Today I was at lunch with a physicist I know. His eyes lit with a golden glow, his cheeks flushed as he said with relish, “We don’t know what dark matter is, but dark matter is everywhere, and is responsible for all of us being…

“Tell ‘em all to stand up! Tell ‘em! Tell ‘em!” As if it will do any good. Let someone else stand up. Someone else, surely, will take a stand against the ills of this world. I am too busy being an artist, too busy being…

Physicists believe that the universe is shaped like the inside of a soccer ball, with holograms projecting all possible angles of view like Indra’s net; that black holes extrude through the walls of space-time like scattered spikes that can suck us out of this world…