Ahab is a monopole—an impossible particle theorized but never observed, a singularity of obsession dragging the Pequod through turbulent moral spacetime. The white whale is the unmeasurable, a cosmological constant of myth whose mass shifts depending on the observer’s terror. Ishmael drifts between them as a neutrino-like witness: omnipresent, nearly massless, passing through catastrophe without … Continue reading 61. Moby-Dick — Herman Melville