The Hubble Space Telescope is more than the sum of its parts. It is in the league of the camera — the marvelous instrument that mimics the human eye and then produces reports those images that are the reality of physical existence.

The stars that collide are more than the sum of their particles, too.

What’s “inside” their lights — stationary, moving, colliding?

And with regard to this concept: “Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.” -Carlos Ghosn

When the wedding of energyparticle and lightwave is announced, I want an invitation. I want to bring a gift and then watch as that marriage is navigated with my own sort of Hubble Space Tele-Micro-Scope. And I want to give grandmother love to whatever they produce as a result of their merger. There is no equation that can define such a wish, dear scientists.

(There is such a great field of poetry out there in space. It sings to me and fills my heart with a different kind of love.)