This is what time looks like. All of it. Let me backtrack. 13.8 billion y ears ago, you were everything and nothing. Infinity and zero were the same number and they both equaled one. One was the universe before there was a universe. One was the reason neither distance nor time existed. How can you measure the distance between two points when only one point exists? How can you measure the time it takes to get from Point A to Point B when there is no such thing as Point B? Without time, it is impossible to say how long you were like this. Only that it was forever. And then suddenly, there was a Big Bang and Forever turned into Now. Now was the moment that came after Infinity but before Eternity. Now was the relative position of Point A to Point B, Point C, Point D and every Point 10 to the nth power, all hurtling away from each other at astronomical speeds through the newly existent astronomy. This astronomy became the cosmos as dista
Metaphysics is the study of philosophy from the point of view of an ethereal hippie. Quantum physics is the study of minutiae from the point of view of a fanatical mathematician. And yet, even they agree, you are codependent. The reason is because in either field all of reality is made up of the same two components: the observer and the observed. You can’t have one without the other. Without an observer, nothing can be perceived. Without something to do the perceiving, there is nothing to observe. Exhibit A: Cat being perceived versus a cat not being perceived. Now you might suggest that you don’t need to observe something to exist, “I think therefore I am, “ right? But what would you think about if nothing had ever existed? How would you know you existed if there was nothing to perceive, nothing to measure that existence by? No mirror. No others to interact with. Not even a body for you to occupy or language for yo