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1:16 a.m. || Sunday, Jan. 12, 2003
"'If it's a clear night, we can see millions, even billions of years back into the history of the universe. So in a way, we are going home.'
'I don't know what you mean.'
'You and I also began with the Big Bang, because all substance in the universe is an organic unity. Once in a primeval age all matter was gathered in a clump so enormously massive that a pinhead weighed many billions of tons. This 'primeval atom' exploded because of the enormous gravitation. It was as if something disintegrated. When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way back to ourselves.' "
Sophie's World, by Jostein Gaardner
-C