But Nothing Knew Not Fear

And in the beginning, there was nothing.
And in the nothing, was the potential for everything.

And then suddenly the nothing became Everything,
which included the memory of nothing.

And so Everything knew Nothing.
And Everything feared Nothing.
But Nothing knew not fear.

And Everything knew not what to do
about its fear of Nothing.

But then Everything had an idea.
The idea was to forget about Nothing,

This should not have been difficult.
Everything was a veritable kaleidoscope
of moving matter and energy.
And so, Everything forgot Nothing,
by experiencing every thing.
And tried to know itself.

But Nothing never stayed away for long.
And so Everything understood Time,
as the recurrent memory of Nothing,
and how it became Everything.
And how everything changes.

In its attempts to forget Nothing,
Everything tried many diversions.
Metamorphosis into more and more
complicated forms, spread further and further apart.

And Every Thing became lonely.
And sought other Things.
And so part of Everything became Gravity.

And so things gathered together.
And eventually, particles became stars
and stars attracted planets
and planets sprouted life forms
and it was very interesting.
Everything was surprised.

And Everything almost forgot the
mystery of how nothing became Everything.

Watching the life forms emerge and diverge
was very surprising. Even delightful.
But then again, the sparkle dulled.
It was routine. A beautiful routine, but a routine.

And so Everything decided to renew exploration.
The frog was experiment 1.0.
It was a good experiment.

And dinosaurs and birds and shrews
and mice and wolves and elephants
walked the earth.

And Time passed. And things settled down.
And Everything noticed that nothing new was happening.
And was reminded of Nothing.
And decided to spice things up.

The photo at the top is of the ball joint that lets a bumblebee move its antenna around. Image obtained using a scanning electron microscope.