H2O?

I know from my study of geology that the most predominant element in the known universe is carbon. That diamond engagement ring - carbon. In a tetra-hedron joining of electrons and neutrons, protons, and all the little bitty pieces I don't know about (except for their existence, I do know about that)...

If energy cannot be created or destroyed, and if an event horizon can bend matter in ways unheard of - where does that leave us? Us, as humans; conscious matter? When a person dies, and their body is laid to rest - let’s say in a raw wooden coffin, with no preservatives applied, it rots in the ground. Yes, no? And eventually, like compost, will feed the dirt that grows the grass that gives off the oxygen. Right? But, considering we are carbon based life forms, made up - what is it, 80% water - is that what makes the grass grow. Grass still needs the seed, and the sun, and the rain (H20 in an ideal world, granted our rain might have a couple other compunds in it...) -

If energy cannot be created or destroyed... If we and every piece of "matter" are made up of atoms, which are made up of neutrons, electrons and protons- swirling around each other in an orbit not unlike that of our solar system, than doesn't matter therefore not exist? Gas, liquid, solid - all are composed of atoms, granted involved in their love trysts with other atoms, bonding (in 3 different motifs - each more powerful than the first) - so then what is yogurt? Liquid? Not so much. Solid? Nah-uh. Gas - well, I don't know what your problems are, but not for me...

The point is how many pennies can you fit in a container roughly the size of a grapefruit?

How many thoughts can you fit in a brain?

The brain works through chemical synapses... So therefore is a thought matter? Of course not. Is matter matter, for that matter? No, matter is densely structured energy. Electricity, the same thing that makes light bulbs light, the same thing that cannot be created or destroyed. The same thing that exists on the same plane as our so called "matter" - "matter" = solids (from our bodies, to this keyboard, to my dog and your car...)

So what's it all about then? The fact is - even in the garden of life, I [death] exist. Even in the garden of death, death isn't possible. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. From this keyboard, to this thought - there is no difference. Everything is perfect as it is. Perfectly as it should be. To remove me - like so much a blip from blipland - would cause the collapse of everything.

We (table, zebra and Siobhan) are interdependent on each other to exist.

This is the infinite finite - enjoy. For in that fact alone you can do no wrong.

S.