Some people say from the mind of God . . .

BY DARNABY DEVITT

Some people say from the mind of God.  That’s how life began, from the mind of God. Scientists say there was a big bang, an explosion.  An explosion that started the whole universe.  Sending fireballs off in all directions.  One of those fireballs was our sun, and another one of those fireballs, a much smaller one, was our earth. But that’s not to say the fireballs couldn’t have come from the mind of God.

Who can say?  How can anybody say with certainty that they know what was going on before time and matter began?  All we know is that our sun keeps moving out from somewhere, going someplace else, and that the earth goes around it as it travels through space and time. At some point it will probably slow down, lose its fire and drift aimlessly. At some point a black hole will probably suck it into its vortex, and our whole solar system will be compressed into intensely dense matter—matter so intense and so dense that it might have to explode.  And the whole thing could start all over again.

The earth is still spinning from the last explosion, but it seems to be slowing down.  When people are living underground, without sun or a notion of time, they begin to live on a 23.5 hour day cycle.

That seems to suggest that for most of our genetic memory a day was 23.5 hours long.  Only recently (in the last 30 to 40,000 years?) has the time of a day become 24 hours. Like a spinning top that is starting to slow down, the earth begins to wobble before it finally comes to a complete stop.  The gravitational pull of the sun helps regulate the wobbling, and that could help regulate the seasons for another million years, but eventually the wobbling will stop.

The earth will stop spinning, and the core of the earth, the molten memento of our fiery origin, will cool.  By that time the sun may have started to cool and a crust may form on its surface.  Maybe human life could survive on the surface of the sun.  Of course there wouldn’t be any sunrises or sunsets, unless our sun began to orbit around a larger, younger sun.  Maybe that’s where we’re headed.  Maybe our sun is already orbiting the next new center of our universe, and we just don’t recognize it.  Maybe we’re already beginning our next reincarnation.