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The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Tom Young, October 2026

A bear sits on a mountain ledge at sunset, looking out over a glowing river valley and endless peaks, as stars, the Milky Way and a distant galaxy come out overhead.

As the nursery rhyme says, with great wisdom, the bear went over the mountain to see what he could see, and all he saw was the other side of the mountain. We have always filled what we can’t see with something special: fairies and dragons past the horizon, and things that go bump in the dark. Cosmology does the same at the edge of what we can observe. It gives us a beginning, an inflation field and an undetected dark energy. EGC takes the bear’s view. Beyond our horizon there is more universe, much like Our Universe: the same complex and amazing matter, pulled by the same inexplicable gravity, doing the same amazing things. We just can’t see it.

We understand only a small part of it, and some of it may never be known. EGC’s point is simply that we don’t need to invent anything new to explain what we see. What’s already out there is wonder enough.