Dec 09, 2008 14:44
we are born of circles it seems.
if we assume that the big bang is relatively well documented enough, we can imagine the universe expanding from a single dot to form a spherical "space". note that this is a stupid assumption as nothing "exists" "outside" of the universe but just bear with me. the universe is probably relatively spherical.
the powers that be demanded that mass fall in love with mass. at first this meant that stuff gathered together in large clouds, "just chillin", but soon, Hydrogen molecules began to fall in love. from there large objects began to form, as early hydrogen molecules fell in love with eachother and decided to finally put a down payment on that nice flat in the core of a star. happily burning eachother up in a plasma furnace, and emitting tons of light/heat.
other masses began to notice the hype and started orbiting these crazy stars. that was after all the stars had gotten together and started orbiting a central mass of denser star concentrations.
the consequences were of galactic proportions: galaxies!!! big round whirlpools of potential.
within these galaxies, denser matter, like iron, started forming huge spheres of gravitational love. one such of these spheres had a good deal of water in it, as well as a lovely assortment of nitrogen. soon, phospholipids were forming spherical membranes, which began to develop complex concentration gradient mechanisms ("cells"). once those dudes realized the power in numbers, nutty organisms like, well, all kinds of stuff. especially when they looked up at the bright disk in the sky and went "hey, unlimited power output!". another circle, that of the earth's rotation, affected these bold newcomers, but they invented sleep.
once they got smart enough, they moved up from the temperate equator, where circles are even more important, namely those associated with the tilt of our very own earth; seasonal cycles. you had to be hella smart to chill in a place where half the time it's just frigid and half the time (sometimes less!) it's passably warm. complex adaptations and dormancy periods emerged.
once we started taking full advantage of our resources, stuff went fast as fast can be. bones came about, and before you knew it stuff grew legs, wings, tails, hands, fingers, little bones that vibrated when we heard stuff, all kinds of insane junk
and here we are today, coming from a single round cell, from a rounded womb, out of a round belly into a round room. living life round morning, falling in love round noon, growing up in the evening, dying in a square tomb.