Of energy and eternity

Leaving aside the thorny problem of how the energy in our universe became compressed into the singularity where we think the big bang gave birth to everything that followed 13.8 billion years ago there remains the issue of why pure energy should behave in such a way to create matter.

What drove quanta of energy to create a universe that has remained lumpy ever since.  So even without life there is a puzzle in the motivation of energy to coalesce, compress, burn, explode and collapse.

It is indeed remarkable that a habitable planet came out of the fractal chaos.

One step further and we have matter and energy working together to create life.  Why o earth would that happen.  Where does the wick (pagan word for spark of life) come from?

Our own story I am convinced will resemble that of Easter Island.  Our time is insignificant in terms of the cosmos.  Perhaps what remains may be able to evolve to survive sustainably on the detritus of our cursed race but thi is all very parochial.  Mankind is just another dominant life form and the universe will miss us.


I'm beginning to think that Lorenz's chaos is what will endure.

A last thought.... could the initial singularity may be the preceding universe compressed by a massive but tiny back hole until the tipping point when the cataclysm released to make our universe.

It is good to think that mankind is not inevitable and hence that sustainable life may survive our slow suicide.

Buddhism has a meditation exercise to see eternity in a grain of sand.  I think eternity may once have been even smaller than that.

Does it help to know we started from a singularity at which point infinite energy was concentrated and will end up as energy spread evenly through space?  I guess that means that is true that from dust we came and will return though the "dust"  will actually be tiny low energy objects.

To be able leave a lasting contribution to stability, community and sustainability must surely be the only goal.

I'm 57 and doubt that the scourge of exploitation will decrease much in my life.

Interesting though these ideas are they offer no help to our plight or hope of saving our planet.  Another puzzle...most of the world is now living unsustainably,  we are encountering viruses and diseases but few effective defenses.  Should we perhaps spend a couple of centuries on the issues that face us here and now.