“The 2nd Law: Ballad of Sun and Earth”

Forever bound, Earth and Sun make their way amid the dust lanes and luminous highways of the Milky Way. The heat of hot plasma shimmers against the blues and greens of a living planet. One, a roiling, gaseous star infused with thermonuclear energy. The other, a cool watery ball of silicon and iron. When we gaze upon the Sun, we glimpse Earth’s fiery birth within the limitless sweep of cosmic time.