An Infinite Universe

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. 

Theory of Cosmic Evolution

Being from Kansas issues about Evolution are commonly on my mind.  Not because I really have any doubts that evolution works or that statements like "God put the dinosaur fossils in the earth to test our faith" to be absurd... But mostly because its facinating.  On one level it obvious that the creatures of the Earth of closely related and yet on another level the mechanic of evolution (slight variations over millions of years) seems not quite right.  I don't have the answer, but I do have a concept...  The condition of DNA replication is the lifeform itself not the individual species that use it.



All living things on this planet have DNA and cellular structure that replicates to create larger organism with traits and abilities... DNA is therefore highly adaptable.  Inside DNA is all the complexity of all life.  The codes to everything are contained within.  DNA itself is a mechanism to create our type of life.  DNA can survive in a multitude of forms.



I imagine then that the whole Earth is common DNA organism of many parts and the instict to survive goes beyond each species but to the whole survival of DNA.  For as long as there is a single replicating strand... life could conceivable repopulate an entire planet.  Perhaps someday our planet will be smashed by rock large enough to shatter the world and piece of our world will spin off to then someday smash in to another warm rock.  Will then we seed that world with our bacteria? Will that world grow to be not too much different than ours?  Maybe it will be dogs that develop large brains and opposable thumbs, but regards our DNA will spread and follow similar design criteria...  Maybe our world was seeded in the same way... and there are other planets out there with DNA based development.  They will be grandly different, but I bet we will be shocked at the similarities.

A brief theory of Time

If we think of all Time as an ocean where all "moments" are like individual water molecules, then living any moment (any *possible* moment) is only a matter of putting yourself physically in the right place of the time ocean.  Each adjoining moment is related to other so by hopping from related moment to the next you create line the forms what we individually perceive as a time line.  Exactly which moment we jump to is mostly likely defined by probability.  Like a current of electrons flowing in a large conductive media we flow through the time ocean.  Our perception is of where we've been and vague idea about where we're going--a line.

Now the number of possible paths is infinite (or so large as to be nearly infinite).  Do we each have out own lines?  Is my past unique to the path I took and no other consciousness has followed me here?  Or has an infinite number of "me's" followed me to this point and now we're all branching off in the many possible directions?  Or does this universe blaze a trail through the ocean that we all share in?  With perhaps many other universes doing the same?

If I could go back and find the exact time ocean moment of my conception and prevent it, I could conceivable have no impact at all, for what I have more likely done is jump to a different moment where I was not conceived.  However, in the great time ocean I am still born somewhere... and so I can be in a moment where I don't exist.  Interesting...

So to follow this analogy a further, time flows like a current.  What induces Time Current?  If time itself conforms to some of the conventions of Matter, then perhaps there is "time gravity" and "time attraction".  Perhaps them certain possibilities in the time ocean are more nodal than others... perhaps they force many currents to them, making them difficult to undo.  In this definition they truly could not be undone... but only "not experienced" to that observer...  which isn't quite right.  If I placed myself in to a moment where I did not exist I would not have made my personal experience unobserved... I would have still seen it in the other moments.  But the moment I was in would be without my past influences...  The "Wonderful Life" syndrome.

An interesting side effect of this could be everlasting life... hehe... What others perceive as my death may only be their observation in their own moment... I exist in a multitude of other moments.  In fact I am dead and/or dying in a multitude (perhaps an infinite number) of other moments right now.  However, my observation goes on in others.

The Garden of Eden

I was pondering the other day and thought I'd capture the ponderance...



I was thinking about the Garden of Eden and if death occurred there.  I find it hard to believe that all of creation was undying and everlasting prior to Adam and Eve mucking it up.  And even if it were, why punish all of creation just because of a couple of dumb humans?  So my premise is that nature was as it is today in the Garden of Eden... the natural order of renewal and death already established and that Adam and Eve were a part of it.



So what really happened with the Tree of Knowledge?  It couldn't have just been about sex--at least not entirely.  What I thought of in my ponderance wasn't carnal knowledge but simply the knowledge of life and death.  Prior to this awareness, Adam & Eve only knew that life "was" and that the Sun rose and set.  Living in complete harmony in a system designed to be perpetual.  Certainly the cycle of life went on all around them.  Perhaps God kept them from being part of the food chain, perhaps not.  Is the deer constantly fearful of being eaten by the lion?  Or does it just *live* in its moment of food, sleep, mating and raising offspring.  The moment of death would be fearful for certain, but is the deer aware of this?  Is not knowing something of a blessing?



To follow this thought to the end, I would think that the Tree of Knowledge made Adam and Eve aware of the cycle and then somehow made them seem not a part of it.  The very thoughts we have of being external to nature and not part of the cycle are our gated buttresses keeping us out of the Garden today... I think the knowledge Adam and Eve discovered was self awareness and the perception of our own deaths.