7 & 3

Details from an old railroad car. Use of double exposure inspired by the paintings of Jasper Johns.


The mountain that remains when the universe is destroyed
is not big and is not small.
Big and small are

comparative categories, and to what
could the mountain that remains when the universe is destroyed
be compared?

Consciousness observes and is appeased.
The soul scrambles across the screes.
The soul,

like the square root of minus 1,
is an impossibility that has its uses.

Imaginary Numbers, by Vijay Seshadri


"During the Dark Era, the universe will consist of only a few subatomic particles and potentially dark matter, which is an little understood substance that does not absorb, emit, or reflect electromagnetic radiation and may not decay at all. Whatever remains, however, will be very spread out. That’s because as the universe cools, it will likely continue to expand. Scientists still debate how much the universe can balloon up, but by the time of the Dark Era, even a volume of space larger than our current observable universe might only contain a single, solitary subatomic particle."

Adler, Doug. (2021, Jan). The Beginning to the End of the Universe: A Cold, Lonely Death. Astronomy