mechanics
We are only alive for a cosmic second
and each gluon and quark and photon
and electron individually is like a nebulae
if you look at it hard enough and each
millimetre of our bodies contains
1000000000000000000
atoms and quantum theory tells us that
the universe is made up of the reaction
that takes place when a blanket of things
that are everywhere and nowhere at the
same time interact and we can see and we
can breathe and everything that can happen
will happen but it only happened because of
an infinitesimal bit of luck but you know what
that is ok because the universe is so enormous
that infinitesimal luck occurs all the fucking time
and because of that we are probably surrounded
(in as much as we can be)
by civilized life and beautiful planets with
one hundred metre trees and endless oceans
and other creatures just waiting to be discovered
and even though I can comprehend all of this I still can’t understand
why you died.
Stu Buck
Sat 2nd Jan 2016 09:23
i quite agree! i just finished a wonderful book called '7 brief lessons on physics' and have now started 'the quantum universe' by brian cox. quantum theory seems to require you to take as huge a leap of faith at the outset as religion!