Rest in the nature of alaya, the essence

The primordial plasma that filled the universe
was so hot that light couldn't propagate freely,
making the universe effectively opaque. sealed.

What look like hazy clouds in the light's intensity
are more and less dense regions—
hills and valleys that extend millions of light years across.

We're not just seeing light and dark,
we're seeing the polarization of light.
The faint polarization signal
is now directly visible.

Before, we got to see where things were,
and now we also see how they're moving—

like using tides to infer the presence of the moon,

by looking back to that time when things were much simpler, earlier,
we can piece together the story
of how our universe evolved
to the rich and complex place we find ourselves in today.

The light was always traveling. We built the mountain to be in its path.