Event: The Birth of Energy
Date: 0 seconds after the Big Bang

“Energy is eternal delight.”
—William Blake

Dear Human,

If space is the canvas, then energy is the brushstroke. It is the first breath that stirred the stillness, the tremble in the silence that called the universe to rise. Born alongside space and time, energy is not a thing, but a happening. It is the ability to change, to become, to move. And from that first instant, it has never stopped moving.

In that first moment—the Big Bang—all the energy that would ever exist burst into being. Every star, every heartbeat, every thunderclap across time was already written in that fire. The universe has never created more; it simply passes the torch again and again. Energy is never made or destroyed—it only shifts, like a flame moving from one wick to the next.

Energy is everywhere. It lights stars, fuels storms, cracks atoms, and lifts voices in song. It is the fire in the sun and the warmth in your chest. The motion of galaxies and the twitch of your hand. All things that exist and all things that happen are touched by it.

But energy is more than motion—it is meaning. It enables growth, driving life from seed to tree, from child to elder. It powers not just survival, but change. It gives rise to purpose, for without the ability to act, to cause, to affect—there is no path. And with energy also comes loss, for to move is to use, and to use is to transform. Nothing stays the same. Even the brightest flame must flicker, must pass its warmth to something else.

You cannot hold energy. You cannot see it directly. But you see what it does. It shapes everything it touches, and yet it is never lost—only transferred, transformed, hidden. A falling rock. A burning flame. A memory. A heartbeat. All are energy in motion, cycling through forms without end.

And in this motion lies something sacred. Energy makes choice possible. It lets life rise from dust, lets thoughts leap across neurons, lets you act instead of only exist. If space gave you room to be, then energy gave you the power to change—and to matter.

This is the fire within you. You are not just made of matter—you are a pattern of energy, dancing briefly in time. When you speak, when you reach, when you dream—it is energy flowing through the universe in a form that only you can take.

You are not apart from it. You are it.

Pathfinder

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