The first law of thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, in essence, energy can be converted from one form into another. Thinking about our thoughts and ideas being a way of energy may disclose that our consciousness may wander around the everything perpetually. This conundrum has existed since antiquity whether among the gracious lines of art or the magnificence of science.
Restlessness came to me after a reading day when in Tolkien’s Silmarillion music and creation where mentioned: “In this music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the world was begun; for Ilúvatar made visible the song of the Ainur, and they beheld it as a light in the darkness”. Music as a combination of sounds. Sound as a vibration. Vibration as a string. Thus, there was an outline of one of the most modern theories in physics: the string theory.
In a rather coarse summary, subatomic particles are actually vibrations of a string. If reality is conceived as the everything around us being shaped by strings then the universe is a combination of innumerable symphonies. It may be that in the imaginarium some memories are nothing else than ignored knowledge.
If consciousness is understood as an unceasingly present there is a possibility where each one of them is unique and irrepetible and another where it is a constant part of it all. A riddle that has been formulated far away from under the dim light of my desk. Stephen Hawking looked for a theory that could unify through a simple model of theories all the fundamental interactions of nature. Contemporaneously the author Jorge Luis Borges had barely caressed the surface of quantum physics with his short story “The Garden of Forking Paths” where the temporal labyrinth illustrates a way to think about the unthinkable infinity; all through the countless options for the consequences of a decision.
Recently, an event caught my mind and attention when I read about how the humpback whale research of Roger Payne influenced Carl Sagan's passion for these colossal mammals, leading a recording of this sea creature songs to become an important content of Voyager I and II space probes. The fascination for music seems to live within many species that walk the Earth and in my rather small cosmogony, music is an essential tool for other types of life forms outside our Milky Way Galaxy.
There is a wondering that seems everlasting, the question to find out the truth about reality. Could be that the existence is certain in all kinds of forms and times, or we create reality as in a temporal maze where at some possibility a divergence is created and then reality is yet another.