Our technology and law are still primordial entities, the actual future will likely be more remarkable than any of our imagined futures.
Simply put, there once were two primordial entities which weren't very chicken-like or egg-like.
I've seen fresh footprints of Bengal tigers where they crossed in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh, proboscis monkeys peering from trees in Malaysia, and immense sea crocodiles launching themselves from primordial shores towards our boat in emerald enclaves of India's Bhitarakanika sanctuary.
The primordial gravitational waves Dr Kovac and his colleagues have found not only confirm inflation, they may also help physicists forge the long-sought link between quantum theory and relativity, two presently irreconcilable ways of explaining the universe.Gravitational waves are a prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which is the modern theory of gravity.
It was an ironic victory, though, for the killer evidence supporting the Big Bang was also an extra-galactic radio signal one left over from the primordial fireball itself.
But the vast majority of Indonesians supported the same party as in 1999 a remarkable degree of loyalty, considering that all but three of Indonesia's parties are under six years old.Most voters, it turns out, still abide by what anthropologists call "primordial loyalties" of religion, race, ethnicity and family.
If that were true, though, the universe would be a sad and empty place as almost all the primordial particles and antiparticles would have cancelled each other out leaving behind nothing but a puff of lifeless, post-annihilation photons.
Besides being frozen into the microwave background, the effects of the primordial cacophony should have been frozen into the structure of the universe.
"The one constant in revolutions is the primordial role played by the army," said Jean Tulard, a French historian of revolutions, in an interview in Le Monde.
But they often deceive people into thinking that because the value of all the stuff in society sums to some number, that number is a sort of plastic primordial stuff that can be transformed, like Anaximander's apeiron, into anything we like.Even a casual examination of the universe will reveal that this is not true.
If so, this primordial instinct joins a lengthening list of maladaptations to modern life.
