A symbol of the Big Bang has to include a symbol of DNA. Because a symbol of the Big Bang is a symbol of beginnings, the beginning of the Universe and the beginning of life. So how did we get here and where are we going?

   A symbol of the Big Bang has to remind us of where we came from. So it’s worth remembering that you are a direct descendant of the first thing that ever lived. Your life came down from that first life. The first life that ever was.  In an unbroken chain of birth and death. You have billions of ancestors. All of whom deserve you thanks and praise for getting through. For reproducing a way right to you.

   In a symbol of the Big Bang, DNA is also a symbol of biochemistry. It’s a “shout-out” from the Microcosm to the Macrocosm. Large organisms from from small molecules. And then it goes back again. It’s a feedback loop between large and small.

   DNA in this symbol of the Big Bang can also represent biochemistry and our ability to control nature.

   In this symbol of the Big Bang DNA can also represent the biology of Planet Earth. That  is all biology, and everything that has its source in DNA. It represents the world of nature. A world we all came from, and still love.

   Also in this symbol of the Big Bang, DNA is followed by symbols for “The Brain” and “The Book”, or culture if you will. And so in this symbol for the Big Bang it becomes a stand in for our animal or more instinctive nature. Here the three rings in this symbol for the Big Bang come to mean something like the “Id, Ego and Superego” in Freudian psychology.

   In this symbol of the Big Bang, DNA can also represent the birth of coding and representation. To me it’s the birth of “story telling” and linear representation. It’s as if writing developed twice on our planet. First with DNA and then again with us. Culture reinvents coding and evolution.

   A symbol for the Big Bang like this is an invitation to consider all the insights science can offer. So in this symbol for the Big Bang DNA could also symbolize the role that shapes play in the destiny of things. The double helix becomes reproduction. In biochemistry shapes are everything. Shapes determine functionality. So in this sense DNA and biochemistry could remind us of mechanical technology and the functionality of architecture.

   DNA in this symbol of the Big bang could also say something about information itself. It my understanding that information comes from restrictions and definitions. It’s no coincidence that life requires solid matter to exist.

   So DNA along with “The Brain” and “The Book” plays an important role in defining our lives and information in this symbol of the Big Bang.