John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
– John 1:1

Language.

In the beginning was the word.

I feel this represents the dawn of recorded history, before then we never asked what came before, what was over that hill, where did we come from, all these questions involve language.

Without words, we could not record our past; language is the crucial invention that allows you to comprehend this and so many other aspects of human society.

We view our past through the filter of language, we learn our past and plan for our future with language, when it comes to personal history, and the history of our people, all our most detailed history is recorded in language, history is passed down with words.

But words are not the only way we communicate; on this planet; before the language was the emotion, love, and anything from out there that spoke to our species or any, should learn the language of feeling first.

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

“All that you touch and all that you see, all that you taste, all you feel”

Eclipse, Pink Floyd

Subjective reality is where we all live.

Each individuals unique view of reality, processing information one brain at a time; the shared subjective experience, shared when we communicate, helps us to get closer to objective reality, helps us to determine what is true and what is not; it is subjective experience that determines good from bad, pain from pleasure.

Through sharing that subjective, we come up with collective beliefs and objective truth; the subjective account of an experiment, when shared with another scientist leads to increasing.

The Greek Goddess Iris, grand-daughter of Nyx, is said to be the messenger of the Gods, and now we use the word Iris to refer to a part of the eye, one thinks of rainbows and the spectrum of colour, they said Gods messages were visual, perhaps subjective and unique.

Nietzsche said that to see with the eyes of 100 men would be objective reality, that would be closer to objective experience of what it is to be a human male, but we would still not be closer to objective truth.

Neuron pulses

We don’t know what was before the big bang.

Perhaps the collapse of a previous universe followed by the moment of creation of this universe; maybe absolutely nothing, no energy, no time, simply the potential to exist; Gods will; other realities; we have no confirmed evidence, nor even a way of checking, what existed prior to the moment of the big bang.

All hypothesis’s lack evidence, but we would love to learn.

I have one answer; to allow sentience to exist.

Only while there is self-awareness is there any meaning and truth to anything.

The evidence in favour is that through our existance, reality chose life.

William Ockham

The intent of science is to take the hypothesis that best fits the observations, until an explanation that makes more sense is found.

Science is not yet, and may never be complete, we build upon repeatable experiments, we take a hypothesis and we test that hypothesis, via an experiment designed to either validate or invalidate the hypothesis, if the experiment seems to state that the hypothesis is correct.

Finding out the truth about reality is best done with a critical mind, logical analysis of the available evidence, a simple step by step deductive process. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of “Sherlock Holmes” is famous for the quote “Eliminate the impossible, and what you have left, however improbable…”

Occams Razor means that “when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.”

Andromeda Galaxy

In an expanding and aging universe over ninety billion light years wide, and over thirteen billion years old (according to NASA), all our reference points start at Earth.

Once, all roads led to Rome, and, I assume, all map makers plotted based on where Rome was, before we knew the world was round, before we knew the America’s existed, back then Rome was the center of the Earth.

We plot coordinates based on our location, we map other things by their relationship to where we stand, from the point of view of modern astronomy, Earth is literally the center of the universe.

The old words (reference) said that once; and were later proven to be false; Galileo’s invention of the telescope and his discoveries with regards to the refraction and amplification of light changed that forever, the orbits of planets were plotted, we realised that the earth orbits the sun; and the sun was but one star amongst myriads.

Location is always relative to the location of the person asking; the only constant is in time, that the rate of expansion of our universe suggests that our universe is probably just over thirteen billion years old, but as for our reality, that we do not know.

Subset data, a house is often in a village, a village in a region, a region in a country, a country on a planet, a planet in a solar system, a solar system in a galaxy, a galaxy in a universe. Does it stop there?