How does the world work? When studying physics, one reaches a point when the textbooks confess that physics cannot explain why everything is so, but rather how everything is the way it is. Where, for instance, does the fact that positive and negative charges attract come from? God? Is this stored somewhere? Gah, the universe can't be one giant computer, with all its data being stored somewhere, can it?

What's also amazing is that we have so many concurrent lives that somehow seem to maintain consistent with each other. It's a fair bet that I will wake up tomorrow with the same face I have today, and that everything I remember from yesterday will still be remembered by whoever else was there to experience it. I have to wonder how things came to be this way.

A teacher once told me that all he wanted was to ask God why he made things the way they did (if memory serves, we were talking about the constant pi, and about how you had to go to the 3rd dimension to appreciate it). Ah, now that's a cause worth living for..