Free Benford Story at Lightspeed

Gregory Benford’s “Leaving Night” at Lightspeedmagazine.com is an impressive thought experiment that weaves together cosmology and theology.

Very quietly, in the dark of night, people began disappearing. Later research showed that they vanished while in their deepest sleep. The few available videos of sleeping people revealed that the air around them shimmered for a few seconds amid a soft humming sound….