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Of Nothingness

eric mccarty
2 min readNov 25, 2021

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Of Nothingness — Poetry — Science — Headless Now

Of Nothingness:

of nothingness and now expansion, that once a singularity existed containing the potential for universal design, having all of space-time, and mass within its hold. Physicist describe this as a gravitational singularity of infinite density and that quantum fluctuations gave cause for its rapid expansion, an explosion and what we know as the Big Bang. This is our origin story, how the universe came to be. Of course there are theories of what, if anything, existed just before this singularity, as it seems that even without the existence of space-time, that every beginning has a moment just before,

mostly, when we think of nothingness, it isn’t absolute, we imagine some sort of emptiness, a void that simply has no objects in its hold. It’s hard for us to conceive of space not yet existing, a nothingness so absolute that we have no concept to compare, and it’s from this that even emptiness has emerged.

and what’s amazing, is that right now we are living through this expansion, the Big bang still continued onward, and that we are part of its display, pieces belonging to a cosmic rush without an end result in mind. This is an expansion that doesn’t have an edge, it doesn’t reach a border and then carry on, but it’s simply a continuation of itself, fulfilling its own design through the infinite reach of its motion.

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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