play on

I'm reminded by a classmate that the science times reported, a year ago, that astronomers "had convincingly seen, in the patterns of galaxies across the night sky [as opposed to the day sky?], the vestiges of sound waves that rumbled through the universe after the Big Bang" and "stars and galaxies tended to form along the ripples of the sound waves where matter was slightly denser, and the pull of gravity slightly stronger."

music of the spheres? no, very different, but still, I love this idea of locating sound in the biggest quietest space we know, and that this one event our genesis is ages later making noise.

do scientists know why gravity is stronger where there is sound? why matter is denser there? I would like to understand this, and not just for the beauty of the thing, though that is there, but because it seems like something to understand.

"I would not think to touch the sky with two arms." Sappho writes but thinking makes it so.