The sound a fuel makes when it is asked to do more than it can.
Two kinds of stored sunlight — one buried a hundred million years, one fermented last
season — meeting inside one cylinder, and a hundred-year argument about how hard you may
squeeze.
The three-register time spine
Deep · log scaleHuman · piecewise linear · seams labelledHorizon · Position, not fact
A horizontal timeline in three registers. Deep uses a
logarithmic scale from 13.8 billion years ago to 12 thousand years ago. Human uses a
piecewise linear scale from 8000 BCE to 2026, with six segments whose scale changes are
labelled on the seams. Horizon has no scale at all and holds positions, not facts.
Every beat on the diagram is also listed in full under "Read this plate as a list".
The spine keeps its type legible rather than shrinking — swipe or
scroll it sideways, or read the full list below.
True scale — this strip is never dismissible
Marks and labels are buttons: Tab to reach them, Enter or Space to open.
With the spine focused, ← and → walk beats in time order.
Selected beat
What this plate cannot show
Read this plate as a list — every beat, in full, as text