Cycles of life.
We are temporary.
We're born, we live, we die.
We rot, and from our remains springs life anew.
Many generations come and go as the earth goes on hardly noticing.
Our home- the earth and the solar system- are temporary, too.
Suns are born, they live, and they die.
Their remains become the beginnings of new stars (and solar systems).
Many generations come and go as the galaxy goes on hardly noticing.
And the galaxies are temporary, too.
They're born, they live, and they die, too.
They're born from primordial dust & stars, and recycled dust & stars.
They live while watching uncounted generations of constituent stars live and die.
Finally, they die as their central black holes grow so large that they suck up all of their constituent stars and matter.
And the universe is temporary, too.
It's born, it lives, and it dies.
How it is born is unknown. (Big bang? Creation? Unknowable?)
How it dies is unclear.
Perhaps it's constituent black holes eventually find each other (through gravitational attraction).
They fall in together.
Do they become one single singularity?
And if so, is this the end of everything?
Or does the creation of a single singularity somehow mark a new beginning?
We can never know.
But it seems likely though, doesn’t it?
That if everything else is cyclic, that the universe is cyclic too?
We are temporary.
We're born, we live, we die.
We rot, and from our remains springs life anew.
Many generations come and go as the earth goes on hardly noticing.
Our home- the earth and the solar system- are temporary, too.
Suns are born, they live, and they die.
Their remains become the beginnings of new stars (and solar systems).
Many generations come and go as the galaxy goes on hardly noticing.
And the galaxies are temporary, too.
They're born, they live, and they die, too.
They're born from primordial dust & stars, and recycled dust & stars.
They live while watching uncounted generations of constituent stars live and die.
Finally, they die as their central black holes grow so large that they suck up all of their constituent stars and matter.
And the universe is temporary, too.
It's born, it lives, and it dies.
How it is born is unknown. (Big bang? Creation? Unknowable?)
How it dies is unclear.
Perhaps it's constituent black holes eventually find each other (through gravitational attraction).
They fall in together.
Do they become one single singularity?
And if so, is this the end of everything?
Or does the creation of a single singularity somehow mark a new beginning?
We can never know.
But it seems likely though, doesn’t it?
That if everything else is cyclic, that the universe is cyclic too?
