In other words, light can be coaxed into new shapes. When I was in high school, my English teacher, Ms. Mulvihill, gave each of our classmates an individual question to answer for a final assignment. The dog drove himself crazy, running in circles, teeth bared, hunting his own hind legs. One day, racing after his tail, he bit it off. In this year of solitude, disorientation and distance, we have been navigating what feels like misshapen terrain and time.
Even as we mourn the people we have lost, scientific innovation is thriving, and salving. Darkness can seem like an endless, unbounded surface. We can walk it alone; we can walk it together. But we now know something else can be an infinite curl, a dizzying ground, an effervescent hypothesis confirmed: light. It only needs a little nudging. Serena Alagappan graduated from Princeton University in June, , with a degree in comparative literature.
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Source: brilliant. Central part of a mosaic of a Roman villa in Sentinum in Italy.
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