EQUILIBRIUM
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard – Journals
PROLOGUE: Outer Space: ABY 04/09/22 GST
Thus shadow owes its birth to light.
John Gay – The Persian, Sun, and Cloud
How was the cosmos born?
Some people say it emerged out of the unity of the Cosmic Force and the Living Force. Others, who don't believe in those old fairy tales, say it hedged from an egg.
What is an egg, though? Egg white and yolk. So you could say both explanations more or less amount to the same.
The man examining questions like this, for example the nature of Dark energy by monitoring supernovae as standard candles, somewhere so far out in the Unknown Regions that even the passage of a giant space turtle would have left him unfazed, felt a sudden lurch in his stomach.
He was accustomed to pain, in his stomach as much as elsewhere in his aged, maimed body, but this was different. He closed his eerily blue eyes and, in his mind, followed the aching until he thought he had traced it back to its source. Nasciturus, flashed through his head, and: powerful light.
But where there was much light, there inevitably was much shadow, too.
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