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In the second half of the 20th century, the world became, quite literally, a darker place. Defying expectation and easy explanation, hundreds of instruments around the world recorded a drop in sunshine reaching the surface of Earth, as much as 10 percent from the late 1950s to the early '90s, or 2 to 3 percent per decade. [Source]
Astronomers Tuesday announced new evidence that the mysterious force known as dark energy is causing the universe to expand ever more rapidly, perhaps eventually leading to cosmological "loneliness," in which galaxies grow so far apart that the heavens will appear empty. [Source]
According to legend Mom
sustains the universe
by yelling
"Stay here
where it's safe"
when every star wants to run home
to her.
Now every single star
knows
she wants only
what's best
and winks steadily
to show it will obey,
and this winking
feels like the middle
of an interesting story.
This is where
our history begins.
Well, perhaps not history, but we do
feel ourselves preceded.
(Homeostasis
means effortlessly
pursuing someone
who is just disappearing.)
Rae Armantrout, from Made To Seem
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