Cosmic Candy
Blown away. I ran across this Hubble image last night. It now resides as my computer desktop wallpaper. I can't get my mind off of it and have become all convoluted in thoughts of pond water and scurrying microbes; the speed of ciliated locomotion, of foot travel across the galaxy of our pasture, and of light; and a circular realm of 800 million suns shaped like a Mexican hat.
I expect to become pleasantly lost for a while in a wormhole of words. See you on the other side.
Comments
Like the spiderwebs and chance miracles of biology and physics on the skin of our own planet, these galaxies, stars, planets and other aggregates of debris still cascading outward from the initial explosion are random, natural, incomprehensible events-in-progress, each one beautiful and unique.
Posted by: Denny | March 11, 2004 10:30 PM