something and nothing

there is a very important idea i came across when i was at work and overheard someone talk about god. personally, i dont think god has a hand in my everyday life, i figured that im just a puny little person in some floating ball in giant space, in wherever our reality is, im sure god has other things in his head besides whether or not shit goes my way. now what the person thought god had to say to him didnt matter, what did matter was me thinking about how the universe got started.

the universe might have started with the big bang, or with god, or with what i am about to tell you.

the balance idea of something and nothing.

if there is a universe (or something) there has to be the opposite (nothing). so in short, a universe or a something will always have to exist since there will always have to be nothing to define it.

similarly, there just cant be nothing, it needs its positive something in order for nothing to be defined as nothing. so in reality, we are here not just because of the big band, or a creator. but because there has to be something in order to define nothing.

“We should be amazed to live at this time. Here, at a random time in the history of the universe, on a random planet, on the outskirts of a random galaxy, where we can ask questions and understand things from the beginning of the universe to the end. We should celebrate our brief moment in the sun.”

—How the Universe Works: Galaxies - Lawrence Krauss.

Aw fuck.

How the Universe Works is on netflix instant play. There goes my day.

Damn you Mike Rowe and your glorious narration.

“Our sun is our step mother. Our true mother died in a supernova explosion to give birth to the elements which made up our body. But how come the poets and the songwriters, how come they don’t write poems to our true mother? It’s perhaps they don’t understand physics and the laws of stellar evolution.”

—Michio Kaku, How the Universe Works

“every atom in your body was once inside a star that exploded. and the atoms in your left hand may have come from a different star than the atoms in your right hand. you are literally star dust.”

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“We are star stuff. Without the supernovas, we could not exist. So when we walk around at night, and we look up at night sky and see the stars, and we feel somehow a part of it... the truth is, we are; they are our parents.”

—How the Universe Works, Supernovas

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Follow the world’s creators.

something and nothing

Aw fuck.

“every atom in your body was once inside a star that exploded. and the atoms in your left hand may have come from a different star than the atoms in your right hand. you are literally star dust.”

“We are star stuff. Without the supernovas, we could not exist. So when we walk around at night, and we look up at night sky and see the stars, and we feel somehow a part of it... the truth is, we are; they are our parents.”