The Discovery Was Accidental. The Doubt Wasn't
I wish I could say I felt awe when we found the spiral in the Oort Cloud. But honestly? I felt tired. Not the good kind of tired after a breakthrough, but the kind that makes you wonder if you’d even notice if you’d missed it.
We weren’t even looking for it. Just another late night, editing the planetarium show, chasing accuracy because that’s what they say matters. The data glitched, the projection looked wrong, and for a second I thought, 'Of course. Another mistake.'
Turns out, it wasn’t. But the emails, the meetings, the sudden pressure to explain what we’d found—none of it felt like discovery. It felt like being exposed. Like every time I thought I understood something, the universe just reminded me how little I know.
Everyone else called it a breakthrough. I just kept thinking about all the things I’d missed before, and how many more I probably will.
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