Artemis heads off to the moon, taking a glancing uppercut at this wonderful universe, a $4-billion project to please space geeks and dreamers.

I say go for it.

Meanwhile, my description of a circular universe the other day lacked nuance. As my buddy Preston notes, the universe is even weirder than oval. 

“The torus allows it to feed back into itself, from the macro- to the micro-universe in an unending feedback loop. There is a point of stasis where it stops for a picosecond.”

A lap around the universe ends up, he says, at a Starbucks in Pacoima  … “Specifically the pour-over rack, where God gets His usual.”

One of the many things I learned from working at The Times: No matter your IQ, your education, your depth, there’s always a reader way smarter than you.

FYI, a picosecond is one trillionth of a second. I looked it up.

Carry on.