(13) A Reflection Consistent: The Meaning by Our Actions in Purpose of the Existence of Life

The following observation is of a reflection and may seem metaphorical, presumptuous and arrogant, and purely philosophical. But we must be confident in what we see and can validate with measure because that confidence gained from validated observation does not fail us. That assurance most often drives us and leads to truths as theories we can confidently call facts, most consistently.

It is not a coincidence that as we observe ever so closely inward at our biologic matter we can not help but to peer outward with equal enthusiasm at the seemingly astronomical. The rate of our discovery is paralleled by reflection of our motions.

We should acknowledge that the process of evolution we have discovered here on Earth is also reflected at us from space. The universe’s matter and energy and us, at first our success rates very slow in small numbers, our pairing is infrequent but when it happens it is spectacular.

The first and largest stars in the universe, in their massiveness and in their deaths have crushed themselves into massive black-holes and some continue toward this result still today. They conquered their local space and became the center of gravitational attention for solar systems and stars by the millions to many billions. They spiral seemingly in control, successful, proud, ominous in influence in their space. These galaxies drift at speeds incomprehensible, moving toward the others and the outlying galaxies moving ever farther away. A hierarchy of weaker physics against stronger. And we see now that the outlying galaxies, nearly as old as the universe itself, have begun their acceleration towards their role in this universe’s ending. A weak point will be exploited, as it is, the attraction motivated by the osmosis of matter and energy into a space, void of this mass, will bring all galaxies together, toward a tremendous transformation.

Image below: The Interactive Hubble Tuning Fork . From The European Space Agency (link at bottom of page).

Known and categorically identified galaxies as now seen  by the Hubble and Kepler telescopes.

One computer model of the known universe.  

Tremendous walls of galaxies. Great clusters of galaxies of an almost incalculable number -  because we can not see them all.

In the early universe there were transformations lasting billions of years. As does the universe so do we do as in colonies across from our parallel reflections we wait, hotter and more unstable in our distant past but later we are cooler and more able to function for longer periods of vast cosmic time. This later state is the environment we react to and we adapt well to.

That is the environment we collided with and penetrated into. In the violence we are born, the new from old and it continues. Chance encounters they were not. Miraculous it was and is definitely not. They were inevitable by sheer numbers of a large variety of matter having all the time in the universe to confront, to collide, to die and transform.

Then change is slow. Its measurements in billions and hundred of millions of years. Motivated by the physical, in long periods of time each physical realm of nature, then in large numbers, our expansion is exponential and almost always catastrophic in our relative scales of size of weight.

The stars are the reflection of our lives from the direction of space. The stars are a species and within them they have a genus and a family. Behind them in their past there are races of stars of origins distant. They multiply differently and they transform with similar but different process. They will one day be classified as created in astrophysical order of time, of category.

We should see they appear to us as very segregated, separated as we too often perceive that separation in our extremely local position in space that nature around us is also. In biology, in astrophysics, to not be diverse and multiply so, would be unproductive toward the purpose. They like us, are never truly self-reliant. We exploit each other’s proximity and our energy, our lives. We entice each other toward reproduction and transformation with what we have, all of nature.

Perhaps the universe needs intelligent life? Perhaps we are the micro matter essential in its ending, not really its beginning? Because its ending is always a new beginning, as a transformation. As we do.

I do not discount that evidence we see now is not of more than one universe. That there will one day be a number. Of distinct universes, and a number of ancestral universes behind us, and that we are their legacy. That this universe has a measure of time so large as it parallels ours as almost immeasurably short by any of our ability to date.

Billions universes that are in scale like "tiny bubbles." Each undergoing a process of transformation.

In the universe its primal purpose is expressed in a constant state of motion, as is our lives in the image of our reproduction. The universe’s actions in purpose are to transform and multiply. Its method is seen by its manner of division by collisions and penetrations, at the quantum and atomic, the micro and the macro levels of change. These are violent processes. If we only compared the universe’s transformation to our own as we are born and respond to our environment and then die, we would see how biologic matter reflects the violence of the astronomical.

Both forms of known matter are using the explosions and collisions and penetrations of the elements of life, onto planetary bodies and onto biologic eggs.

Both transform energy to propagate and continue to transform towards their ends together always.

The Beginning - The Ironic Moral of this Story

Just look - at how similar the author is to these life forms in the garden - amazing!:

James Gray Mason with Orange Beings.

June, 2016

A bit morbid but worth the thought:

If we do not cremate. A video description of how we transform and contribute our primary purpose even in (and especially) death:

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