The universe is expanding and despite what Big Bang theory
might have expected it isn’t slowing down as it expands, it’s accelerating.
This has been proven but nobody understands why. Is it the effect of dark
energy or dark matter or is it something else altogether?
Now I have a very hazy grasp of physics and I’m not good at
maths and equations of any kind have always left me cold. If I could have my
way numbers would be banned and those squiggly symbols the physicists use would
simply be the names of pop stars. I’m a dreamer you see and whilst I have ideas
I’d never be able to prove them with an equation. My mind isn’t built that way.
So why is the universe accelerating as it expands away from
the big bang? Well, maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s accelerating not away from it’s
beginning, but maybe it’s being drawn faster and faster to its end. I’ve never
been able to get my head around the idea that the universe is infinite. All
space is enclosed by something and to my mind the universe is only space. What
it the universe is enclosed and whatever encloses the universe is using gravity
or magnetism or some such other force to pull the contents of the universe
towards its edges?
Maybe it’s a box or a sphere; perhaps it has no fixed shape
at all but is a solid border. Maybe the universe isn’t infinite after all.
Maybe it’s finite and bounded by a shimmering energy field that everything and
everyone is rushing - faster and faster - towards. Perhaps no part of the
universe has reached it yet and the great race is not yet run, but what will
happen when the first galaxy gets there? Will there be another big bang for it
all to start again or will we break through to wherever?
Are we being pulled rather than pushed and where are we going?
Are we being pulled rather than pushed and where are we going?
I bet Tesla would know.
reminds me very much of a weekend in Scotland a few years ago. Vince Hill and his wife took me to a Buddhist retreat near Lockerbie. All very well meaning and friendly but not a great time to find out that your allergic to French green lentils. Vince was in his element - swanning about in robes and mumbling under his breath the entire time. Wasn't nearly so peaceful and full of chakra after being nipped on the leg by the peacock though
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