So, we’re a few months out from the end of the world and I think I’ve finally figured out how it all began… or close to it, at least.
As I was watching a fun TV show called “The Universe” with its musings on the Big Bang, and how our universe can be traced back all these billions of years to that one point in time, I couldn’t help but feel like the toddler who replies to every answer with, “Why?”. In my case, though, my question is an endless, “Okay.. So, what happened before THAT?”
Then I had an idea.
First, let the record show, I’m no astronomer. The universe, planets, and celestial bodies have always amazed me, but I don’t know much about them when it comes to their scientific details and ongoings. However, I do recall some basics from science and physics classes… like the wonder of gravity’s absence (which I bet would feel amazing on my spine), or how if you were to travel far enough away with a telescope, you could see history unfold on earth, or how time and space reach a point of evanescence inside a black hole.
So, I thought… why is the “Big Bang” theory so popular? Not the TV show – the TV show is pretty much awesome – but the actual theory? If we say the world began with that point, then there’s still the issue of what happened before then, and – for that matter – how and where time itself began.
However, if we know that time and space cease to exist inside of a black hole, wouldn’t it make more sense that perhaps our own universe came from exactly that – a place which we know is a point of potential end/beginning of space and time? You see, no matter how much sense that might make, most scientists probably don’t like that idea because they can’t measure for sure what happens at or past the event horizon.
“Time as an illusion” is an overused cliche; but our perception of the arrow of time being an illusion is totally logical concept. From a scientific standpoint, doesn’t it make more sense that time happens in a cycle, not an arrow?
Think about it. To say it doesn’t, would mean that every event you list would have to have an event that preceded it until you resort to telling me that I’m describing the “chicken or the egg” dilemma or if you’re religious, giving me the answer of “God” (or maybe the Prime Mover, if you… ya know.. worship Aristotle, or whatever).
Anyway, I am pretty much sure at least a few thousands of other people have also independently thought up this idea, already. They probably have even better laws of physics to call on, theories to name drop, and initials after their names. Even without all of that, it’s still interesting to wonder even on a basic level why this theory isn’t the more popular hypothesis as to how our universe truly began.
After all, it’s only logical.
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