I must watch too much TV, saw a documentary about infinity and all the reasons why no one knows what it is or if it exists and I do have an opinion on the matter, so of course have to present it.
Let’s start with some basic knowledge and extrapolate from there. Infinity is a synonym for endlessness of volume, or space, and numbers. There’s always a larger number. There can always be more of something. Where the argument arises is when we leave the conceptual and tackle the physical. Is Space infinite?
Before starting in on that, I want to disqualify Eternity as being the same as Infinity. Eternity is the idea that Time never stops, but apparently it was stopped before the supposed Big Bang that started everything in motion, because Time, you see, is Motion. It’s the same thing.
Astronomers have found that the Universe is expanding, galaxies are moving away from each other and the farther away from us they are, relatively speaking, the faster they’re moving and the furthest away from us are moving so fast that light from other stars can’t catch up with them. This is the explanation given for why our sky isn’t a blaze of light even though there’s so many galaxies of stars that they overlap each other in the sky, over distance. Since velocity in space is relative. we’re also moving at the speed of light away from the furthest galaxies, so the light they give off can’t reach us any more than ours can reach them.
The description given for this Expansion of the Universe is that it’s like a loaf of raisin bread that’s rising before baking. As it rises and expands, each raisin moves farther away from the others, raisins being analogous to galaxies, and the rate of expansion is greatest at the limits of the Universe. So they say.
But this isn’t right. It isn’t the galaxies that are moving, at all. It’s Space that’s pushing them apart, from all appearances. Back to that rising loaf, it’s the dough that’s expanding because the yeast in it is generating gas pressure and it’s the gas pressure that’s pushing the raisins. If Space isn’t expanding, galaxies would be drawn to each other by gravity, but the expansion of Space is strong enough a force to overcome the weak force of gravity. It’s also true that because gravity is a weak force, comparatively, that galaxies at a sufficient distance from each other are outside the range of any pull from a neighbor. They do collide when they come too close, but that’s another subject.
Now we come to the point where we totally lack knowledge. Why is Space expanding? We see those distant galaxies going faster and faster until they can’t be seen because their light can’t keep up with the increasing distance, so it must be true that Space really is doing this, right? Space must be filled with some sort of Strange Energy that’s pushing the galaxies apart. Right? Wrong. Sorry, but I’m certain our astronomers are wrong about this.
The innermost galaxies of the Universe, those toward the center, are not moving as fast as the outermost ones, which approach or are at the speed of light. These latter ones essentially leave the Universe relative to us. Keep this in mind as you read on.
“In our Universe”, and note that I put that in quotes, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Therefor we believe that the speed of light is an Absolute, a limit beyond which nothing can go. Now look at all those billions of galaxies going faster and faster. Does it make sense that some invisible, undetectable force is doing this to the entire Universe in apparent violation of the laws of Gravity? Occams Razor says there’s a simple answer, and here it is:
Our Universe isn’t being pushed apart from within, it’s being pulled apart from without. It’s matter that defines space. Space can’t exist without matter to give it dimension. Space can be bent, warped, twisted and it’s matter that does this because matter generates gravity and gravity bends space.
There can be only one cause for the Big Bang, which is that space is a vacuum that requires matter. We know that the Universe is a disc, shaped just like most galaxies and solar systems, and surrounded by space. It’s the emptiness of space that’s pulling at the Universe. I’m not a mathematician so I can’t express this mathematically. Philosophically I feel this to be true. Matter is attracted to space and this is probably a function of gravity. After all, it’s matter that determines what space is.
We know that if a black hole, and the term is only a euphemism, absorbs enough matter it will explode into a massive release of pure energy. Which is what the Big Bang was. Can it be that our Universe is being pulled back into a black hole in space? That space itself is a black hole surrounding the Universe, in that it has the quality of sucking in matter? We wouldn’t be able to see it and if there’s a way to detect such a thing, we haven’t found it yet, but this concept is no more far-fetched than the “Ether” that was a widely held belief until modern times or the Dark Energy that’s replaced “Ether” and is just as ephemeral.
When the matter of the Universe has all disappeared into this black maw, does it draw together until it explodes into such a release of energy that it forms a new Universe? Everything cycles, everything. That’s the most basic rule of all nature.