My Religion

Look at this picture. You can see clouds and above them, the moon. Then above that, you can see Jupiter. It may be hard to see, but this picture represents pretty much my entire religious beliefs.

First, the reason you can see this picture in the first place is because of the color film it was taken with. The silver halide are incredibly light-sensitive. Then for the light (which passes through the glass lens). The light is made in a star, from Hydrogen fusion. It takes hundreds of thousands of years just to leave the star, then minutes to reach the Earth, Moon and Jupiter. The reason we can see those is because they reflect the light. And then there's the atmospheric diffraction that causes us to see the different colors of light in the sunset. Then you have the atmosphere, composed of Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Carbon Dioxide, and throw in a bit of water to create the clouds and the other stuff.

And then, why is the moon there? Gravity and motion, physics, chemistry, biology. The whole universe is a system of balances and imbalances, spinning into the future. And then what is the future? What is time? What is space-time?

What is this existence and what is this universe?

That question is my religion. I look at the world around me and I am amazed by all the things that I see. I am amazed that silver halide crystals react to light, I am amazed that plants go through photosynthesis, I am amazed that Jupiter and our star are both giant balls of gas, I am amazed that rocks fall when you throw them in the air, I am amazed that I myself have the power to ponder these things. This universe is full of amazing things.........................

...............................And so many more amazing things waiting to be discovered.


That is my religion.