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Genesis.V2.exe

Boom   Okay, so I don't know how or why - all of a sudden reality explodes into being. It is said that since this is the moment that space expands into existence there is no "outside" or "into" for it to "expand into". Up, down, left and right and every direction in between are all hot off the presses. I visualise that in a dimension beyond imagination, a point of potential can no longer contain itself and explodes or implodes 3D space into being, from our point of view space is expanding outwards, creating more of itself, as my cube resists the force of the reality-tsunami that has just enveloped it. Who knows? For now this whole part of history is out of our reach, unless you're willing to believe that an anthropomorphic dictator created us all. I don't see how that's too different from a hypothetical super-dimensional explosion that has no source, but there are clues and facts that we can trace back which make it more likely than a homop
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Genesis.V1.exe

Au Debut: Rien (In the beginning: nothing) My version of  "In the beginning God created the heaven and the Earth."  would instead read "Hydrogen is an odourless, colourless gas which, given enough time, turns into people.". I still don't know who said it* but it has this beautiful simplicity that betrays the titanic scale of the story it contains. I'm tempted to draw parallels between it and equations like E=Mc2, both of which are elegant in their simplicity despite the enormous cosmological phenomena they each describe. I can say it in one breath, yet it holds the story of billions of years of history; in between the lines it reminds me of how we materialised from almost nothing. 'Nothing' as a concept is very subjective. It means different things to different people, in different situations. Once I've finished a bottle of water I might say that there's nothing in the bottle now. Someone else could say "Actually, there is air in the bot
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Let me tell you something.

 Well... I've heard it said that someone who truly understands something should be able to explain it to someone in such a way that they too will be able to understand it. Should one be addressing a young child, inquisitive teenager, middle aged dilettante (such as myself) or a seasoned professor - if one understands something properly it should be possible to effectively communicate it regardless of your audience.  There is no shortage of subjects that fascinate me. To quote someone that Neil Degrasse Tyson quoted, during one his many captivating orations, "As our sphere of knowledge grows so too does our perimeter of ignorance." It is with this sentiment that I look on my curiosities and come to terms with the reality that, no matter how enthusiastically I unravel something, I will eventually come to a point where my amateur approach to learning hits a brick wall.  One of the subjects I find intriguing above all others is the scientific discipline and the quest to under
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