The Universe #4

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4 “I like the Buddhist’s idea about the universe.” “What do they say?” “It’s the emptiness.” “WHAT?” “Emptiness.” “I know. I mean, what does THAT mean?” “You know about the ‘Big Bang’?” “What about that?” “Okay, let’s see…what do you think that the ‘Big Bang’ comes out of? Certainly it doesn’t come out of nothing.” “Well, I don’t study astronomy, and you’re supposed to be telling me about that ‘emptiness’ you just talked about, not questioning me.” “I’m explaining!” “Sorry.” “Well, you see…the point of the whole thing is that, you just can’t explain where it comes from, right?” “Not that I know of.” “And whatever you made up to explain it, you’ll end up striking up another problem —and the same question…where does it come from?” “That’s true…but still…” “So if you can’t explain it, it means that…there’s really nothing there!” “Wait a minute! That’s not right!” “I knew you’d say that.” “I mean, how’s that supposed to be possible?” “Oh, maybe we’re just the imagination of someone else! Like Sophie in Sophie’s World.” “Now you’re getting too far.” “But it doesn’t mean that there’s nothing there. It really means that nothing is really there ‘independently’.” “Still doesn’t make sense.” “It does! It just says nothing can be entirely on its own, it must depend on the existence of something else.” “Like, there must be something else there to stir up the Big Bang?” “Something like that.” “You are not sure?” “Not really. I just thought that it’s a nice way to solve the whole mystery.” “Indeed. Very nice.”

4 「我喜歡佛教徒說的宇宙。 」 「他們怎麼說?」 「空。 」 「什麼?」 「空。 」 「我知道。我的意思是,那是什麼意思?」 「你聽過『大爆炸』嗎?」 「那是什麼?」 「嗯,我想想…你覺得大爆炸是從哪裡來的?它總不可能憑空出現吧?」 「這個嘛,我沒研究天文學。你應該要跟我解釋你剛剛說的『空』是什麼吧?不是 問我問題。 」 「我在解釋啊!」 「抱歉。 」 「你看,整件事的重點是,你解釋不了大爆炸是怎麼來的,對吧?」 「我不知道。 」 「就算你試著去解釋它,最後你還是會問另一個問題──一個一樣的問題:它是 怎麼來的?」 「是沒錯,但是…」 「如果你不能解釋,那表示什麼都不存在!」 「等等!這不對!」 「我就知道你會這樣說。 」 「我的意思是,這怎麼可能?」 「喔,可能我們都只是別人的想像,就像是蘇菲的世界(Sophie’s World)裡的 蘇菲一樣。 」 「你扯太遠了。 」 「但這也不表示什麼都不存在。應該說,沒有什麼東西是獨立存在的。 」 「還是不太合理。 」 「當然合理!只是說,沒有任何東西是完全單獨存在的,它必須依附在另一個東 西的存在上。 」 「比如說,有個什麼東西引發了大爆炸。 」 「之類的。 」 「你不確定?」 「不見得。我只是覺得這是一個解開奧秘的方式。 」 「的確。很好。 」

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