I regret answering the call already, though I resist the urge to hang up. Maybe I should have, since I’m still driving. Bluetooth is the only reason we are able to talk right now.
“Listen,” I say. “Captain Blue and the Slick Serpent is duking it out again.”
“And?”
“And a whole city block was destroyed by the fighting! I had to take a 30-minute detour!”
“Don’t care.”
I groan in anger. This delivery isn’t worth it. At this point, I remember that I haven’t eaten lunch yet.
Once upon a time, there was no such thing as time.
Wait, no. There wasn't time, so scratch that intro.
There is no such thing as space. There is no such thing as time.
There's only energy. The energy doesn't have a place, per se, because there's no such thing as "place" without space. There's no space without a relationship between two or more things, and there aren't 2 or more things... there's just energy. That's all.
And then, for some reason nobody understands, there's space. Just the teensiest plank length of space, but there it is. And the energy doesn't fit in all that space, so it makes more space.
Watch not the clock
Or the day’s passing
Watch not the moon’s tide.
Watch rather the human heart
That place where passions live
Which burns.
Where light may,
Or may not penetrate
Prepare for the worst.
For the human heart
Is a mercurial thing
With its own way.
Go not close
Lest you are infected
Melted to nothing
But if you can,
Embrace
And be consumed
Title: Lunch Rush
“Hey Dasher, where’s my food?”
“I have a name, you know.”
“Whatever...”
I regret answering the call already, though I resist the urge to hang up. Maybe I should have, since I’m still driving. Bluetooth is the only reason we are able to talk right now.
“Listen,” I say. “Captain Blue and the Slick Serpent is duking it out again.”
“And?”
“And a whole city block was destroyed by the fighting! I had to take a 30-minute detour!”
“Don’t care.”
I groan in anger. This delivery isn’t worth it. At this point, I remember that I haven’t eaten lunch yet.
Once upon a time, there was no such thing as time.
Wait, no. There wasn't time, so scratch that intro.
There is no such thing as space. There is no such thing as time.
There's only energy. The energy doesn't have a place, per se, because there's no such thing as "place" without space. There's no space without a relationship between two or more things, and there aren't 2 or more things... there's just energy. That's all.
And then, for some reason nobody understands, there's space. Just the teensiest plank length of space, but there it is. And the energy doesn't fit in all that space, so it makes more space.
Time depends on space, so there's time, too.
The rest is Big History.