Tag: water

If water had its way, if geology stopped, the seas would chew up the continents, and rain would wear down the mountains. Water would eventually scour the entire planet into a smooth, definitionless sphere. We’d be left with a single ocean, waist deep, all over the globe. Then, with nothing left to throw itself at, all the divisions and obstacles eroded – no unworn pebbles, no beaches to crash into, every water molecule touching another – water would disclose, finally, what was in its molecular heart. Would it stand calm and unruffled? Or would it turn on itself – would it throw itself up into storms?

If water had its way, if geology stopped, the seas would chew up the continents, and rain would wear down the mountains. Water would eventually scour the entire planet into a smooth, definitionless sphere. We’d be left with a single ocean, waist deep, all over the globe. Then, with nothing left to throw itself at, all the divisions and obstacles eroded – no unworn pebbles, no beaches to crash into, every water molecule touching another – water would disclose, finally, what was in its molecular heart. Would it stand calm and unruffled? Or would it turn on itself – would it throw itself up into storms?