From nothing to everything and back

 

The prevailing theory about the beginning of the universe is that there was a big bang when everything expanded out of nothing, or at least an infinitesimally small spot. So if that is true, then everything at one point came out of nothing, or close to it.

 

And at any point in the future, all of everything is still contained in that nothing, or close to it, like a mighty oak that came from a small acorn.  You couldn’t get that mighty oak back into the acorn, yet it is true and undeniable that the mighty oak came from that tiny acorn.

 

I think the universe is like that.  We cannot put the entire universe back into the compressed entity that caused the great expansion, but it is undeniable that everything came from that tiny spot.  So what if that tiny spot exists everywhere?  Like the mighty oak drops an acorn and a whole new mighty oak emerges, and it in turn grows and spawns, and so on. 

 

 The universal analog would be that the universe replicates itself as it gets to maturity.  But what is maturity in the universe?  Perhaps it’s when a star feeds on itself and compresses and compresses until all it can do is bust out.  Like a black hole is the tail end of the inverse expansion is the blasting out, which is the end of its compression.  

 

Imagine if we are racing back to the beginning

 

Hubble observed that the universe appears to be expanding faster.  But what does that mean?  If what is being observed is the farthest most edges (I use that word only in this context) of the universe is it not possible that we are catching up to where the universe had been in its faster than light expansion and in fact we are seeing how fast the universe was traveling everywhere way back when but it has been slowing ever since to the point where the current speed of light is average speed that we can detect at this stage in our eternal/perpetual history.  That might mean that the universe did travel at speeds faster than the speed of light as it filled out a void, and once it was filled (and I use the word filled only in this context), then after that it goes everywhere where observers are and is seen at a slower speed.

 

One question for the current school of thought would be how much faster the universe goes.  Can it exceed the speed of light, and could that mean that as we look out at the increasing speed we are approaching, the infinite speed that the universe may have traveled at its outset?  Perhaps, but there could also be another explanation or supposition.  What if there really was no big bang, and the universe is capable of having connections to anywhere in an instant? Of course, those conditions might require us to have more sophisticated tools one day.