Nova: the forming of a star

Nova: the forming of a star that draws attention.

Nova is a Latin noun: novae (if you ask why I'm fluent in and love Latin, I've explained in my post analyzing the scientific names of fish — but really it's all thanks to Wikipedia). Nova's original meaning is new, and in astronomy it refers to a "brightening new star" event — a new star shining for a few weeks or months. The adjective of novae is novus, and novus has novella as an adjective meaning "new" in a softer sense than novus, used a lot in Italian. English borrowed the word and mutated it into novel to mean "a work of fiction." All novels are new. Everything new is built on the ruins and traces of the old. That's how stars are formed: Nova.

Supernovae: the death of a star.

A star that dies gets the name "super-new." Super as in grandeur, enormity, magnificence. Not just because when it dies the star produces enormous energy and matter, but because people know what the ashes produce next will be magnificent. Earth, grass, trees, animals, humans — all are born from this magnificence.

Hypernovae: the death of the largest stars.

The biggest stars, when they die, produce 10 to 100 times the energy of supernovae. A bigness second only to the Big Bang: the origin of everything.

Blackholes are powerful too, but blackholes aren't powerful at creating something new and better — they kill the good. Most things called holes are not positive. Blackholes are the peak of negativity, stay far from them. It's very hard to stay far from negativity.

Nobody wants to see a blackhole near them, and even wanting to see one you can't.

Everyone wants to see a hypernova, and even not wanting to, you can't look away.

death wants to be a hypernova, the super-positive energy spreading most strongly when no longer existing. Especially when no longer existing.

death forces himself to be a hypernova, death carries it in front of him always to see. To remind himself to be good, good must be huge, huge by way of spreading. In case he forgets, no searching needed. You can't not see it.

(A small note about Latin: Latin isn't widely used anymore because Latin belongs to Rome. After Rome fell, many countries rose and declared independence and understood that to be free you needed your own language, as Vietnam did. Italy also had to drop Latin because if it had kept it, all of Europe would have hated Italy. Countries without their own language are never free.)

Type font: Supernovae. Laser engraved by: Phan Long.