Some thoughts

"Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way."
                                                                                         -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. 

The Beatles - Across the Universe (My Favorite Beatles Song)

John Lennon got the idea to write this song when he heard phrase "words are flowing out like endless rain into paper cup" from his first wife Cynthia while talking about something. Shortly after that while in bed, Lennon kept hearing the phrase "flowing like an endless stream" again and again. This led him to write this cosmic song. According to Lennon, this is his best, most poetic lyric he ever wrote. The line Kay Guru Deva Om is in Sanskrit and it means glory to the shining remover of darkness. Oh and Fiona Apple's cover of this song is also very good. Enjoy!

Words are flowing out like 

Endless rain into a paper cup

They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy

Are drifting through my opened mind

Possessing and caressing me.

Jai Guru Deva. Om

Nothing's gonna change my world x4

Images of broken light, which 
Dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on across the universe.
Thoughts meander like a 
Restless wind inside a letter box
They tumble blindly as they make their way across the universe.

Jai Guru Deva. Om
Nothing's gonna change my world x4

Sounds of laughter, shades of life

Are ringing through my opened ears 

Inciting and inviting me.

Limitless undying love, which

Shines around me like a million suns,

It calls me on and on across the universe

Jai Guru Deva.

Nothing's gonna change my world x4

The Universe and Us

"...The tiny space I occupy is so small compared to the rest of space, where I am not and where things have nothing to do with me; and the amount of time in which I get to live my life is so insignificant compared to eternity, where I've never been and won't ever be... Yet in this atom, this mathematical point blood circulates, a brain functions and desires something as well... How absurd! What nonsense!.."       -Bazarov from Turgenev's novel Fathers and Children    

This video shows how insignificant and small we are compared to only the known part of the universe. Our day to day problems and our mundane daily routines are simply nothing.... but then again we have to continue living. The universe is so vast and complex for us to comprehend. There are many reasons to live...succeeding and leaving your mark in this small planet earth...helping others...eating foods....making difference...changing the world....etc etc etc etc etc etc and it is impossible to say which one of the reasons of living is the correct one. Maybe religion could give some answer... but if you are not strict religious then definition of meaning of life has to come from within us. In my view, we define our existence, we make goals and we strive for it. And that makes our lives interesting to live and that makes us to exist in this world. Like Bazarov said (quote at the beginning), we are insignificant but our functioning brain desires something. Those desires and experiences, gives one chance to create his own meaning. (Ex: a kid liked to play soccer and really enjoyed it. He defined his goal to become the best soccer player and starts working hard to fulfill his goal) And of course it doesn't have to be one big goal and it doesn't have to be a firm unchangeable goal, person's taste, desires and goals can change overtime. And that and that and that.... still it may seem pointless in the long run. What is the point of fulfilling our goal if we were to wither away and be forgotten after a century or two? The good thing is all of us will wither away in the long run, so you are not the only one. The bad thing is, it is true that we will all wither away. Even the greatest scientists, leaders and any person of consenquence will become insignificant after couple of centuries... no fame is eternal. The only solution to get rid of this problem is to accept that nothing is eternal and try to live. Set goals and dreams and try to fulfill. If you succeed then you can be proud of living meaningful live following your dreams and fulfilling your goals; and even if you fail, you can be proud of living the life you wanted to live and did what you wanted to do. People may debate here and there about this issue but let's save that debate for another day.

And now some thoughts about the universe. Let's assume after some years we have solved all global poverty, inequality problem and became truly globally peaceful civilization. (truly a utopia, no violance and let's assume that there is machine that can give us anything that we want, so all people became equally rich. We have abundance of everything and we can cure every disease..... let's just go with this conditions for a bit) Then what will be our goal of living? It seems to me in that case, there will be only three goals. One is to just enjoy ourselves and become hedonistic. Second option is to pursue artistic career and write poems, songs, direct movies, design things etc etc. Third option is to pursue scientific curiosity. The last option is the most appealing choice for me. Discovering why we exist and what caused our existence will be the big question to solve. You may ask what will be point of knowing all of that? The answer will be of course that is the point. Well, if our universe is part of other big universe then so be it. If our universe was created out of just randomness then so be it. If our universe was made by some great being then so be it. The point is to find out the answer and depending on the answer we can continue to pursue further. But what will be our next move if we finish finding all the answers for everything? I think then we may have finished this game. Just like any free roam RPG video game, you have finished every quest, got every achievement,collected all items and you beat all bosses. Now your video game character can just roam around the game for no purpose or repeat certain quests again and again that you have already finished or just exist the game.