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Life. Tesla. Origin.
The probability of a brain spontaneously appearing in space is much higher than our universe appearing through cosmic inflation. This is called the Boltzmann brain paradox. After the man who gave us the entropy equation.
However improbable, the cosmic inflation theory is a beautiful explanation to how the universe came to be. It is much like the story of creation, just more detailed and of course, it took a lot more time.
However, in God’s defense, we do live a lot shorter now than we used to, so who knows how long a day was to him during the creation of it all.
Whatever your beliefs about science or religion, or magic for that matter, one thing is for certain. You are here.
Back in the year 1999, I wrote a philosophical hypothesis about the beginning of the universe. It was called Potential. For, as far as I could figure, and that was a long way back then, the only energy that could always exist was pure potential energy. Like that of thought or ideas.
Because potential is a legitimate form of energy, it should also be able to be transformed.
I still think the example of thought and idea is a beautiful way to describe initial energy, especially of the divine. Who is to say if our ideas are formed in the tissue of the brain or in the…