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U is for Universe

Texture by Jay Hilgert: Nebula Paper 5 The sun, with all the planets revolving around it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the uni­verse to do. ~Galileo Galilei You just gotta love Galileo. The father of modern sci­ence, this bril­liant, rene­gade, mouthy, rad­ical insti­gator, outspoken …

Z is for Zero

Zero. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Nothing. Void. Goose egg. Webster defines it as: the arith­metical symbol denoting the absence of all mag­ni­tude or quan­tity. And so the uni­verse began. It is a common theory among cos­mol­o­gists that the uni­verse  began some 15 bil­lion years ago with a cat­a­clysmic event causing all known energy to instantaneously …