A New, Deeper Connection to Q4P

Plant life became a torchbearer of Potential as soon as it was given birth. Consider everything that came before it. Yes, the universe was steadily growing more complex. New elements were created, and elements were coming together to form more and more complex molecules and interact with one another in more complex ways. But there was a limit to the complexity that was involved.

Think of it this way. In a pre-plant era, there were only two options for driving complexity:

1. Things could continue to do exactly the same thing – in the endless sea of hydrogen and, rarely, a few other light elements, stars could form.

Those stars could follow their life path and do pretty much the same thing every time.

2. Things could change over a period of time – Within those individual stars, their life from birth to death created heavier elements. And every once in a while, something rare would happen. Perhaps two stars would collide, creating a new stellar system, or a supernova would occur, or a black hole.

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Yet, all of these things followed a script. A script that was unchanging and eternal, it seemed, in the universe. Nothing new was happening. This remained true until the formation of life. The first life to appear was plant life, as it was the least complex.

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