Have you ever wondered about the origin of the universe? Well, of course, most of you have. Although we’re small compared to the big picture, we thrive on learning more and more about where we came from. Thinking about the universe with its spectacular beauty leaves us dreaming of our origins beyond our imagination.
If you think you’ve heard it all, just take a pause. There are multitudes of theories which explain the origins of how we came into being within our universe. Many of these theories are strange and interesting, to say the least. While many are common theories we’ve heard before, all of them are intriguing. Let’s take a look at a few of them.
You may be familiar with black holes. Most people are. If not, here’s a breakdown. A black hole is the result of a star which has died, creating a hole which sucks in light and all other matter surrounding it. White holes work in the opposite manner. Instead of sucking matter in, they spit it out.
The white hole is an area of spacetime which cannot take any matter in from the outside, only spit it out. Meaning, a white hole could be the birth of a star or a multitude of them. Of course, this is just a hypothetical theory, created by the idea of relativity which is from the brain of Albert Einstein.
One origin could explain, in simple terms, the beginning of the universe. The Big bang theory is a popular one, especially among those who do not believe in creationism. Basically, the big bang theory says the universe came from a singular solid mass.
At one instant, everything began to expand. Matter and energy flew throughout the blackness to create the universe. This left background radiation behind the expanding universe. In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble brought forth this theory of the expanding universe, hence the evolution of the Big bang theory.
So, what if the Big bang wasn’t the actual beginning, but just a part of the process? Well, with the slow freeze theory, that is very possible. In this theory, it seems the universe started in a cold and empty pre-existence.
The particles in this existence became so heavy while gravity weakened, thus warming by radiation coming from the heavier masses. The Big bang may not have been a big band at all, but a slow warming and expanding process producing stars, and then whole galaxies over billions of years.
The universe may have strange origins, much like this one. Get ready to wrap your mind around this. Physicists suggested that our universe is simply a 3-dimensional sphere within a 4-dimensional universe. I guess you can say a universe inside another.
We never existed until a 4D star collapsed creating a 3D black hole, or an Event horizon. Material from the collapsed star formed a 3-dimensional membrane around the event horizon. Then expansion occurred within the membrane, hence the universe we know.
The plasma theory focuses on electromagnetism. The basic idea is that some kind of electrical process created everything in the present universe. This includes stars, comets, and the sun. Many people believe what surrounds them are huge filaments of ions and electrons. Forces from electromagnetism warp the electrons and ions. This theory suggests that the universe has an infinite age and size.
Otherwise known as the Steady state theory, the idea that the universe has no big bang or no marvelous creation, may be hard to swallow. However, this was the belief until the 1960s. Some still believe it.
There is a perfect cosmologic principle which states that the universe is the same no matter where you look. There is non-stop creation of matter that changes the density in the expanding universe. Since the universe is the same everywhere all the time, it has no beginning and no end.
This theory is interesting as well. It’s concerning the expansion and retraction of the universe. This idea states that the universe is always expanding…until it stops. The pulsating theory states that at some time this expansion could stop and then retract.
The retraction may reach a certain size and then a huge explosion similar to the big bang occurs, hence starting the process all over again. This is why it’s called the pulsating theory.
So, how did it all begin? How did so many beautiful cosmic and heavenly sites come into being? Honestly, it’s a mystery. We do, however, have theories which help us understand how the birth of the universe may have occurred.
In earlier times, there were only two popular theories of how our existence began: the Big bang theory and the belief in celestial creation. In modern times, the Big bang theory is widely acknowledged. Although the big bang theory may be the most popular theory around, there are many more intriguing ideas, as you can see above.
So, what do you think? What is your theory of the origin of this vast universe?
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I theorized that the universe was simply, the geometric embodiment of an integer count (0,1,2,3 ...). I worked on it for 60 years and got all of the main features of physics and cosmology (most mechanisms quantified). Unfortunately, there aren't many theories on earth that start from nothing ... so, no interest in my book ["Ex Nihilo - The Logic of Existence"] :o(
One interesting (and undeniable) thing about existence is that there are only a finite number of things to see. Imagine a sheet of paper that covers your field of view that has 1,000,000 pixels on it (about the resolution of a 720p TV). Let each pixel be either black or white. There are then 2^1,000,000 permutations that can be shown. In base10 it's 10^301030 permutations. Virtually all of these are just a random gray 'nothing'. Yet everything that can ever be seen (grayscale only) is depicted in this number. It's quite finite. So, if you lived 'forever' ... in principle ... you'd have to have 'do-overs' ;o)
I believe the universe was created by an intelligence that is neither mass nor energy. It existed before time and hence you could say "always" was. This intelligence initially, and possible by accident . created something like an explosion. When noting what it had done, it decided to do it again, and the second time it was more powerful. And so on - just as we create games to amuse us, the intelligence began creating "universes" to entertain itself(ves). Over time, and after perhaps trillions of "creation" events - the creates had become unbelievably complex - and that/those intelligences found a way that they could participate in their creations. There is a lot more to this (just think of how we create more and more complex diversions to amuse and entertain ourselves.) I think one might get an inkling of what could happen given trillions of years of experimentation and various creations.
Why would you assume the Universe was 'created' ... that it is the result of cause and effect?
Something must exist before it can change or be changed, act or be acted upon. Change is a "function of" the phenomenon of existence. Existence is the SOURCE of cause and effect, NOT the result of it. Existence is logically justified by a principle, not a process.
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They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and rendered sacred service to the creation rather than the Creator …. (The Bible book of Romans, chapter 1 verse 25)
Psalm 37: verses 10 & 11
2nd Timothy chapters 3 & 4
Dust it off and read it and seek God because, if you haven’t noticed, man is ruining the earth.
Hello everyone, I've spent a long time asking questions and looking for answers about where the universe came from, and after many years contemplation I have finally come to a conclusion.
Essentially I believe there exists a vast expanse of Dark Matter Space, where clouds of Dark Matter are in constant motion twisting and swirling often forming into whirlpools with intense gravity. It is when two of these whirlpools collide they generate a Gravity Vortex spiralling out forming a vacuum of space containing Dark Energy, this is the First Big Bang expanding under great pressure from the surrounding Dark Matter Space.
As the pressure increases, such that the Dark Energy becomes super-heated converting into Plasma, the second Big Bang takes place within the confines of what is now the universe, exploding out converting into Electromagnetic Energy as the building blocks for physical matter of Atoms, Molecules, Stars, Planets and Galaxies all under the influence of Gravity.
Residual Dark Matter and Dark Energy remains throughout the universe to influence the expansion at ever-increasing rates, with Black Holes driving the rotation of Galaxies and forming circular discs to create Ecliptic Planes providing a platform for Solar Systems to exist.
However, the discovery of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the universe is not the same as that of the Dark Matter Space expanse, what we have in our universe is a diluted form and will not behave in the same way since the Laws of Physics apply only to Electromagnetic particles.
It should also be remembered, that all Energy in the universe is constant, although it cannot be created nor destroyed it can be converted from one form into another form.