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What that picture proves to me
azstrummer — (archived)

since not so many years back that area was considered beyond the bounds of the universe, that humans have this innate desire to put boundaries on our image of our surroundings. There must be a beginning or an end which leads to the concept of a creator. Where that need falls down is that for every boundary another question simply pops up. If there were a beginning, what was there in the split second prior to the beginning? If there's a creator, who created the creator.

The answer seems obvious to me. No matter how much better our telescopes get, they'll never find an end to the "universe" just as there will never be found the beginning of time. What we, with our limited abilities can see and comprehend, was always there. To put a boundary on matter, energy and the void is to minimize it's grandeur not diminish it. I believe the "Big Bang" was simply an event in the infinity of time and space and assume those events happen all the time. When I look at an image like this one I see the wonder of the interactions of matter and energy not some hand of God.

Why can we assume this creator was always there and yet mandate that our realm has a start and finish? How can one not be even more astonished if they assume all this vastness and complexity arose from nothing more than the rules of physics and the randomness an infinite amount of time is certain to bring?

Our domain is nothing more than a horrendous and wonderful accident of chance with ingredients that simply always existed. Artists know the wonder and creativity of accidents. Some of the finest pieces of art and music were created when some failed attempt went off in another direction and the artist was smart enough to stay with it.

Art

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