Beginning to End (Sketch) | Pencil drawing by Martin Missfeldt

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Beginning to End (Sketch)

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On the left you can see the pencil drawing "Beginning to end" from 1993, if I remember correctly. Stupidly I have not dated the sheet. But there are several comparable pictures on the same paper, so the conclusion is obvious. So: what's the point?

When I was eighteen (that is, in 1987), I thought relatively extensively about the course of things and time. And about the question, how relatively large or small we are, nevertheless. Cosmologically seen. Actually a strange coincidence that we seem to lie so exactly in the middle...

Egal, so I read an article about the big bang and the origin of the world and Einstein's theory of relativity and stuff like that. And how you are at that age: you try to understand everything and make up wild theories out of what you got. In 1993, when this drawing came on paper, I still had the theory exactly ready, although I know of course that it is nonsense...

What always bothered me about metaphysical theories was that there should be two "instances": Matter and Time. I thought that was kind of messy, illogical. This stupid constant speed of light in Einstein's theory of relativity, and then still such a totally crooked value: "299,792.458 kilometers per second". Man, here it is about something big, important, there can be no crooked values. At that time it was clear to me that the definitions for length and time were fixed before. But nevertheless I felt it as deeply disturbing. So I have tinkered a theory: There is no time at all! Point. Only matter. Time is an interpretation of our mind for the physical phenomenon of "expansion". Time is expansion! And the big bang was not at all a bang in the sense of an explosion, but simply the beginning, quite uniformly and cleanly exponentially. It is already bad that one gets headache if one thinks about the question how the matter has come into its original state. But then still to believe that the whole thing was ignited like with a fuse, is probably completely crazy. At best picture newspaper level...

Well, fortunately I went the path of the artist and not that of the physicist. Because thereby I could record these thoughts, without now to fall further into metaphysical traps...

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