So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a single omnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history has had the stomach for such a belief.
A]nd both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.
I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me. <3
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There was a tear running down his cheek. It seemed like a river in the light of the setting sun.
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Our universe may have been born from a bounce in a prior phase, passing
through an intermediate phase in which there was neither space nor time.
The fate of galaxies depends upon the fate of the Universe. There are three basic scenarios to be considered, and although theorists have come up with many variations on the basic themes these subtleties do not significantly alter the three possibilities for the fate of galaxies. The first possibility is that the Universe will keep expanding in more or less the same way as today, with a steady acceleration. The statistics of observations available today favour this possibility, but not decisively enough to rule out the two other options. The second possibility is that the acceleration of the expansion rate will itself accelerate. The third is that the acceleration will switch over into a deceleration at some point in the not too distant future and the Universe will eventually collapse into a Big Crunch that is the time-reversed version of the Big Bang.
All these scenarios are speculative, and when we look at the timescales involved there is no point in talking in anything but round numbers, so we start with the present age of the Universe rounded off to 10 billion (1010) years as a benchmark. Also, we know so little about the nature of dark matter that it is difficult even to speculate about what might happen to it in the distant future, so I shall concentrate on the fate of baryons, the familiar particles that we ourselves are made of.
The general theory of relativity is the best theory we have to describe the overall behaviour of space, time and matter. As Einstein realized from the outset, this means that it automatically provides a description of the Universe, which is the sum total of all the space, time and matter. The trouble is, it provides descriptions of many universes.