A cheese sandwich, then. Gorgonzola, have you?

And now, number one. The LARCH ... The LARCH.

Something that destroys creates? How dare the universe do that. Its evil just like the president. We must protest this act of the big bang. This planet was created by destruction.What good can come from that?
Its like the Iraq war, we can't do nothing violent to achieve good results for all..... Blah blah blah.just a thought for knucklehead conspiracy theorists out their.
As in the Big Bang created the Univers-
Therefore the Big Bombs over Baghdad can create democracy.
Destruction makes beutiful things it seems.

Overuse of the word "unimaginably"

man, king kong. you are incredibly insightful. i remember in physics class where we had a whole section talking about how politics is JUST like physical science, and yet i still couldn't come up with that analogy.

Technically, the "Big Bang", while in a very narrow sense an "explosion", that is, a violent outward expansion of matter and energy, didn't "destroy" anything; quite the opposite in fact. Every particle of matter and every erg of energy in the universe was CREATED as a result of the "Big Bang". So KK, your analogy, while clever, is also completely incorrect.

My Friday

I woke up feeling sad. My last day. I packed my bags. I drank some tea. I watched some television.

On the outside, I listened to the construction work, the steady beat. A street light flickered. Passing over the freeway, I noticed that a lane was shut down. For no obvious reason. I thought, seriously, "is this the last day of earth?" But I am so hungry.

Am I the only one that finds Charles' posts absurdly random?

I'm hungover.

It's Friday. It's Bloomsday. What more does one need by way of excuse for a day of absolute excess.

"Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space..."

Mike in MO, you only find Charles' posts absurdly random because you (and the rest of us) inhabit a parallel universe to the one inside of Charles' head. Don't try to make sense of it. Just enjoy.

Sorry to be this way, but where did the original bit of extremely dense hot matter come from? Ultimately, from abstraction--an equation. Something with an infinte exponent, ripping itself apart, spraying shrapnel of primes, radiating irrationals, bloated whole numbers twisting into impossible geometries before cooling into the loveable dumplings we poke our counting fingers into. But poke too far beneath the crust and you'll burn yourself on the hot anarchy in the yummy center. As the philosopher William Idol said: "there is nothing sure in this world/ there is nothing pure in this world."