Even the particles we do see are thought to be just visible blips of energy fields that permeate the entire universe, like waves cresting above an invisible ocean.
Soon " the world rushed in" : the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the birth-control pill, the cresting of the movement for Black civil rights.
A mound-in-motion ran parallel to their rock island—moonlit ripples, sand waves, a cresting burrow almost level with Paul's eyes at a distance of about a kilometer.
There's this moment where the wave is kind of cresting and you see someone decide to go in and like your heart stops for them kind of to see what's going to happen.
Where the Duke pointed, crescent dune tracks spread shadow ripples toward the horizon and, running through them as a level line stretching into the distance, came an elongated mount-in-motion—a cresting of sand.