Sheldon Lee Compton Daniel Olah Forget the stars. They have abandoned you into mystery. There are more cosmic godheads than these neutron stars. There are more supernovas, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your host galaxies. But even supernovas cannot matter in this cavity of endless imaginings. A star collapsing is only a reflect-mist of vapor disappearing at the exact rate it’s appearing. One casts off the other until we are all left wondering if anything happened at all. Was