Scientists have discovered that DNA contains a kind of built-in timer that clocks the frequency with which mutations occur. They show that DNA bases can shape-shift for a thousandth of a second, transiently morphing into alternative states that allow the molecule's replication machinery to incorporate the wrong base pairs into its double helix. Such mismatches, though rare, serve as the basis of genetic changes that drive evolution and diseases like cancer. [
1] Life and death. Creation and destruction. Opposites. And yet part of the same cycle of existence. There is no stability without constant change. There is no life without constant death. There is no being without the dark void of nothingness. Existence sustaining the illusion of being. The emptiness of the universe (yourself) breaking that illusion into small unimportant pieces. And it is then, while drifting away into the void of the cosmos, that you realize that being was not about being in the first place…
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