My brain started going a million miles an hour last night and I was up till 2 in the morning last night trying to get everything out before I lost my train of thought. Some people know I’m a astronomy/philosophy/science dork and I think discovery channel is the best thing since the cats. (this bounces are A LOT, sorry if you can’t follow, you might have to read it a few times) Currently I am perched in my stairwell because this is the only place I get decent internet reception from the neighbors (Thanks, whoever you are!)
And so it begins
The big bang theory (aside from creationism, the main theory (and scientific theory) on how our universe was created. Then to accompany that there is also the quantum theory of the “big-bounce” (read about it here). Basically the Big-Bounce theory insinuates that the universe was created through the big bang, the universe starts expanding at an exponential rate for billions of years (Laymen’s Terms: the raisin bread baking theory, Look it up, I can’t find my book). Gradually the universe’s expansion slows, and slows until it stops, THEN, it starts to contract, slowly at first, then faster and faster, with billions of galaxies hurtling at one another at an unthinkable speed when the universe finally “comes together” colliding in mass chaos this creates another “big bang.” and *poof* we start all over again and it happens in another however-many billion years (Like a yo-yo almost).. The Big Bounce theory is that this will happen infinitely.
If you think about it (we’ll exclude how life was created in the first place) which each subsequent “bang” there must have been some microorganism from which life has to spawn. [You could, however, think that with each “bang” life just starts over from the very beginning of time, but in some ways that is the definition of insanity. But I’ll get to that later].
So, MY theory (and it’s mine b/c I’ve never read, heard, seen it before) is as follows. So, we (obviously) evolve over the course of this particular universe’s lifetime, via adaptation/evolution (cloning, scientific manipulation, what have you). So if with each episode of the universe we keep spawning from a more and more evolved organism, we actually might be making some progress at a faster rate in regards to evolution.
OR (Another random tangent of thought) we could start each evolution process from some extreme organism such as a exteremomophiles (noted: hyperthermophiles, barophile, lithoautotroph, & endolith) or something such as the prehistoric sharks that have been found on the ocean floor un-evolved for millions of years. In that case, in which these organisms have hardly evolved over the course of this universe… we’re, bluntly so-to-speak, fucked.
BUT, if this is NOT the case, then we evolve more and more each time the universe contracts and starts over, and since there is basically no such thing as de-evolution (only adaptation for survival) we get a “head start” with each passing big bang.
Now here is where it starts to get weird, if it hasn’t already…. If this is true (that we change with each episode) it seems likely that we are NOT apt to make the same mistakes again (basically, to have a the universe be stuck on repeat like a broken record). This really all depends on if the big-bounce theory is correct (but we’ll really never know. Because, if in the even that we DO figure it out, that the space is contracting and the world will end in a catastrophic BANG, all information documenting it will be destroyed, duh).
Upon thinking about this more, maybe this is possibly where the idea of reincarnation comes from (I don’t know how or why, but it some way it makes sense in my head damnit). If we’re all basically “recycled” atoms and other various particles from the previous universe, a chemical/anatomic make up of something prior, in some wacky way that could possibly explain deja vu and the whole feeling of “I’ve been here before.” (THOUGH – that would mean that we would have to life each life the same as before, maybe you don’t only live once).
Entertain the idea, that maybe you are able to tap into that “memory bank”/electrical impulse/DNA/instinct, whatever you want to call it. You could be (POSSIBLY) able to alter your life plan and live differently each time. This could account for dreams & visions of past lives. as a plant/animal/rock/sentient being/ or another human. If this could be correct, essentially we all are a part of each other. This could be an explanation of a certain energy of people to feel such an interconnectedness with all living and non-living things & as well as the universe; because we’ve all collided and separated millions if not billions of times prior throughout light years of space for eternity. [also to be duely noted, astrobiology, the study of microbial life on other planets and its commonality due to extremophiles, Rare earth hypothesis is interesting too]
That basically is a more spiritual (or just crazy) take on it because certainly not everyone (at all) feels connected to everything in some way. It would be quite an amazing concept to wrap your head around if your entire body, your entire essence is composed of a a piece of everything in this entire universe. And yes, I’m not retarded, there are these things called Atoms… and yes scientifically we are all a part of each other and everything via atom particles. But beyond that, possibly smaller particles than that which make up atoms or make up the parts which make up atoms.
Now, if we don’t kill ourselves in the process of using the Large Hadron Collider for particle acceleration maybe one day we can break down life to an even more raw from than the atom. For all I know this could be the epiphany for life. To the naked ear it sounds fucking crazy and I’m not a scientist so I have virtually nothing to back this up. Maybe someone has already proven me wrong, or testing any of these theories would take decades if not thousands of years so its not like I am going to be around to see the results. Either way its just my non linear thinking.
(And now, even more eccentric thinking) So, if we DO relive each cycle as same as the last, and DO build a particle accelerator each time, what if the Big Bang Theory is just a malfunction of the particle accelerator creating a black saturn? THIS could stop the universe from infinitely expanding, make it slow down, stop, and begin to contract. Since a black saturn is an black hole that is reinforce by a saturn like ring (thus the term: Black Saturn) which makes it virtually indestructible it would swallow the entire universe… [unless of course the Hawking’s Radiation theory, by Mr. Steven Hawking himself, is correct: which entertains the idea that a black whole can just evaporate without causing harm, but to my knowledge this theory doesn’t account for the creation of black saturns…]
At the “end” of the universe (what exactly would that look like anyway? I’ve always pictured it’d be a white dimensionless space, like that room in Willy Wonka when they try to transport themselves from one part of the lab to the other. Just White, but black would be more logical since it is the absence of light and color…) Anywho, at the “end” of the universe, it would (logically) implode on itself with such a great force as to create, once again, the big bang. So much energy (the whole universe) in one place would seemingly erupt into some sort of extreme super nova unlike anything we’ve ever seen before creating the universe as we know it… again. And with this.. you just rinse and repeat.
NOW, we have some philosophy coming into the mix here, the theories of determinism vs. free will. The big-bounce theory would correspond with the theory of determinism [see hard determinism] (one of the pioneering philosophers of this theory was Immanuel Kant), meaning: our lives are all pre-determined for us (thus stating – which I don’t agree with – we shouldn’t have to take responsibility for anything, but thats a whole other can of worms I wont go into today) therefor we are destined to experience the big-bounce theory by creation of the Large Hadron Collider (Particle acceleration) and that would just be the way it is, nothing we could do about it.
The other side of that theory is the theory of free will [see: incompatablism/moral responsibility], this would go along with the idea that WE create our own destiny, back to the idea of possibly remembering past lives, deja vu, and being able to alter our life with each passing episode. I personally fall more along the lines of a compatablist, entertaining the idea that quite possibly things, people and events happen for a reason, and there are certain events, places, people and experiences that you are destine to go through and you WILL go through, but how you get there is your choice & the decisions that you make. (Awareness).
Then again, maybe we can all just accept that we know nothing about everything and work on treating each other and this life with respect. God knows we haven’t even been able (as a general society/species) to accomplish even that. A transcendental and symbiotic relationship with life is so simple yet so damn difficult for us as a whole to grasp let alone accomplish. Utopian Anarchy is impossible. All you can ask for is to be surrounded by loving, honest, & positive like-minded beings who inspire you to create yourself and grow in a direction that is positive for you & everyone that you come in contact with in this life.