Comfort

photo: F. Levy

Eternity is reassuring. It's nice to realize the world will continue to turn, even if it’s hit by a gigantic asteroid, and that space and time are irrefutable--that If there is no more dark matter or dark energy, still a vacuum remains. Before the Big Bang and the creation of the boson, there was by definition an undefined primordial ether. The question of the beginning of time is a subject of speculation by cosmologists though the notion of an immeasurable non-space non-time is inconceivable. You may come upon some roadside diner in the middle of nowhere to find a mother and son ordering vast quantities of food most of which ends up being squirreled away in styrofoam containers provided to this not particularly improbable couple by an indifferent waitress with tattooed arms.