris. "I mean Neufer, not Devere. We all need to be here for the experiment I want to carry out."
Beyond, Boomer12k, emc, Orin Stepanek and Rob Stevenson wrestled Neufer away from DeVere and dragged him kicking and screaming
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" back to his fellow Asternauts.
Chris led them up to Albert Einstein. "Excuse me, Sir, may we speak to you?" asked Chris. Einstein looked up, confused.
"I think I read that they sliced up his brain after his death and sent the slices this way and that," said geckzilla. "Maybe he didn't get all his slices back. He looks kind of confused."
"Maybe he doesn't speak English anymore," suggested Moonlady. "I'll try to address him in German.
Entschuldigen Sie mich, Sir, können wir mit Ihnen sprechen?"
"That doesn't sound like very good German," noted Rob Stevenson. "Surely a German-speaking person wouldn't use the word "Sir" when addressing a gentleman in German?"
"It's Ann's fault", said Moonlady. "She made me speak Google Translate."
Meanwhile, Chris put out his right hand in Einstein's direction, inviting Einstein to take it.
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Suddenly, there was a tremendous amazing light, a deafening yet soundless bang, the kind of tremors that would uproot universes with their, eh, roots and the most overwhelming fireworks show you couldn't imagine in your wildest dreams. All the asternauts fainted. But before they fainted, they could feel themselves being spat out from the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and they could feel the Restaurant both closing and expanding at the same time.
"What happened?" said Margarita, when she had come to.
"It was the interface," said Chris.
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"I figured that if us living human asternauts, bringing with us the charges and physical laws of the universe we come from, were to touch the dead, resurrected Albert Einstein here in this universe that is not truly a part of us, the tension at the interface between our two universes might be such that we were forcefully propelled back to our own universe."
"You mean that our universe and Albert's repelled each other like a pair of protons?" asked Boomer12k.
"Well, not exactly," said Chris. "But the analogy will have to do."
"We
are back," said Rob Stevenson. "That's the Earth below us. Looks like we are at more or less the same height as the ISS. Imagine that. I've always wanted to orbit the Earth in the ISS."
"Look Rob, I can see Canada," said Margarita. ""And I wonder, is that Tenerife?"
"So how do we get back down to Earth?" asked emc, who was chomping at the bit.
"I've got my cell phone," said Beyond. "I'll call 911."
"But what happened to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?" asked Ann.
"Well, the Restaurant was always balancing on the edge of becoming its own universe," replied Chris. "I think we have injected the extra energy needed for the Restaurant to become a self-contained, probably expanding universe. There will be more tables at the restaurant and more guests."
"Does that mean we'll never see Elvis again?" asked Orin Stepanek.
"I'm afraid not," said Chris. "The restaurant is sailing its own course through a larger meta-cosmos, from which we are all excluded. We are all of us locked inside our own local universes."
"Look, there's a really long ladder outside," said Boomer12k. "I think someone wants us to come down."
"Let's go!" said bystander. "Shore leave for everyone!"
Ann