Chapter 1:The Big Bang

First of all, this book is not about the Big Bang, astronomy, any particular science or academic subjects. You will find subject matter that has been studied academically, and scientists and scholars play a large role in this book.

Beginning with the Big Bang seems an awfully good place to start, though remote from today, which is also a good place to start. Perhaps this is the ultimate way to overcome writer's block. Start with the Big Bang, or Revelations if you believe that to be literal, or start with today - or both.

First off, I will not debate Creationism and reject it as literal truth. I told you this would be from my perspective.

I will start with today and the Big Bang, I will argue for the moment, and this will be a thread throughout the book that the Big Bang and today are an inseparable present.

We start with a singularity, an ultimate unity - an ultimate binary translation from nothing to one thing. We shall say that this one becomes all things. We shall say the linear measurement of time as one thing after another is layered by a phenomenon of time as always being here never separated. We shall say that the centre of the universe is everywhere. We shall argue that mathematically time is continuous, divisions of time being aspects of the mind.

Today, each particle of every existing thing emanates from singularity. Each has uniqueness, yet each has category.

Plato said that Forms were eternal and unchaning and these represented the true reality, illusion was in that which was impermanent. Heraclitus said that you can't step into the same stream twice, that what was permanent was change.

I shall say that the universe is as wine pouring into a glass. The glass represents those Forms, those immutable structural laws of the universe. The pouring wine is Heraclitus' flow, and this wine is always being poured, it is being poured now for you. It takes an overall shape, but is always in flux, where each particle lands up has randomness, and in the case of people, as an aspect of free will.

This book is not entirely philosophical. There is time to throw the glass into the fire, to make love by the flames and to sleep.

Good night. Sweet Dreams.

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