Somewhat recently I became interested in reading up on the Big Bang, the creation of the universe, and where this whole cosmic train is heading. The Big Bang, well all scientists can say is that they have no way of knowing how that dot of matter came to be or why it exploded. The big minds of that field, like Hawkings, say that because they cannot possibly determine what happened before that all they can do is work on what happened since then. A lot of them are even agnostic, claiming that the Big Bang is proof of something, maybe not an intelligent ‘creator’ but creation itself doesn’t follow a logical premise so there has to be more to it than that.
What I wonder is what is beyond our little universe, and a more prominent question in my mind is why we are here at all. It doesn’t make any sort of sense for there to be a universe or for there to be anything. When you think about it in the large-scale terms why is there anything at all? Why isn’t there just a vast never ending nothingness? The idea of an intelligent creator, or even a catalyst for creation doesn’t make much sense. If the universe had any sort of logic at all there wouldn’t be a universe to begin with. Or maybe it’s some sort of rule that there mush be something, that the universe cannot just be an empty dead space.
Last night my little brother was telling me that he had to attend a seminar about how it’s important to preserve the oceans, about how it’s important to save the whales and such. I found myself laughing. I said that the sun will become too hot to support life on the surface of the planet after a billion years. After two the oceans are going to be boiled and eventually dry up. After the sun turns into a red giant in another few billion years then world will be utterly destroyed, as it sinks into the enlarged sun. Pretty much our entire solar system will be annihilated when that happens. After another few billion years Andromeda, a nearby solar system like the Milky Way, is going to crash into us and merge with our solar system, probably destroying all the cosmos we’ve charted. If we’re a space-race by this point we will probably be in great danger during this event. Assuming we live we’ll start to see a lot of the stars die out and turn into black dwarfs, after an even longer period of time we’ll witness the universe tear itself apart thanks to the law of thermodynamics. Energy will continue to burn as entropy increases. The end result will be a universe that slowly over time uses up all it’s heat energy and begins to degenerate into a frozen wasteland of atomic soup. The Universe’s continued expansion will result in space tearing itself apart as things decay further, after about a few trillion years, we’ll be in a cosmological dark age where even the supermassive black holes have died out.
Basically, in a long enough time line, we are cosmologically doomed.
There’s also a theory of a multiverse, an infinite sea of space between us and other universes that is filled with universes that are at the end and beginning of this cycle. Going on forever into the darkness of space. That our big bang wasn’t the creation of all that is but rather and sort of spark. Nothing lasts forever it seems, everything’s falling apart. Even space. Bearing that in mind, all this fighting for turf of this planet, is completely pointless. As a matter of fact, everything we do is pointless in the universal sense, not a personal one. Meaning that we are all wasting the fleck of time we have on a lot of things that are totally without purpose.
The point of living than, seems to be to keep on living as long as possible. Keep the race going, even though in the end we still might be doomed. If that’s indeed the point, to keep on keeping on till all the stars die out, than we’re not doing so hot in that regard. If in the grand scheme of things we’re all going to die anyway, than I don’t see the point in killing each other and acquiring tons of wealth. I don’t see the purpose for borders or fighting or arguing. The way I see it, we’re screwed unless people stop fighting over things that do not matter and start worrying about the one thing that does, survival.
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