The world is coming to an end if you hadn't heard. Particle accelerator experiments at CERN may create tiny black holes which some scientists think could join and destroy humanity. It's unlikely, or so i'm led to believe.
We had a discussion today at lunch about theoretical physics. Dark matter, dark energy, and other things that even most cluey physicsts I know don't understand. Someone commented on how pointless it all is, how meaningless everything and existence is. We are one tiny part of something so huge and mind boggling that it beggars belief.
But in all that here we are. You and me. Of all that exists we are possibly the most complex, most improbable of all. But that's not it. There is something beautiful in my opinion about accepting this and facing infinity with an eagerness, and joy and to do so with hope, respect and dignity. That is not meaningless. Far from it. If anything it surely gives meaning to everything. We are in the most privileged position to either be the best or the worst or somewhere inbetween of what this universe has to offer.
Bloody awesome I reckon.
To infinity and beyond.
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one of the yr5 girls came running up to me at school this morning and she said 'its not fair that the worlds goin to end at 4 oclock...i finally saved up enough for a new ipod and im buying it at 3.30'...all i did was laugh and tell her she will get to enjoy her ipod...
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