Just a thought:  maybe begin with 'It came to me with a big bang / how much
thinking...'  I liked the title.
Nancy

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Sent: Monday, 11 November, 2002 3:44 PM
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Subject: New sub Bang!


Having decided that the meaning of life is too big a morsel to chew
comfortably, in this piece I restrict myself to the origins of the universe.


Bang!

It came to me in a blinding flash
like the Big Bang,
how much thinking is like creating the universe.
How scientists say that matter and energy
and even time only came into existence with the Bang
and how the infant universe created
time and space as it expanded,
just like a thought that moves
through ideas and events and figures,
creating them as it goes.
And how nothing cannot exist.
Not only is a vacuum impossible
in nature, but even in theory,
so the universe before time and matter
must be like an idea before it was thought.

And then it came to me in a blinding flash,
how one way to think of the universe
is to think of it as a thought,
and how before the thought was made
there was nothing, not even absence
and only with the thought came
all the other points of reference,
time and place and events and their horizons.
Like when you´ve worked an idea out
and put it down on paper
and stand back, and it´s all there,
occupying its own space on the page
with all the lines expanding
and the words spinning like planets.

And how much our universe is like that,
just a thought that someone has had.