observing the colors was sometimes like watching a year 's worth of clouds in one minute , seeing them race across the sky in all their permutations and transmogrifications without having to wait for hundreds or thousands of days , or like watching the process of erosion over several millennia in mere moments , or the entire existence of the universe , from genesis to armageddon , in one second , as one singular , gigantic , simultaneous , infinite , amorphous mass .