I Was A Teenage Adolescent!

                                                  {Normaphoto of early universe}

In its quark-gluon plasma phase, the universe cooled and fundamental forces took their present forms.  The first neutral atoms, mostly hydrogen, began to mingle and wander farther from the nozzle in nothing that was their home. Still, because all electrons are identical, there was no variety in the universe until their orbits interlocked. That is when reality expanded into adolescence.

When I entered the same climacteric, I imagined the universe looked like this and rather liked me:

As each electron was --and will always be-- surrounded by a virtual charge of possibility, I wondered if the process extended to our persons. I wondered if each real particle of us is the most probable of a cloud of virtual particles. I wondered if the mind could not only direct us toward knowledge and maturity, but also seek umbrageous shelter that protects us from ignorance. I still don't know, which proves my point in almost all directions at once.

So I asked Norma to go out and take some new photos of the universe, stipulating she stay on Earth --which is asking a lot from people who levitate-- and see what sort of overhead protection we have. Here's Monday's:

Then, she went out to the same place in the yard 24 hours later and got this:

The obvious variation in celestial shielding from Monday to Tuesday indicates a radical mood-swing consistent with cosmic adolescence. This could cause my own ignorance to increase in the same time-span (but how should I know?).  Atmospheric changes reflect the formation of complex mass and subsequent dominance of gravity as a fundamental force. Things got all mixed up and sporadically rebellious. So  yes, I was a teenage adolescent but so's the universe.