Wednesday, November 01, 2006

The end of the Universe

Okay, So I am here to answer the questions of the Universe. I know you have all been dieing to find out! And I have a quote from someone in my Bible Study.
Does the Universe end, or go on forever?
If it ends, where does it end?
Is there intelligent life in the Universe other than us, is other life at all?

I don't intend to tell you the answers because I don't know (only that one guy does and we put nails in him). But, I do have it narrowed down to two theories.

1) Does the Universe go on forever? If it does, where does it end?
Theory A) Yes it does. But, I am going to say that there is an end to the universe, and that it can only extend on forever because at the all the ends of the universe exist either identical universes or alternate universes (slightly different from the last). Similar to the movie Pleasant Ville when they are learning about geography while they are in the TV show. Perhaps if there are alternate universes, you can progress through them and find something different from one universe to the next until it has become completely unrecognizable to you. This theory is not as clean cut as the next though.
Theory B) No, the Unierse does not extend on forever, the universe has a definite boundary. Experts (I just made this up, there are no experts) say that our galaxy is approximately in the exact middle between the center of the universe and edge of the universe and that we are orbiting at a speed of seven hundred and thirteen thousand Earth years per revolution of the center of the Universe. Experts (again, there are no real, consulted experts) also say that the Universe resembles the shape of a Recess Peanut Butter Cup, but it's hard to tell for sure because we are unable to view it from the outside. Nor do we have a camera that big. This means that we are somewhere in the Peanut Butter Region of the Universe. Scientists in the field continue to argue whether or not God and Mother Nature had been walking along, one with the peanut butter and one with the chocolate, when they had bumped into each other and accidentally invented the Universe as we know it today. Still, all the scientists who believe this to be true argue who had the peanut butter and who had the chocolate.
The beauty of this theory is that anything outside of the Universe is non-existent. Therefore, the need to explain this theory and why there isn't anything outside the Universe doesn't exist because your thoughts about what's are outside of the Universe (thinking outside of the box, if you will. Or in some cases thinking outside of the bun) must be in the context of non-existence in which case you thoughts become non-existent along with everything, or shall I say nothing that is outside of the Universe.

2)Is there intelligent life in the Universe other than us, is other life at all?
We can break this up into my two other theories...
Theory A -intelligence) Okay, If the there are alternate or identical Universes outside of this one, then of course there is other intelligent life. It at least has to exist in this part of the Universe of other our neighboring Universes. But it it is Uncertain whether or not there is other intelligent life than here on Earth in this Universe.
Theory B -intelligence) Yes, there has to be. I cannot explain why or give you proof, but I find it unlikely that we are the only living organisms ever to exist in the Universe. Unless... you are going along with the Creation story of the Bible, then we must be the only ones, and when God said to multiply and inhabit the Earth, he was also referring to to the rest of the Universe. That (I guess) seems the like the more likely and valid answer to me. But, how do we know that the Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks or the people of the Mid-Evil time period didn't secretly already send people off into the Universe and they have since then evolved differently into other more or less intelligent creatures like ourselves. How do you know?

The Quote: "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

2 comments:

scott said...

I thought for sure this one would provoke some thoughful, playful, joking comments of some sort. No? I guess not.

Steve O said...

I would say that the universe has no end... as God is in the heavens beyond the heavens beyond the heavens (I think thats how the bible puts it)... He is infinite after all.