We are Cameras Obscura

THE SIGHTS ARE SET

When setting nature on its current cyclic course, the Creator clearly made the following choice, and might have reasoned thus;

“Since all mass and all energy do I possess,
and one is equal to the other, then
in order to induce their transformation,
I could choose to make energy from mass.
Equally, I could choose energy to make mass,
for either would invoke a constant change.

Now, if I were to choose the former,
and change matter into energy,
the heavens will light up suddenly,
as neutrons start their inevitable decay,
and form the first atoms of the universal day.
Some matter (mass) would become visible and
appear to cluster, mesmerizingly, over time.

If I were to choose the latter, using energy to make mass,
it could clearly cause a mess, as only humans shall attest.
Far more trouble than it is worth!

So I choose mass to break this paradoxical inertia.
I shall let matter slowly transform itself into energy.
Oh, what a spectacle it will be to all that might behold,
for they will see the past from their present positions,
no matter what that position is at any time in the future!

Although I make this choice, man will still not grasp it.
He will persist in thinking I chose energy to make mass!
So I have no option but to make him see things upside down, and he’ll have to flip them in his brain…”