I like sequences.  One thing happens … and later another thing happens.  Are they connected?  Or is it just random?  Actually, how much of this life is in the realm of my understanding?

Physicist Bryan Cox had something to say about this:

I honestly think the wheels are coming off our picture of the way the universe works at the moment.  We don’t know what 96% of the universe is made of – that tells us that we don’t understand something fundamental.

And AI wants in on the conversation:

Most of the universe (about 96%) is made of mysterious substances (dark energy and dark matter) that we can’t see or fully understand, even though we know they’re there.

I have an example.  Here’s the jigsaw puzzle I completed last night …

It’s such an adventure, looking at the leaning of books and the shimmering of turquoise to see what piece would fit an empty space.  And the completed image is stunning.

This morning I was walking in Gent, enjoying the shine of wet cobblestones.  And then I came upon a dislodged cobble.  I wanted to make it right, so that no one would trip.

I picked up the stone and turned it this way and that, so it would fit the space.  And Voilà!  It worked.  I was happy with what you see here … the one in the middle.

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Is this in the land of “nothing important”?

Is this in the land of “something known”?

Or is this in the land of the unknowable?

(Smiling)