Sublime

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Three years after the breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion, new and unusual heavenly bodies had taken their place in the Earth’s night sky, up to five of them now simultaneously visible in one hemisphere. The bodies changed dramatically in luminance, outshining Venus at their brightest, and often blinked rapidly. Sometimes one of them would su

“So small. Are they probes?” “Yes, they must be probes.” This was another of Hubble II’s shocking discoveries:

separating out coherent spin from background radiation.

The more energy a photon has, the faster the fluctuation.

Absorbed light turns to heat. We can feel it, but it is no longer visible to the camera.

Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?