Things that don't happen

Nobody gets to live forever, at least not in the same form. So what's the point of this life anyway? You might just as well call it the art of dying for all its pertinent directionality; it is, more or less, a philosophical entropy of sorts….we see things happening one way all the time and never the other way and wouldn't it just shock the hell out of us to see the laws of Thermodynamics violated before our very eyes?? To see the coffee in your cup spontaneously cool down and begin to swirl around… to see one end of a spoon heat up while the other cooled off simultaneously or to feel all of the air in a room suddenly rush to one corner and just stay there. All of these non-events do not surprise us in their absence because we have grown accustomed to a certain rigid set of physical rules and so we have at the same time grown apathetic or unobservant of the obvious implication that they must be violated somewhere for them to be upheld here. If you are a true believer in the almighty equal sign, the same one that makes the science of equation analysis possible, you know that someone, somewhere, over the rainbow is breaking all the rules with reckless abandon.

We allege that the same holds true for graphic truisms in mathematical concept. Everything that is described in the upper right hand quadrant is tangible and passes the test of reality and therefore gains our acceptance and yet none of it could ever exist with out the other three quadrants that are not tangible, or at least not tangible to us.Ergo it is the ultimate in conceited intellect that describes itself as the human mind because it is relentlessly rejecting what must be accepted while at the same time conjuring up that which cannot possibly be. When you stop to think about it for a moment it is amazing that we have not yet consumed ourselves with our own fragility, stupidity and ignorance. [but hey give it some time ] Maybe that is, in and of itself, proof that somebody out there somewhere has put up a great cosmic parapet so that we the self be-knighted uber-race don't stumble off the side and plummet into the vast and unsearchable cosmic reaches of our own doom.

As minute a part of the Universe as we are, we must necessarily be reduced to pondering the majestic expanses from the standpoint of philosophy because the actual physical examination of what lays before us in any night sky is not something attainable in terms of our present knowledge and ability. Nothing is more troublesome to the mind of man than limitation therefore we look with passion, we look with curiosity; we look with awe and humility at that which we can only imagine and realize that we will never actually prove. We look with optical machines that have huge glass lenses to bend the light into magnified images, we look with radio receivers that translate cosmic energy pulses into virtual images and we look with our minds into the vast and unreachable searching for the answers that we feel we must have, for the pieces that fit. All the while we hardly notice whilst staring into the face of immeasurable and unfathomable time passage (if indeed time actually does pass) how the biological machinery that houses all of the this burning passion wears down, grows old, and finally succumbs to the ultimate entropy which is order and at the same time oblivion.

Even now, despite our limited ability to reach out and touch some-quasar, the cutting edges of astro-physics have determined that the outer reaches of our Universe are accelerating…ahh well, I never did like the big bang theory anyway and what good is a cosmic egg if it can't be poached? Eh? So here we have a law breaker on our hands. Whereas the center of all physical matter should be exerting a pull on the outer reaches that can be measured in deceleration we see instead that, thermodynamically speaking, energy of immeasurable quantities is being poured into what should already be a system heading for heat death but it is not because it is making gains. Once again we face the ghastly possibility of a non-event in the absence of any plausible explanation for where all of this energy is coming from because if it is coming from somewhere it must be outside the system according to the laws of thermodynamics which state rather emphatically the DeltaU = W+T!!! But no! There is no system outside of the known Universe is there? If there was it would have to exist in any or all of the other three quadrants of mathematical analyisis that are all taboo! Good then, to hell with the equal sign and let 2+2 equal whatever