Nightwandering among the fingerprints of Nature
related by Arthur, Nightwandering Ez Perjezlah of the Fourth Generation
Early night stretched broad above me, Lora, and Tana as they sat talking in the Spiral Garden. “We are zooming through space right now,” Lora commented.
“Ah, to feel the cobwebs of stardust brush against our inner cheeks is good,” Tana laughed.
Lora had just been studying some Digital Sky Survey maps and their upgrades that had been accomplished by huge teams of scientists over three generations. The distribution pattern of galaxies fascinated her. She tried to imagine the dense anticipation of the originating scientists and lay observers for what the first computer-generated maps might reveal.
“Fractals,” Lora said.
“Rorschach effect,” Tana countered.
“You mean like when ancient humans saw the moods of their respective god/desses in the weather or the sea, it was merely a projection of human imagination, or is there a pattern in…
