Oct 19, 2005 18:07
lately ive been so stuck on this universal, age-old question of how things came to be. not so much the big bang or creation theory because that doesn't seem very important in the grand scheme of things. since im not religious im going to base all this from the big bang theory. what existed before the big bang theory? its said that everything in the universe was densely packed into a ball the size of a baseball. all the planets, stars, meteors, etc that exist today were once compacted into one small ball. my question isnt whether the existence of the ball is true or if some higher being created us. my question is how did that ball come to be? what existed before that ball? how did the nothingness before that ball come to be?
also, the big bang theory states that the ball exploded and has been expanding outward ever since. another question of mine is what is beyond the expanding universe. basically our universe is stated to be an expanding ball. i guess it's kind of like a bubble gum bubble. its a sphere and expands constantly. what's outside of the expansion? what is the universe expanding into?
in the last scene of one of the men in black movies it starts out as showing earth and keeps zooming out until it shows our entire universe... and it's inside a marble. an alien is playing with that marble. the thing is that the whole idea of our universe being the size of a marble compared to what actually exists outside of ourselves is probably very close to the truth.
am i the only one who's ever thought about this kind of stuff? im thinking of doing something with astronomy. i have so many interests. astronomy. law. psychology. sports medicine. who knows?