Here’s one to rattle your cosmic thinking. Do you recall last week’s so-called “sonic booms”? Of course you do. You were among those secretly fearing the end of the world, as is common among folks who have little or no experience with ends of worlds – or what they first sound like. Well, bizarre oceanic booms like those are far from sonically new. Neitherare the associated touches of human histrionics over things that go bump in the day.