-Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness
Wonder how life was without concept of time was invented by human. Was eternity understood by someone at that moment? Maybe eternity wasn't that far for primitive human minds... maybe some thought it would be eternity after surviving few days and night. When time got invented by human mind, eternity was murdered. The concept of eternity became something that is something that will never be achieved. However, maybe there is eternity and that is simply just ignored? Internal time flows differently for not only different people but also for different occasions.
How long is eternity? Is this is a span of time that ends after countless of hours of boredom and nothingness or is it time when we lose all our limitations and starts seeing things as they are and engulf in perpetual momentum... If we observe a falling leaf, it has a mathematical infinite possible soon to come future outcomes. Leaf may tilt to right by such and such way, to left such and such way. Although the leaf is about to fall off and rot in coming days, at that exact moment before hitting the ground, it experiences a spectra of infinite choices. Thousands of possible near futures and past chain events colliding to create a perpetual moment of everything and nothing. When we face a decision, we think of possible actions. Pessimists only see only few possible future, a dreamer sees an infinite possible future. All in all, the beauty of eternity lies in exact moment before the phenomenon occurs. It contains absolutely everything and yet nothing but one possible soon to occur event.
More interestingly, It may seem B caused A but in reality it is more like A, X,C.....V etc caused B. Certain phenomenon's are caused by uncountable number of causes. If we try to explain me writing this post then we have to explain entire history of the universe. And interesting fact is that 99.99% of it will not be related with me and whatever happened in past 2000 years. 99.99% will be about how the planet was formed, how species originated and how first human kinds victoriously hunted their dinner. Irrelevant, yes, but out entire action is based on infinite causes that stretches back to who knows how long. This creates the eternity and we are the part of eternity. The phenomenon that is about to happen endured billions of years. Imagine how we impatiently waits for 3 minutes for cup ramen to get ready when we are really hungry and craving for it. Multiply the 3 min wait by infinite. After waiting for eternity, it finally occurred and It sets a path for next event to occur. Gravitational force between the next event and previous event must be the force of loneliness of those events that waited for eternity. The momentum is set a long ago. How it was set is unknown. Maybe gravitational force or just a mistake or it just happened because it happened. How far it should go depends on how long the eternity is. But if we trace the certain near future event then it seems the first mover of that event will stretch way back to big bang. There are billions of events (if we bound our timeline by big bang, otherwise it could be infinite event) that happened in between and some events may happened spontaneously and some events may happened deliberately (if we assume we have free will, otherwise everything was either spontaneous or planned beforehand). Leaf falls, sun shines, rain droplet falls on the window and wind blows the curtain... And it has the momentum of eternity ,....and the same momentum goes on and on. Our each moment contains eternity in a way , just like how our bodies contain part of cosmic. (cosmic dust)
Metaphysical milkshakes and Starry nights. Maybe the eternity isn't that long after all.
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And here is a video of making coffee in mid-air by colliding it with water droplets that are levitated with acoustophoresis.
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