باغ سریال- نوشته جون آیکِن

مارک در حالیکه با بی اشتهایی به ظرف صبحانه‌اش نگاه میکرد با اعتراض پرسید “فرنیِ سرد بجای صبحانه؟” مادرش گفت “اینقدر ایراد گیر نباش. فقط تو یکی‌ داری اعتراض میکنی‌.” در حقیقت این حرفِ منصفانه ای نبود چرا که او و مارک تنها کسانی بودند که سر سفرهٔ صبحانه نشسته بودند. هرییِت رفته بود خانه یکی‌ از همکلاسی‌هایش و سرخک گرفته بود، و آقای آرمیتاژ بغفلت در گنجهٔ قفل شده حبس شده بود. خانم آرمیتاژ هم که به هرحال هیچوقت بغیر از نان و مارمالاد چیز دیگری روی میز صبحانه نمیگذاشت. مارک همینطور با اخم به فرنی سرد نگاه میکرد. این تنها صبحانه ای بود که در گنجه نبود، و همان موقع از یخچال بیرون آمده بود.

THE GRAND DESIGN

Our vision of the future is the most important characteristic that separates us from

other living organisms. We visualize a situation or a condition based on understanding of our surroundings and our knowledge of the past. We are certain that nothing lasts forever, and not only living organisms are mortal, so are other matters such as rocks and liquids. The only difference is the time that it takes for each object to decay. We know by experience that it takes milk two hours to spoil in room temperature; and it takes a plastic bottle one million years to decompose. In general, rates of change are different for each object. Therefore, change is a certainty, but the method and time of change varies. We may expand this to our galaxy and our universe and our world as a whole. Equipped with historical knowledge of our galaxy, our universe, and the events that started our world, scientists can draw a picture of the condition that determines fate of our world. Depending on how the beginning is theorized, the future can be predicted as the continuation of the same process. Some scientists have come to the conclusion that everything started at the point of the Big Bang, and anything prior to that event is dismissed as irrelevant. A few disregard the idea of the Big Bang, for a supreme munificent that created everything for a purpose not disclosed to us. Fewer scientists believe that the creator had designed everything, and the Big Bang was a part of such design. Some, including Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, speculate that it was designed by a scientifically conceivable natural and logical process, without interference by any supreme being.