After many months of strong growth, both the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan are starting to ponder how they can wean their economies off short-term interest rates that are abnormally low or, in Japan's case, their normal nothingness.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood: Curve balls | The

In Ensor's "Entry, " the rebuke is clear: The dots of color that trace the path of Ensor's parade dissipate into infinity and nothingness in the distance.

WSJ: A Macabre Kingdom of Masks | James Ensor | Christ's Entry Into Brussels in 1889 | By Mary Tompkins Lewis

That (as Einstein showed) means that from the particle's point of view time stands still and space contracts to nothingness.

ECONOMIST: Cosmology