Just a theory........ The earth is one part of the double helix as the past trails off like upward floating smoke. Its opposite, invisible to the human eye or even the hubble telescope for that matter (could you ever see past the sun), runs simultaneously the other way its coils swirling off into the past as do ours to replicate themselves. The sun runs through the centre basically reading the strand as it plunges down into the future lighting up the genetic code. The future is the fuel, the present is the flame, the past is the smoke. In this sense the universe may well be reproducing itself. Our galaxy is one great colossal knot of double helixes, in other words the nucleus of a cell. So if the galaxy is a cell that replicates itself then that would make the universe some sort of being or at the very least a mass of billions of cells, a brain perhaps, probably a brain, a growing brain, a learning brain, a self-replicating brain. Life energy flows through all of living things and rises up into the ether to form the multicoloured smoke of the past. As smoke expands in air so too does the past as it rises behind us separating from itself to be replicated and lived again. With the suns relentless march the past grows until the galactic nucleus, fed by the invisible ectoplasmic mitochondria of the cosmic void, can do no more than separate into two identical cells. Who is to say that those cells do not then evolve independently to create ever more complexity within the organism? It’s an electrochemical conscious thing and it all depends on the colour of your life.