The Universe's Conspiracy

We all have at some moment in our lives stopped to ask ourselves that all profound question ; " Where do we come from ? " The immediate answer to this question is our mother's womb, and many are satisfied with this answer and go on living their lives with a false sense of glee.

However, there are some whose minds are not as easily satisfied. There are some who seek a more fundamental answer. It is those individuals that now find themselves confronted with the paradox of the chicken and the egg. " What came first, the chicken or the egg ?" or in this context "the baby or the womb ?". As we follow this paradox back in time we soon realize that the gradual nature of the evolutionary selection process means that our original question is meaningless because there is no discrete point when a womb ceases to be a womb or a baby ceases to be a baby. Every womb and every baby is different and the changes that each undergo as we move back in time, are so small that no point can be described as the defining moment when a womb appeared for the first time or likewise for a baby. 

At this point, there are some from that original unsatisfied group that find that their curiosity has been quenched by an answer that has led them right back to the beginning of life. This is the end point for biological curiosity. Beyond this point there are still fewer adventurous souls that dare to venture beyond, and ask themselves a still finer question ; "what are the properties of life and all the materials that constitute the universe around us". To these individuals the final answer lies in the complex interaction of the chemicals that created that primordial soup of RNA that in time led to the womb and the baby of the original question. 

Now most of the world is happy and satisfied. Their question has led them a long way back in time, up to 3.9 billion years before the birth of the questioned baby. However, there still remains a small subset of the population that is uneasy. A portion of the population whose curiosity seems to know no bounds, a bunch of men and women who will only find satisfaction in knowing that all encompassing truth. A truth that often remains hidden from view, but whose precense is nevertheless felt and communicated by a mysterious language. A language used by the universe to communicate all its activities, the language spoken by the Universe's mind ; Mathematics.