Someone is taking another crack at a Big Bang alternative theory, where the Universe keeps repeatedly expanding and contracting. NB: I know Science doesn't work this way, but intuitively, I've...
Someone is taking another crack at a Big Bang alternative theory, where the Universe keeps repeatedly expanding and contracting.
NB: I know Science doesn't work this way, but intuitively, I've never liked Inflation - the currently accepted Big Bang theory. A single unexplained-and-unexplainable origin of a Universe-full of energy exploding endlessly into the future. I've always quietly assumed that the Universe actually pulses thru expansion-contraction cycles over and over, and that eventually, Science will realize that my Intuition is correct. As such, I'm always unduly optimistic when new alternate theories like this pop up.
NB: The article author tries some analogies that, for me at least, utterly fail to explain the concepts. I'd appreciate anyone else taking a stab at a layperson's translation....
Same. As for another non-science POV: It seems to me like every case of humanity thinking something "special" about their point in existence turned out to be rather egocentric/wishful thinking....
I know Science doesn't work this way, but intuitively, I've never liked Inflation - the currently accepted Big Bang theory. A single unexplained-and-unexplainable origin of a Universe-full of energy exploding endlessly into the future.
Same. As for another non-science POV: It seems to me like every case of humanity thinking something "special" about their point in existence turned out to be rather egocentric/wishful thinking. Earth being flat and us being in the center of it, the sun rotating around the earth, humans not being animals, etc. So why should the literal universe be any different?
Why should it be the only one existing or why should we be on a side the Big Bang that's so special (i.e. some point between not existing at all and kinda drifting off into nothingness for all eternity)? It's IMO much more likely that we're in the middle of a hodgepodge of reality that just knots into itself at any possible size and time span, into some form of infinity. Even if we have no way (theoretical or practical) to ever tell. So yea, from our point of view, the universe might just be expanding and everything before the Big Bang doesn't make any sense to even worry about. But it's likely just because we're too stupid to understand, not because we're special.
(btw, the whole "we're not that special" line of thinking also works well with musing about alien life, which nicely illustrates how it's mostly just sci-fi romanticism)
Someone is taking another crack at a Big Bang alternative theory, where the Universe keeps repeatedly expanding and contracting.
NB: I know Science doesn't work this way, but intuitively, I've never liked Inflation - the currently accepted Big Bang theory. A single unexplained-and-unexplainable origin of a Universe-full of energy exploding endlessly into the future. I've always quietly assumed that the Universe actually pulses thru expansion-contraction cycles over and over, and that eventually, Science will realize that my Intuition is correct. As such, I'm always unduly optimistic when new alternate theories like this pop up.
NB: The article author tries some analogies that, for me at least, utterly fail to explain the concepts. I'd appreciate anyone else taking a stab at a layperson's translation....
Same. As for another non-science POV: It seems to me like every case of humanity thinking something "special" about their point in existence turned out to be rather egocentric/wishful thinking. Earth being flat and us being in the center of it, the sun rotating around the earth, humans not being animals, etc. So why should the literal universe be any different?
Why should it be the only one existing or why should we be on a side the Big Bang that's so special (i.e. some point between not existing at all and kinda drifting off into nothingness for all eternity)? It's IMO much more likely that we're in the middle of a hodgepodge of reality that just knots into itself at any possible size and time span, into some form of infinity. Even if we have no way (theoretical or practical) to ever tell. So yea, from our point of view, the universe might just be expanding and everything before the Big Bang doesn't make any sense to even worry about. But it's likely just because we're too stupid to understand, not because we're special.
(btw, the whole "we're not that special" line of thinking also works well with musing about alien life, which nicely illustrates how it's mostly just sci-fi romanticism)