Is The Universe REALLY The Whole Thing?

Today I put the following on “Facebook” then “Twitter”:

“Just done a bit of research. Halpern & Tomasello (2002) estimated the observable universe to be 90.68 billion years across. But according to Ethan Siegel (2012) the Entire Universe is 14 Trillion + LY across. Yet, I wonder, is that "The Whole Thing"???”

Well, according to most sources, The Universe is supposed to be “everything” that Exists. That’s all matter, energy, galaxies, stars, planets and all space in-between.

 

Yet the “space” we can see is a sphere more than 14 Trillion light years in diameter. (Let’s not debate whether it’s a sphere or circle or whatever). So what we see is but a “sample” of that great explosion of matter that allegedly started with “The Big Bang”. How the Big Bang could spring from a quantum singularity or whatever is beyond me, but still…

The thing is, what We call “the universe” is actually an explosion of matter etc. that is still taking place so that said universe is expanding. As I say, this explosion has grown in size like (poetically) the opening petals of a flower, to beyond 14 Trillion Light Years.

That’s awesomely impressive. However, I still must ask, is there anything out there beyond this explosion? If there is anything beyond “The Explosion” then said explosion cannot be the Whole Universe! Or, as I said in my title, it cannot be “The Whole Thing”.

Indeed in my book Space has to be Infinite. And by the same token Time must be Eternal. There simply always has to be a “Beyond” and a “Later”. With Time, the future always beckons. In Space there is always somewhere else to go.

No doubt our Scientists and Mathematicians will come up with formulae to “prove” that Never Ending Space-Time does not exist. But my own mind cannot let go of the concepts of “further” or “more days”.

And here’s another interesting quotation, from “Vocabulary dot com”:

“The Cosmos is the sum total of everything — pretty big. It's hard to wrap your mind around the Cosmos, as it extends far beyond the Milky Way, or far-off galaxies, or even our own universe.”

Like me, this definition asserts that there may be something beyond our universe. Most sources, however, use “universe” and “cosmos” interchangeably. “Existence” is another synonym used for “universe”.

My point remains that there must be something beyond even the widest “Cosmos” you can imagine. I see, by the way, that “Parallel Universes” and “Multiverses” fall within the “Vocabulary Dot Com” definition of the “Cosmos”. There may, of course, be an infinite number of Multiverses.

You just can’t beat an Infinite Eternity. Nuff Said.

(PS – 11\12 – I read that there also happens to be an American tropical sunflower (of many colours) called “Cosmos” (a plant “genus”) native to Mexico. That matches my image of the universe expanding like a flower opening…)

Paul Butters

© PB 10\12\2017.

Quotes

(Picture Credit - We Know Your Dreams)

31\1\2010. Me: Stillness soothes the soul.

From Motivational Quotes on twitter -

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. - James R. Cook. 31\8\15.

17\2\16 - There is no beginning nor end because time is eternal. (Me).

From Motivational Quotes @David Roads -

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

From Motivational Quotes @David Roads - A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

(Me) MY Special Power??? Self-Delusion. LOL

From Inspirational Quotes @Inspire Us -

Bitterness is like drinking poison & waiting for the other person to die. -Steve Ostten

From Inspire me @lnspire_me -

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

(Me) For you people still in employment, especially management, remember: all that matters is that you meet the company objectives.

From Motivational Quotes @DavidRoads -

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

From - RevolutionalMinds @Revolutional -

As long as we are divided in the name religion, race, caste, gender, and nationality, there can be no true success for humanity. - Sadhguru.

(Me) For Future Reference: Never Reply to a Troll. (That must be what they mean by, "Don't feed the Trolls").

From Inspirational Quotes @lnspirationaI -

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard.

(Me) If you don't believe in God you go to Hell when you die, but if you don't believe in Allah you get your head cut off first!!!

From Mindset Dev @mindsetdev -

When you don't have to be careful about what you say, that's when you know you're with the right people.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. – Epicurus

From Motivational Quotes @David Roads

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. - Unknown.

From Mindset Dev @mindsetdev -

Practice the art of pause. Before you speak, listen. Before you act, consider. Before you judge, try to understand first.

(Me) Gotta declare: DO Like spellings that are simpler and sound like the word as it is spoken. Eg thru, yu, tho, luv....... Will ease them in gently, tho, to avoid too much strangeness.

Inspirational Quotes @Inspire_Us -

You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.

(Me) Iambic poetic metre - dee dum, dee dum, dee,dum - provides great "pulse"', but we do NOT have to be enslaved by it when writing verse.

(Me) This is Paul

Paul is fed up of all these "be like X" posts

Paul loves football, Star Trek, table tennis and other unpopular things with some

Don't be like Paul if you don't want to

Paul is quite tolerant

From Inspirational Quotes @lnspirationaI -

"Live truth instead of expressing it." - Elbert Hubbard.

(Me) Any critic who says something is wrong or incorrect has clearly lost the plot. 

Good criticism is about accentuating the positive.

(Me) Grammar is only there to stop us speaking and writing like Yoda. Not to bind us with pointless rules.

From Motivational Quotes @David Roads

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside. - Tenzin Palmo. (I later wrote a poem on this called “Quest”)

(Me) For me a poem is a statement or even a speech.

From Motivational Quotes @David Roads

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but of appreciating what we do have.

(The later ones are the older ones from my Facebook page)

12\6\16 (Me) Thinking you are concentrating? Then you are not really concentrating.

22\1\2017 (Me) Human skin pigment ranges from pale yellow\cream\pink to dark brown. There is no black or white. Some African tribes are charcoal grey, but not black. There is but one race, the human race. Beware anything that Divides us. We must Unite for the Common Good. Welcome to Planet Paul.

5\3\2017 (Me) Any audience or crowd is but a multiple of one. You just have to get through to that person. ;)

11\6\17 (Me on Facebook) When asleep and dreaming I sometimes marvel at detailed scenes and how my mind can do that. Just had a dream in which I looked at various pictures and pages full of words. Images of tables full of random objects etc. Just like real life except sometimes things can morph. 

That's it for now. 

From my Public Personal Journal - Careers Work etc.

(Picture Credit - The Balance - Restaurant Manager...)

Although I’ve been virtually retired for over ten years I still think about Careers Work and Teaching.

Only this morning I thought that if I made a comeback I would do more focussed, compressed Career Planning Interviews. Indeed I would aim to make them shorter to allow for Computing!

From the start I would say, “We are here to compile your CP”. Then we would go straight onto Career Aims and only collect information relevant to that. Usual checks on realism, decision-making etc. Diagnosis and Help as required. All Outcome Focused. Nuff Said.

As for teaching, I remind myself that a class does not have to be “quiet” in order to function. At Thorne, many teachers had their pupils simply copying up notes to keep them in order. They told me that the kids loved copying. Tactics, boy, tactics. Nuff Said. Out.