One of the problems with a essay such as this one is that it is so abstract. Many people, including myself, understand such concepts more easilyif they can be compared to concrete examples. Perhaps this is why parables have been effectively used by numerous teachers and many cultures have myths which can explain simple to complex concepts. This is why I started this essay with a parable and end it by drawing parallels between the abstract and concrete one more time. Science tells us that the universe started as one formless indescribable unity, barely comprehendible to us, then in the Big Bang began to evolve into what it is today.
Myths speak of a formless void or egg which was the beginning of the universe.
Out of the Big Bang emerged two forms, matter and energy. The world is full of pairs such as consistency and change, day and night, male and female, positive and negative, etc. Each of these can be interpreted in different ways and is not mutually exclusive. The theory of Relativity explains that matter and energy are two different manifestations of the same thing and every observation is relative to something else. As the universe expanded, both matter and energy took on different forms.