![]() ![]() In time, the equation of the universe will be solved. ![]() But what if the universe’s mystery isn’t what I see up there? My whole life I’ve tried to understand their mystery. Borges said we inherited this idea to help us reconcile a great truth that extends far beyond our reach. I’m not the first person to think that nothing and infinity are the same. Mars and the Milky Way, Rosetta, DecemA great circle of stars. Better yet: If I am nothing, I am infinite. That moment I could have died and forever been happy. I thought then of a distant star - so far away enough you’re unseen. I stood above an inscrutable darkness, an abyss of ocean inches from my feet. Like the stars, city-light only warms you when you’re close. I went to record the sounds of the ocean so that I wouldn’t be without them. It was winter and one of my last times there. I walked to the edge of Los Angeles one night. “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken.” The Ultraviolet Sun, TRACE, J Michael Benson ![]()
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