존재에 대한 탐구: 빅뱅과 연결 이전

### 존재에 대한 탐구: 빅뱅에서 소셜 미디어 연결까지
* 🌌 과학에 대한 열정을 가진 문학 애호가인 L은 존재의 신비, 특히 **빅뱅 이전에 일어난 일**에 대해 생각해봅니다.
* 📜 과학 커뮤니케이터 행크 그린으로부터 영감을 받은 L은 **"위도 없고 아래도 없는" 무의 상태**를 묘사하며 공간과 시간의 부재를 강조하는 가슴 아픈 시를 썼습니다.
* 🌀 이 시는 **"무에서 무한히 밀도 있는 것"으로의 전환**이라는 역설을 고찰하며, 듣는 이로 하여금 수학의 예술성과 존재의 심오한 본질에 감탄하게 합니다.
* 🎶 L은 천문학자 칼 세이건에게서 영감을 받아 소셜 미디어와 인간 관계에 대한 갈망을 주제로 한 **'칼 산'이라는 곡**을 소개하며 경쾌한 분위기로 전환합니다.
* 📱 가사는 혼자 스크롤하는 경험과 타인에게 손을 내밀고 싶은 욕구를 탐구하며 **고독 속에서도 연결되어 있다는 느낌**의 본질을 포착합니다.
* ✨ "인공위성을 통해 수십억 개의 빛이 뻗어 나간다"는 대사를 통해 **디지털 시대에 인류가 공유하는 경험**을 강조합니다.
* 💔 L은 외로움의 순간에도 **"당신은 혼자가 아니다"**라는 위로와 함께 단절된 세상에서 연결의 중요성을 강조하는 메시지로 마무리합니다.

L은 빅뱅 이전의 허공과 소셜 미디어를 통한 인간의 연결을 시적인 여정으로 탐구합니다.

hey everybody. I'm L. If I look familiar to you, it's probably because at some point you scrolled across one of my many goofy videos about fonts or AI or PL planets or whatever one of the nerdy Sundries I've put out there. I am a literature person by trade and by training, but I love to nerd out about science. One of the questions that keeps me up at night is what happened before the Big Bang. So I wrote a poem about it with an assist from science communicator Hank Green, who was talking about that very topic. And he sort of said in passing this line which really struck me as simple but powerful. So I expanded it into this poem. Here it is. Before the Big Bang, there was no up, there was no down, there was no side to side, there was no light, there was no dark, nor shape of any kind. There were no stars or planet Mars or protons to collide. There was no up, there was no down, there was no side to

side and furthermore to underscore this total lacking state. There was no here, there was no there because there was no space, and in this endless void which can't be thought of as a place, there was no time, and so no passing minutes, hours, days. Of all the paradoxes that belabor common sense, I think this one's the greatest, this time before events, 'cause how did we get from nothing to infinitely dense, from a measurably small to inconceivably immense. But before we get unored from the question at the start, let's take a breath and marvel at when math becomes an art 'cause we don't have to comprehend it to know there was a time when there was no up, there was no down, there was no side to side. Thank you. Well, I just have one other thing I want to share with you before I go, and I'm going to invite guitarist Tony Lingren up here to join me for this. This is a song I wrote about social media, where I spend so much of my time, and I think we're so many of us spend

maybe too much of our time, uh, and I wrote this about kind of the endless scroll and I think the conscious and unconscious desire that we all might have to reach out to other human beings and make connection, con in the digital void, even as we're sitting alone, um, on our devices in our, in our homes. And I named the song Carl San after the great astronomer and philosopher who saw the connections between ourselves and the billions and billions of stars in the night sky that are constantly sending out their light through the void to make contact. So, this is Carl San. [Music] Hey, how are you? Are you scrolling alone inside your room? Is your heart good or did something go and break it? In the words of Carl S, we're all just stars and [Music] bacon. That's not quite what he said, but it's true. Hey, you're still here. Are you like me on this app so you can be lost and numb in a warm bath made content, watching brilliant bits of nonsense, 'cause it feels like making

contact maybe that's just me. How are you? And we are billions and billions of lights reaching out through a satellite just to know that feeling that even when we're cold and on our own, we're not alone. Not alone. [Music] We are billions and billions of lights reaching out through a satellite just to know that feeling that even when we're cold and on our own, we're not alone. Not alone. And hey, you alright? Are you scrolling alone again tonight? You'll be fine even if your heart is breaking. You got me and Carl Sagan's famous postulation that if we're all alone in space, it'd be an awful waste. So I'm just signing in to say how are you. Thank you.

Poetry and Music That Reaches Across the Digital Void | Elle Cordova | TED

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은 과학, 특히 빅뱅 이전에 무슨 일이 일어났는지에 대한 질문에 대해 괴상한 이야기를 즐기는 문학가입니다.

행크 그린의 강렬한 대사에서 영감을 받아 빅뱅 이전의 공간, 시간, 존재의 총체적 부재를 탐구하는 시를 썼습니다.

이 시는 무에서 무한히 밀도 있고 거대한 무언가로 전환하는 역설을 강조합니다.

화자는 디지털 시대의 인간 연결에 대한 욕구를 반영하여 물리적으로 혼자임에도 불구하고 손을 뻗는 역설을 강조합니다.

'칼 산'은 인간과 별의 연결을 강조한 천문학자이자 철학자인 칼 세이건에게서 영감을 받은 곡입니다.

가사는 콘텐츠를 스크롤하며 그 과정에서 위안을 얻고 무감각해지는 청취자의 경험을 다루고 있습니다.

화자는 외로움에 대해 성찰하며 우리가 우주에서 혼자가 아니라는 점을 강조합니다.

밤에 혼자서 스크롤하는 일반적인 경험을 인정하고 안심을 제공합니다.

이 메시지는 연결의 중요성과 인간 경험의 공유를 상기시켜 줍니다.