Nothing & Everything – A model of the universe

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Nothing & Everything – A model of the universe

How big is the universe? How long has it been here? What makes it tick? When we attempt to construct a model of the universe we must ask ourselves these questions. I have always had a problem with the Big Bang theory. If the universe is expanding what is it expanding into? What was the state of “preuniverse” before the Big Bang and why did the “preuniverse” blow up? What is the “preuniverse”?

In this model the universe is assumed to be infinitely large. It is everywhere. It has no surface, no outside, and no center. There is only an inside. As a whole it is not expanding because it is already everywhere. It is not contracting because it is everywhere. It is infinite.

A volume that is infinite cannot change. It cannot go from here to there because it is already here and there. Because it cannot change an infinite universe has no uncertainty. It is everywhere with complete certainty.

With respect to how long has the universe been here I think that it has always been here and will always be here? There was no beginning and there will be no end. An infinite universe is just the way things are.

But an infinitely large universe of complete certainty that has been here forever is not compatible with our universe. Our universe changes. Change implies uncertainty. Where does the uncertainty come from?

In order to create change we need to add to our model something that has an equal probability of existence as everything but different. I believe that something is infinitely small. An infinitely small volume has no surface, no inside, and no center. There is only an outside. It is nothing.

An infinitely large volume is everywhere and has no uncertainty. An infinitely small volume is nowhere and has no certainty. Just as an infinitely large volume is complete certainty an infinitely small volume is complete uncertainty.

So we have two possibilities that are completely different. You can make a graph of certainty and uncertainty versus the size of the universe. Uncertainty would go from 100% to 0% and certainty would go from 0% to 100% as the size of our universe goes from nothing to everything.

Assuming that the amount of certainty and uncertainty are equal then if one part of the universe gains certainty then another part must lose certainty. And this battle between certainty and uncertainty is what makes the universe tick. Just as nothing and everything both exists all things in between exist also. But the parts of the universe in between nothing and everything are pulled by a tendency towards nothing and a tendency toward everything. They exist not as definite particles or “things” but as part certainty and part uncertainty.

Clay Gould

Nothing & Everything – A model of the universe

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