Mr. Jenk­ins hur­tled with all pos­si­ble speed toward a mostly non­de­script but increas­ingly insuf­fer­able lit­tle blue dot tucked away in a for­got­ten cor­ner of the cos­mos and won­dered, not for the first time, why the one immutable Law of the Uni­verse had been writ­ten the way that it had. […]