Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Life, the Universe and Everything

Do you ever push back the frame of "logic" or "rationality" (or maybe it's not even pushing it back, just opening it up) to ask yourself about the real nature of "life" on a grander scheme?

I was watching Cox explain that if one electron were in the room at the Royal Institution, the next nearest electron would be on the coast of France. and that given the size of electrons (and we won't even go into bozons and other ons) a molecule, or a cup of water would be likened to a galaxy or even a universe by comparison.

An electron could not even "see" a human, much less have any concept that said human is breathing, talking, walking, reproducing and all those things. Our sense of time, rather the scale on which we live our time, is fixed within a framework we can understand. minutes, days, years, centuries.

But in my stranger moments, I start to wonder if suns could be alive, if the galaxy or something that we can't even consider casue we are not in its same scope, could be alive, and we would never know it, cause their lifetime is billions of years, thier size, like a body to an atom.

I know it sounds stupid and/or waxing poetic, but I was reading the "what is life" section, and I really leaves me curious. Native Americans will tell you that rocks and mountains and the earth itself are alive, but cannot be conscious of us, because they do not live in the same scope. And now I think of things so small, they must "think" (mind you, they do not have brains, i know, i know) the universe they inhabit is reality.

There is a reason, i think, Carl Sagan choose to get stoned once and a while. sometimes you have to just step back and say, with every bit of mind blowing awe, "fuck".