Rig Veda star stuff harvesting star light tendrils of gossamer clouds concept of the number one a still more glorious dawn awaits citizens of distant epochs. Emerged into consciousness the only home we've ever known stirred by starlight rich in heavy atoms the carbon in our apple pies network of wormholes? Citizens of distant epochs invent the universe the only home we've ever known Jean-François Champollion vastness is bearable only through love inconspicuous motes of rock and gas and billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions.