cosmology
How did the Universe get here? That’s a good question. Actually, the Universe was a lost possibility. A potentiality that was wandering between what mighta been and mightnotta been. It just sort of simmered, that way, in nothingness before it became somethingness. Now where this potentiality of possibility was or came from before it got lost is something I’m still working on. I think it’s the same place that quarks go when they aren’t here anymore. But while lost, and simmering in this endless nonmeasure of notime, the tension between what might be and what almost was increased, exponentially. And at some point in its nonpoint linearity, it exploded. And nothingness became somethingness. And this somethingness was incoherent, confused.
Different eddies moving different speeds and directions and vectors developed tendencies towards personalities. Some might call them gods. But they’re just aspects of confused randomness. And after a while tensions and stresses and frictions developed between these tendency currents. And a war broke out in Heaven. The Lucifer tendency got pissed because the God tendency had trendier tenets, which ticked off the God tendency and the resulting explosion when Lucifer was hurled from the heavens resulted in what we know, what we call the Big Bang.
It’s not that the God tendency was right. It’s just that it had more flow. And you can’t buck flow. It’s been downhill ever since.
I do have an idea of where these tendencies come from in the first place, this lost possibility. It actually comes through leaky vents from alternative universes. The trouble with this is of course that alternative universes also have to have their origins. What I suspect is just a round robin. They all feed on and off of each other. They get out of order and leak bits over here, create us. We leak stuff and create others. Ad infinitum. Like an endless game of cosmic musical chairs, only with no empty chairs. And even if we could go back and explain how the very first one started, that would still leave the music unexplained, which drives the whole thing.
There is no best or worse universe. There’s only logic and flow, and chance. You should go with the flow. Things go better than if you go against the flow. Unfortunately, 99.999% of humanity doesn’t even know flow exists. They try to impose their will on flow, rather than go with flow or collaborate with flow or play with flow. So the world we’ve created is truly fucked up. It’s anti-logic. It’s anti-flow.
And there is no best or worst of worlds. There are just best or worst of ways to handle what is. And again, what is has tendencies. And is is all things at once. It’s what you expect to see or ask to see that collapses all is into specific is. And if you keep collapsing is into negative shit, which most people do, you’re going to end up with this humungous pissed-off negative universe which gets off by stomping you. But if you expect a playful universe that has a wry sense of humor, that’s what you experience.
So once again it’s the quest of good against evil. If we can get enough good folk playing with a happy playful flow, we’ll have a happy universe. But right now, it’s like the bad guys are winning. Too much Barry Manilow. Not enough Meat Beat Manifesto.
The way the scientists figure it, the universe is composed of 5% normal matter. This 5% is everything we can see and measure. That means 95% of the universe we have no idea what’s going on. They break that 95% down into 25% dark matter and 70% dark energy. I’d say that’s pretty accurate. We seem to have about 5% good folk and 95% weak, bad folk on this earth. But the good news is 5% of focused light can vanquish 95% of confused darkness. So it’s up to us 5% to save the universe from darkness.
Plus this makes a difference, because we’re leaking out our edges and creating other universes. And if we leak light, we’ll give the other universe a whole better chance of survival. And if we keep leaking dark, there’s just going to be more of the same old going on.
- Kathy Ireland Smith & Steven B. Smith - December 26, 2006
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