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In this rather fun abstract piece, the left side of the hour glass represents the mysterious "dark energy" that seems to be hastening the expansion of the universe. The squiggly energy elements were first drawn in pencil, then scanned and colorized. Galaxies and other conventional matter objects on the right were created the same way. The magazine also contains some interesting diagrams illustrating the consequences of this accelerating expansion. For example, supercivilizations will eventually run out of resources because the expansion will eventually carry all but local galaxies forever out of reach. Utimately, our own observable universe will consist solely of the Local Group of galaxies.
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