General Discussion

(and my conclusion has evolved)

that most of what scientists throw out as theories about the universe is just crap being thrown against the wall to see if it will stick.

i have decided that infinity means just that. never ending.

and two things are infinite. time, and space.

this photo, taken of the past from about 14.5 billion years ago (while the so-called universe created by the so-called big bang is only 14.7 billion years old) looks just like all the other photos, regardless of how far back in time they are representing.

when the hubble picks a tiny point of black in a photo and enlarges it with a long time lapse, the same thing appears.

yet more of the same.

the whole idea of a beginning, i think, is bound up in religious beliefs. "in the beginning, god created...." and "at the end of time there will be judgment....."

there was no beginning to time (thus no creation), and there is no end to time (thus no judgment).

there is no end to space, thus the universe doesn't stop. it just goes on and on and on, which is what the photos are proving.

when scientists "theorize" what happens a fraction of a second after the big bang it is beyond ludicrous.

when scientists look at the skies and say "there isn't enough matter there... there must be something else, it's DARK MATTER!" i say bullshit. were they taking into account the billions of additional constellations they are finding in these photos? and the billions in the next photos?

and the dark matter is what is pushing everything apart... to the point where molecules, even atoms are going to separate. bullshit.

i think there may have been a small "big bang", resulting from many black holes combining to act like the hoover vacuum cleaners of space, cleaning out an area of space of all matter. but what happens in many scenarios (you know, sort of like global warming), a critical mass occurs, and a new cycle begins. the density of matter in the mega black hole gets to a point to where it explodes and does begin a creation of new cosmic matter.

but in a universe that is infinite in scope, and unending in time, those small "big bangs" are happening constantly.

but since we just can't grasp the concept of infinity, we dumb it down to something that we can grasp, even though it is sooooo off the mark.

coming to this conclusion has caused me a dilemma.

given that time and space is infinite, even all that we conceive of the universe, will end. which means we are not even a speck in time and space. to all intents and purposes, we will have never existed since there will be no remnant or indication that we did.

so in transferring that conclusion to my everyday life, my decision is that i just need to get through this, one day at a time, and in a way that i do not feel that i have hurt anyone or anything.

at least i will be able to sleep. hopefully. and when i am gone, that's it. no biggie.

so when they say "don't sweat the small stuff", they don't realize that, in the grand scope of the infinite, there is nothing BUT small stuff.

and it all never existed.