The Expanding Universe

The Expanding Universe

All must denigrate to its simplest form for it to become great

If the universe is expanding and matter cannot be created nor destroyed, thus the distance between all things is increasing. If I take a ruler from today, hold it outside the universe for 24 hours then return it to the universe, then compare the ruler of yesterday (ruler that was removed then returned to the universe, thus becoming the ruler of yesterday) next to a similar ruler of today. The ruler of yesterday will be smaller than the ruler of today. A mile measured with yesterday’s ruler will be greater than 5280 feet. On a smaller scale, when measuring the hydrogen atom, the distance between electron and proton will be greater. The space between the sub-atomic particles in atoms of today’s ruler are further from each other as compared to the ruler of yesterday. What is the significance?

The One Big Bang

When this universe was smaller, when it began, all things were closer together, thus the four fundamental forces were exponentially stronger. Knowing that matter is made of energy and energy’s influence is much greater when held in close proximity to other energies, the potential power when the universe began was at its greatest. But then an explosion happened and the tightly compacted energies reacted and the explosion occurred like a room full of mousetraps and ping-pong balls, brief (relatively speaking) chaos ensued.

As the universe expands, the distances between all things increases, the influence each particle has on another weakens until the distance between them becomes so great their attraction effectively becomes zero. The particles are now drifting in nothingness. Once particles worked together, now they are alone, drifters in an infinite ocean.

What if there are other universes? And those universes are undergoing similar transitions? Millions of universes growing so big they fade away.

After Silence, Little Bangs

All that is left is energy, existing only in and of itself, drifting in nothingness. (Is this dark matter – the expensed, neutralized energy?) Like a balloon filled with smoke and then pops. The smoke becomes undetectable, but it is there, only too small, for and singular to detect. All things that reach this point appear to be lost, gone, but it is there. Too week too far to attract another.

Fret not! There are other universes have natural laws that are both shared or, more importantly, unshared by our universe, how will the drifting particles of each interact? By chance two lost survivors of different lands crash into each other. Is this how new universes created? By random crashes of singular particles the fundamental forces impose their might on these strangers until the particles become masses and the masses become elements and the elements’ hotbeds of new stars and more. New entities unique unto themselves, entities not yet witnessed, modeled, nor theorized as we’ve known them before? Is this what Agathos meant when he said “...the sole purpose [of infinite matter] is to afford infinite springs.”? Matter is not infinite but the cosmic dance never ends.