discflame

today, a singular photon of light from the first star in the universe impacted an atom that comprised the sensor of the very large telescope in antofagasta, chile. through the photoelectric effect, proof of its existence was transmitted to the computer and rendered in an image being taken at the facility. the hapless scientist, unaware of the existence of this profound photon, applied a denoising filter to the data. being solitary, and not enough to raise its energy above that of the noise of stray, lesser photons, it was removed from the image. there, in the black spot a little to the left of center, is the location of the first star in the universe. its light now stretched beyond the length of radio waves, this chance detection of a single photon has gone unnoticed. nobody minds.