Deepest Visible-Light Photo of Cosmos Photograph courtesy NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI) and the HUDF Team

 The Cosmos: Don't Even Ask

The long view, which is to specify the 

stratospherically long view, appears in the

literature as describing that ephemeral, 

distant object as a filament.  A strand of 

a spider's web is a filament.  This describes 

our micro world, our microscopically

approachable view of what we take to be 

our world.  Perhaps the eager and excited 

astrophysicists meant to describe

the indescribably faint and distant

whatever they espied a figment, as of a

feverish imagination - but no, it is/was,

they knowingly insist, "...a filament

connecting two clusters of galaxies

that, along with a third cluster, will

someday smash together and give rise to

one of the largest galaxy superclusters

in the Universe".  Do not question: they

know this based on theory, speculation,

observation and intuitive brilliance

matching the eye-blinding brightness of 

that dangling orb about which we revolve.