Ode to Narcissism

Supernova as it relates to the natural evolution of a human life…

This is stupid, but here it goes anyway…

I’m taking Oceanography at the moment (because I need a physical science with a lab to transfer), and we’re learning about the creation of the Universe, or, more specifically, the creation of earth through the explosion of a supernova (or perhaps more than one supernova), and the debris that was flung into the Earth… you know, the Big Bang Theory, etc.  And I was just thinking about this Oasis song called “Champagne Supernova”.  I never understood why they named that song the way that they did.  In fact, to be totally honest, I always thought it was just something stupid they came up with to throw into the song because they thought it sounded good or something.  But I’ve been thinking, and I think I might just have been a bit wrong about that.  Maybe it is fucking genius.

A supernova, by definition, is the death of a star.  It is when a star bursts, and all of the matter that created it is shot in different directions, thus dissipating into space. 

Now isn’t that some kind of tragic beautiful?

Bear with me here.  What I’m trying to say is that maybe what they meant when they wrote that song was that people are like stars, and we die like stars in supernova.  The champagne, no doubt, is meant to symbolize a sort of lifestyle which, undoubtedly, precipitates our demise.  We indulge ourselves to death.  We go out with a bang.  And our matter - whatever it is that we are composed of - dissipates and blows away and maybe lodges itself into something else, which begets something else, like when the (or those) supernova(s) exploded and the debris was lodged into Earth, which created the gases that created the saline rain which formed the Earth’s ocean(s), from which all life on Earth sprang forth.

It’s the tragic beauty of natural evolution.

Gallagher brothers, please accept my apology for thinking the song name was stupid and without acceptable meaning.  I was wrong.

But what do I know?  I’m no science major.