the whole thingumajig is alive...

ain't it wonderful how a star dies (going supernova) and gives life to the next generation of stars?

a massive dying star throws out its layers back into the void, elements that are crucial for stars yet to be born and eventually creatures like us.

then it goes boom. the massive explosion sends shockwaves that make gigantic clouds of gas and dust coalesce into such density that nuclear reactions start and the next generation of stars are born.

and still we have doubts if there is intelligence in the universe?

relativity

i would rather be an infinitesimal mote of dust in an infinite cosmos than one of the ‘chosen ones’ of the so-called creator.

because i want to wonder whenever i look up at the night sky, about what is out there. without that feeling of wonder, i am nothing.

i want my imagination to wander through the endless void of the night. who knows what will turn up? whatever I find will be my truth.

you see, i have always believed that truth is relative; there are no absolute truths or a final ‘theory of everything’.

even if there is, i don’t see why we as a species would find it.

we are just temporary entities who exist on a tiny planet orbiting a minor star in the outer reaches of an insignificant spiral arm of an average galaxy that forms part of a minor galactic cluster which is just a small part of a galactic super-cluster which is probably just one of the trillions in the universe.

and who is to say that our universe is not just a miniscule region of an infinitely larger multi-verse?

the night sky...

i love the night sky.

but i find myself trying to imagine what the night sky would look like if viewed from a planet orbiting around a star in one of those globular clusters above the galactic plane?

(and there is every chance that those stars could have planets orbiting around them. for one thing, they are much older stars - redder in color).

just imagine watching the great galaxy rising - whole of the milky way - when night falls.

maan, wouldn't that be something?

in the beginning...

in the beginning there was nothing. no space, no time, no consciousness.

not even emptiness existed. it was more or less like a dreamless sleep.

then the most amazing thing happened; the concept we call reality popped into existence.