The Wound
The sky falling inward
In the worst wound zones, local expansion reverses: light blueshifts, and gravity starts winning.
In full
Spend the endowment locally and local expansion slows. Spend enough of it and the slowing turns over: galaxies drift together, light arrives blueshifted instead of redshifted, and the sky develops an unmistakable wrongness. It is the clearest diagnostic of a dying segment — and it is a symptom of depletion, not some separate cosmic contraction.
Key facts
- Local, not universal.
- Blueshift where redshift belongs.
- A symptom of depletion — not a Big Crunch.
- The most legible signature of a spent region.