Just a Theory

He saw the earth as one part of a double helix with its opposite, invisible to the human eye running simultaneously the other way, its coils swirling off into the past to replicate themselves. The sun ran through the centre reading the strands as it plunged down into the future lighting up the genetic code. The future was the fuel, the present was the flame, the past was the smoke. In this sense the universe was reproducing itself. The galaxy was one great colossal knot of double helixes, in other words the nucleus of a cell. So if the galaxy was a cell that replicated itself then that would make the universe some sort of being or at the very least a mass of billions of cells, a brain perhaps, probably a brain, a growing brain, a learning brain, a self-replicating brain. Life energy flowed through all living things and rose up into the ether to form the multicoloured smoke of the past. As smoke expanded in air so too did the past as it rose behind them,  separating from itself to multiply and be lived again. With the sun's relentless march the past grew until the galactic nucleus, fed by the invisible ectoplasmic mitochondria of the cosmic void, could do no more than separate into two identical cells. Who was to say that those cells did not then evolve independently to create ever more complexity within the organism? It was an electrochemical conscious thing and it all depended on the colour of your life. You’d become both a star in heaven and a particle in space, your own strand of the nucleus, replicating yourself until you were your very own.