A bit of a random thought...
My theory is that because reality exists at all it must always have existed in some form. I can demonstrate this by asking you to conceptualize a time where there was nothing. Absolutely nothing. And now what? The entire Universe springs from nothing? I find it more likely that the substance of the Universe is eternal and timeless. That while it may have been unrecognizable as the universe we know, it never failed to exist and then appeared. It had to have always been here. Maybe it was an atom-sized mega blackhole that exploded in to the Big Bang or maybe it was a God (or both (or anything in between)). But either way the substance of the Universe was always there in a blackhole or a God.
If the Universe is eternal, then it has no begining and no end. It may contain finite matter, but that matter/energy has never failed to exist. It always exists. While we tend to think of "forever" as a really really long time ahead of us, we forget that it also means a really really long time behind us (infinitely long). My own personal theory is that concept of linear time is meaningless. It only means something to us because our perception of time is limited. But in a Universe that always is, has been, and will be... any finite line is irrelevant. But suppose we keep our linear view for a moment. With an infinity of time to develop, could our consciousness learn enough about the Universe to create a world of living things like the Earth? We would certainly be altered along the way to completing such a feat, but given we literally have forever to sort it out, I can say the answer is actually guaranteed. Given a long enough time frame, every possibility will occur eventually.
So maybe there is a God after all... I mean if there is any universal being, it could have been shaping up for an infinity before our perception of life. Perhaps even such a God is us far in our future and now become the instrument of our own creation. Imagine the fun things you could do in a timeless universe with beings that only perceive lines. It is all relative to the observer. If there is a creator that swirlled matter in just the right way to create us on this planet, is that creator any less significant than one that is "more directly responsible" for the entire Universe? If the planet had a consciousness of its own, would that being be unimportant to us? Or if we were to discover that we are part of the sum of all intelligence in all the Universe and that some where in all Infinity we combine in a timeless universe to suddenly realize what clay reality really is... Would that matter? We have dozens of theories about what happens when all matter/energy combine, but what about souls? If you can't think about souls, then think about the infinity of knowledge gained in an infinity of time. Then decide if the ability to carefully select and travel through time and reality is possible to such a being. Now see what playground the Universe really is.
Bravo. In my own introspection on this topic, I imagine the finite universe as a bubble within the hand of God. He is able to predict the future precisely because all time is simultaneously available to Him. Conversely, only He is able to accurately predict the future, because He's the only One outside the bubble of space/time that He constructed.
ReplyDeleteBTW, scientists have ascertained the Universe is not infinite, because it is wearing down. Therefore it must have had a beginning. Therefore they postulate a Big Bang out of nothing, because to concede anything else would be to fall into the trap of recognising a First Cause creator (which I personally have no problem with).
And that begs the question of who/what was the First Cause creator creator... Unless we conclude that God simply is, has been, and always will be. So in my view God, Reality, and the Universe are all the same thing. What is the consciousness of such a thing/being? How could we define it? And then comes the question why do we care? If we can be assured the substance of the Universe / God is infinite and we are part of that creation then we are part of an infinite reality. We could not leave from it or become an un-part of it. With infinite time even a completely random Universe would perfectly recreate the pattern of a billion billion years eventually.
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