believing that some waves could dissipate, that something else would arrive to replace them; nothing does. Microwaves make nothing. They just go bouncing around the universe, just land again near someone else. I finally bought a new microwave. This sary explanations, labels printed below each item in one is clean and each aisle. Our understanding is that of never really. uninherited. It is Never. Really. Picture a string, a particle, a wave; made of brushed and then unpicture it. It is not the thing you have metal and has a called it. beeping that I can’t Here’s another: We are the time-traveling light turn down. of a far-off star flickered out. From across the galaxy, telescopes aimed into history can tell we are already gone. It’s just these microwaves we shed, causing heart problems in convenience stores, causing heart problems. No chart can explain where those microwaves go when we have lost them. Particles relocate but do not dissipate. Half-lives break down further still, lived again in increments, returning. This is the same myth I will keep telling, I will keep retelling, I will keep falling. Picture the night sky, planetarium dome; and then unpicture it. And then unpicture it.
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