Uncertainty

It's one of the keys to everything. You can't know everything about everything, or really everything about anything. Heisenberg proved that, and it threw everyone into chaos. Our models of the universe were reduced to games of chance.

You see, you can only plot the possibilities of something, the likelihood of it being at point A instead of point B. While you're pondering it in your head, it could have flown off to land at point ZZ3ZA, and you'll never know until you look.

Physicists came up with a way to describe them, however, regardless of where they are. They're called "wave functions": mathematical representations of all the possible outcomes for a single unit. Wave functions propagate everywhere, indefinitely, for as long as needed. Things only cease "being" wave functions and become definite "things" when they're observed, when someone finally peeks through his fingers and says "boo". That's when the wave function collapses into one single state, a state which can only be predicted by probability but never actually known until it's observed.

And that's life. We bounce around on a sea of probability, predicting and guessing what may come but never really knowing until it happens, until we change possibility into reality.

That's where you'll find me, on that event horizon - riding the crest of the collapsing wave function. Forever observing, watching things happen, enjoying the moment but always wondering... what's next?

And, always finding out.