This is a story about the
cosmos, about a great burst of energy in which space and time are suddenly born. From that moment, matter arises from a single point, and starts to mix,
interact, join, divide… In the middle of this chaos, certain order appears.
Planets enter into an orbit, stars begin to burn in a smooth but violent way.
The main interaction between matter is in the form of collisions, where energy
is exchanged. Existing planets get destroyed, shattered. Other elements of
space find in their meeting an opportunity to join, forming new planets or
stars and leaving behind parts of the progenitors.
In this process of
destruction and creation, in some planets chemicals are reacting in a million
different reactions. Molecules split due to impact with other molecules or by
their own instability. Other molecules merge to form new compounds. This is a
beautiful dance of particles governed by a random and chaotic rulebook. But
somehow, in some place, a miracle occurs when a fairly stable type of molecule
gets into a liquid state. Not too packed to prevent other molecules to move.
Not too loose to allows excessive freedom. It is just the perfect amount of
density and a slightly polar property, which other molecules find optimal for a
gentle exchange of information. Reactions are smooth and more ordered, and thus
complex interactions start to take place, where patterns repeat so often that
two special kinds of rules govern this landscape: positive feedback and negative
feedback.
This is the story of two
types of forces. This is the story of polarity and interrelation. This is
the story of the Ying and the Yang.
This is the story of
life: a perfect balance between molecules exchanging information in loops.
