Phantom senses run through my very nerves, touches of the unborn universe, visions of patterns and darker-than-black shadows fill my periphery.

The warmth within my body feels as if burning.

The void of information, sending signals of unbelievable cold on my skin.

Piercing screaches that echo in the only place that exists past my body, my mind.

Shutting my eyes... no difference, but a pain from b...

A befuddling abstraction: life before the Big Bang.

Try this…

Imagine a silent void where neither time nor space exists. Nothing. No short-lived elementary particles. No waves of light.

Not. A. Single. Quark.

Struggling?

The very idea is absurd, to conceptualise nothingness, because nothingness in itself is self-contradictory. To think of nothing is to think of something.

Fine.

Perhaps ...

As I stepped onto my time travel panel, it suddenly started sparking and boomed with a flash of light and deep thunder like sound. As I opened my eyes, saw nothing. Nothing except total white. There’s no sound, not darkness, nothing to feel, smell taste, nothing. No gravity either. I just floated around aimlessly, no form of communication and even if I had a radio or phone, there’s no signal to bo...

"We did it!" Jeremy said excitedly, stepping back from their brand new Time Caspule 3000™️ "we've accomplished time travel."

"You know where we need to go first, right?" Zach queried, "we need to go back in time to before the universe was created and find out once and for all if it was created by a God or gods, or if the atheists were right."

"You still believe in a supreme being?" Jack asked sk...

Darkness is all there is.. All I know. All we hear. All they see. Light is a myth and it’s void is so tangible that we can feel the welcomed escape in our marrow. We wait for our eyes to burn from the unfamiliar glow. Escape from this unending pit of nothing. Dark is not a color, a shade.. when it has been one’s whole existence.. it is a state of being. The longing for light echos throughout etern...

I think about this sometimes.

When I try to trace my origins back

Deep intro he recesses if my brain.

I go back farther and farther, trying to find an anchor to connect to,

So much so that I float up and out of myself. Out into the ether, up above the earth

Into the stars.

Just observing. Taking in the lives below me.

Disconnected.

But what about before this space?

Before the great blue marble and...

Ding dong like a doorbell,

A sudden jolt of music,

It ends swift and lovely,

And soon things begin

Slish splosh like a paint brush,

Across a void of black,

Little rocks become planets

And just as soon break apart

Bash bang like rocks colliding,

A new world is made,

A chunk comes and thus comes the moon

And life begins to splatter

Drip drop like asteroids bringing water,

And life beginning to...

Where did life go wrong? On a personal level, the answer stares back at me in the mirror every morning as I get ready. But what about on a macro, universal level? I’m sure that it’s far too complicated to succinctly answer with any semblance of certainty. In fact, it’s an unanswerable question that has plagued humanity for eons. Why are any of us here, and why is suffering such an integral part of...

Our whole universe

Was in a hot dense state

When nearly 14 billion years ago

Expansion started, wait

This isn’t the song I’m meant to sing

But I’m contemplating life and everything

The answer I know is 42

But I’ve been thinking that it might be you

Because

Amy Farrah Fowler

Bernadette Rostenkowski

Feels like everyone else is so happy

I just want someone to hold

Me when I’m feeling down

I know I s...

I sat in the corner nook of the cafe and opened my laptop to Google. What did I even want to type?

“Coffee?” The waitress walked up to the table with a fresh pot of brew. I grabbed one of the empty mugs on the table and held it up for her.

“Thank you.” I said smelling the delightfully earthy scent of the liquid as she filled my cup.

A gloved hand extended the second cup toward her. I looked ...