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“Here is my understanding of the Universe and mankind’s place in it at the present time:
The seeming curvature of the Universe is an illusion. The Universe is really as straight as a string, except for a loop at either end. The loops are microscopic.
One tip of the string is forever vanishing. Its neighboring loop is forever retreating from extinction. The other end is forever growing. Its neighboring loop is forever pursuing Genesis.
In the beginning and in the end was Nothingness. Nothingness implied the possibility of Somethingness. It is impossible to make something from nothing. Therefore, Nothingness could only imply Somethingness. That implication is the Universe–as straight as a string, as I’ve already said, except for a loop at either end.
We are wisps of that implication.
The Universe does not teem with life. It is inhabited at only one point by creatures who can examine it and comment on it. That point is the planet Earth, which is forever at the exact center of the implication, midway between tips.
All the twinkles and glints in the night sky might as well be sparks from a cowboy’s campfire, for all the life or wisdom they contain.” ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., “Wampeters, Foma & Granfaloons”
“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.” |
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 Douglas Adams |
