What are you curious about?
Today’s prompt asks what I’m curious about. The articles I always click on in the news deal with the makeup of the universe. Discovery of black holes, exoplanets, other physical manifestations of the cosmos—these intrigue me. I’ve always wondered if humans have some sort of knowledge of everything that transcends time, like Jung’s collective unconscious, and some future revelation about stars and dark matter somehow translated into the past as angels and demons.
The idea of life on other planets is something else I’m very curious about. Mathematically, it seems highly improbable that life as we know it only appeared on Earth. Logically, there must be other life “out there.” What form it takes, what stage of development they’re in, whether they’ve visited us (or are visiting, or even living among, us) are further causes of curiosity.
Speaking of mathematics, I’m always flabbergasted when scientists prove something solely through calculations. “Of course there is a multiverse, an infinite number of universes, where variations of us and our actions exist! The Math proves it!” But, first of all, I’m in this universe, and the woulda-shoulda-coulda mindset of, “But maybe in another universe I did better!” is counter-productive. And really, doesn’t the math just prove the math? As a construct of the human mind, to find an abstract way to prove something—is that really proof in reality of reality?
These questions, and how to translate them into workable screenplays, are also a major curiosity.
As for metaphysics, I see that as a way of understanding the physical working of the universe. There are, as Hamlet said, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. How physics and metaphysics may be entwined (on a quantum level?) might prove most interesting of all.
And maybe I could get Christopher Nolan to read that screenplay!
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