-black
-blue
-green
-white
Interestingly, the two opposites, black and white, have more in common with each other than any other two pairs from this short list. The beginning of the universe compared to common depictions of it form a similarly paradoxical contradiction situation:
- Common Big Bang depictions
-everything sneezed out of the nose of the Great Green Arkle-Seizure
- A god poofed it into existence
- A counter-intuitive and difficult to visualize opposite of the common Big Bang depictions
In this case, options 1 and 4 are paradoxically opposite yet most similar at the same time. The problem stems from the fact that the circumstances surrounding the beginnings of the universe are so dissimilar to every-day experience, so twisted 180 degrees opposite, that any explanation that WE can relate to is itself twisted away from reality. As a result, descriptions and depictions of the Big Bang are deceptive. Not because of any great conspiracy, but because of the great difficulty involved in communicating to the average person (i.e. everyone who grew up on earth, i.e. everyone) something that is completely removed from every life experience they have ever had, ever.
And so we see "artist's conceptions" on the Discovery Channel that first show us a black, empty screen. Then an explosion into that emptiness. Of course we also hear an intense blasting sound as this happens. The viewer is left thinking that all of creation blew out of a single point in the cosmos. But let me tell you something that should blow your mind. This depiction, to steal another HitchHikerism, is almost...but not entirely, unlike tea. er, reality. Unlike reality, however, in a way that is very similar to it. Like white is to Black, that Discovery Channel simulation is wrong in almost every way. It's kind of like switching most words of a phrase to it's opposite and then adding a bunch of negative conjunctions. compare this corny poem:
roses are red
violets are blue
sugar is sweet
and so are you
with:
roses are not green
violets are not orange
acid is bitter
unlike you
Opposite in detail, yet somehow they both say something very similar in the end. Thus is the reality of THE BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE! dun-dun-DUNNNNNN! The original poem is like the Discovery Channel illustration. Easy to follow and fun. Reality is like the second. They both end up with the same universe we live in, but one of them is an oversimplification that ends up twisting things around for the sake of making them easier to understand.
Comming soon, how the common depiction is wrong and what is right!
