The universe is stretched too thin.
We listen for the resounding snap.
Scientists are baffled; poets laugh.
Philosophers gear up for a sudden freeze.
Dark matter we’ve covered; dark energy, too.
Neither can be captured, seen or weighed;
but once hypothesized, theorized, it’s proven
unless and until the next best theory butts in —
and still a theory lives… a proven theory.
Tonight I waste little thought matter,
dark thoughts on cosmological diddling.
My universe is stretched
as far as she will go.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-cosmic-tension-the-universe-might-be-too-thin-20200908/
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