Looped

A buddy of mine received a photograph from an old friend he hadn't seen for years, the picture taken just a few weeks ago showed his friend and his father.

The odd thing was the father died ten years ago and the picture looked untouched and was therefore assumed to be a clever illusion, however, on closer inspection and when rational thought returned it was evident that it wasn't his friend and his father, it was in fact, his friend and his son. The family likeness passed down through a generation, a DNA photocopy.

Spooky for him, and spooky for me too because I've seen the same thing in my own family tree.

We're all just passing through here and if we reproduce then time just replaces one set of people with another, all living in different ages, but experiencing similar emotions. In 1969 man landed on the moon and as a twelve year old I was amazed and excited about the space age and the exciting future ahead of us all.

Rewind a hundred and forty years back in time, to 1829, when my 3rd great-grandfather, Michael Wheldon, probably felt the same rush upon seeing Stephensons Rocket at the Rainhill locomotive trials (a few miles from his home town of Prescot, Lancashire), the beginning of the age of steam and the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.

Looped.

It makes you wonder what it's all about.

Douglas Adams wrote that there is a theory which states that if anyone discovers just exactly what the universe is for and why we are here, that it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

Then, as he points out, there is a theory which states that this has already happened.