Post by Original Admin on Sept 18, 2004 21:31:05 GMT -5
All,
I was thinking this morning (god forbid) - but I think that what I thought made some kind of sense, but without answering anything really.
I subscribe/believe in Big Bang theory, as much as I can understand it that is.
I believe that all the matter in the local universe, and the structure of the local universe came from a large explosion about 15 Billion years ago.
I theorise that our time frame is derived from/created by the speed we are travelling away from the center of the explosion. Thus if we were to jump off the planet and travel back towards the source of the explosion we would slow down, this would make our seconds last a seemingly shorter period of time.
Anyway - thats another story - time dilation that is.
So - this big bang then.
Well, on bonfire night (Nov 5th over here) we have fireworks, and I like to get all the black powder out of as many "air bombs" as I can, and make a bigger airbomb, it goes down great, the noise is fantastic, and watching something explode like these home made fireworks do makes me thing like this. "well I live on what essentially is a fragment of that explosion".
Today I came to the conclusion - which I cannot disprove - that we all live on a peice of debris. Its not something new that I learned, Ive known it for around 20 years. Today though it hit home.
We live on a lump of cooling trash.
I had to repeat to myself the above statement to make it sink home. "We live on a lump of cooling trash".
So why I ask myself do I call where we live trash?
Because, thats all it is. Earth and all the matter around us including stars and black holes are just the burned out rubbish from an explosion. I dont think much of the particles of debris from my fireworks, infact I dont pay those particles any mind at all (unless at moments like this - when I use them as an example to describe something) - so why is earth and lets see - Proxima Centuri any different from a little bit of debris from my firework? It isnt any different.
So what comes next?
So theres this explosion - ok - many people agree with the basic concept of a big bang, it happened, and thats that. Scientists can delve into the event and the structure of matter at 30 nano seconds after the explosion began etc. Now this is great - I mean fantastic, science takes us to the edge here - well I **think** its the edge. But it gives me a question and this question is what this post is really about.
If I detonate my firework, I am spoiling my creation. After all - I spend a lot of time extracting the black gunpowder from the smaller fireworks to make the "big one". So
WHAT WAS IT THAT EXPLODED TO CREATE ALL THIS DEBRIS WE LIVE ON AND SEE AROUND US.
They call it the "Primeval atom" - but it was BIG.
and atoms are "Small"
I came to the conclusion that whatever was destroyed was a better place than this which we see. By what measure "better" I cannot say - I really cant say.
How can we measure "better"? More sunshine? No - thats derived from the trash of an explosion. Sunshine itself is merely a glow from the
***absolute cataclysmic destruction of a superior??? object***
What was it which died such a violent death and caused us lot to develop and find ourselves scrabbling around on its trash debris? Dont get me wrong - this debris looks quite nice, especially after being in a barrel for a few weeks
I'm trying not to knock what and where we are, but at the end of the day ***something*** was destroyed completely to provide the conditions in which we live, What the (swearword) was it? Poor little thing.
Trust me - It isnt good to be living on a cooling lump of debris hurtling through space at around 140,000 MPH.
Unless of course you tumble bits of that lump in little barrels.
Cheers all for letting me ramble.
I'm in one of those moods - I hope ive not said anything which isnt actually factual.
Andy
I was thinking this morning (god forbid) - but I think that what I thought made some kind of sense, but without answering anything really.
I subscribe/believe in Big Bang theory, as much as I can understand it that is.
I believe that all the matter in the local universe, and the structure of the local universe came from a large explosion about 15 Billion years ago.
I theorise that our time frame is derived from/created by the speed we are travelling away from the center of the explosion. Thus if we were to jump off the planet and travel back towards the source of the explosion we would slow down, this would make our seconds last a seemingly shorter period of time.
Anyway - thats another story - time dilation that is.
So - this big bang then.
Well, on bonfire night (Nov 5th over here) we have fireworks, and I like to get all the black powder out of as many "air bombs" as I can, and make a bigger airbomb, it goes down great, the noise is fantastic, and watching something explode like these home made fireworks do makes me thing like this. "well I live on what essentially is a fragment of that explosion".
Today I came to the conclusion - which I cannot disprove - that we all live on a peice of debris. Its not something new that I learned, Ive known it for around 20 years. Today though it hit home.
We live on a lump of cooling trash.
I had to repeat to myself the above statement to make it sink home. "We live on a lump of cooling trash".
So why I ask myself do I call where we live trash?
Because, thats all it is. Earth and all the matter around us including stars and black holes are just the burned out rubbish from an explosion. I dont think much of the particles of debris from my fireworks, infact I dont pay those particles any mind at all (unless at moments like this - when I use them as an example to describe something) - so why is earth and lets see - Proxima Centuri any different from a little bit of debris from my firework? It isnt any different.
So what comes next?
So theres this explosion - ok - many people agree with the basic concept of a big bang, it happened, and thats that. Scientists can delve into the event and the structure of matter at 30 nano seconds after the explosion began etc. Now this is great - I mean fantastic, science takes us to the edge here - well I **think** its the edge. But it gives me a question and this question is what this post is really about.
If I detonate my firework, I am spoiling my creation. After all - I spend a lot of time extracting the black gunpowder from the smaller fireworks to make the "big one". So
WHAT WAS IT THAT EXPLODED TO CREATE ALL THIS DEBRIS WE LIVE ON AND SEE AROUND US.
They call it the "Primeval atom" - but it was BIG.
and atoms are "Small"
I came to the conclusion that whatever was destroyed was a better place than this which we see. By what measure "better" I cannot say - I really cant say.
How can we measure "better"? More sunshine? No - thats derived from the trash of an explosion. Sunshine itself is merely a glow from the
***absolute cataclysmic destruction of a superior??? object***
What was it which died such a violent death and caused us lot to develop and find ourselves scrabbling around on its trash debris? Dont get me wrong - this debris looks quite nice, especially after being in a barrel for a few weeks
I'm trying not to knock what and where we are, but at the end of the day ***something*** was destroyed completely to provide the conditions in which we live, What the (swearword) was it? Poor little thing.
Trust me - It isnt good to be living on a cooling lump of debris hurtling through space at around 140,000 MPH.
Unless of course you tumble bits of that lump in little barrels.
Cheers all for letting me ramble.
I'm in one of those moods - I hope ive not said anything which isnt actually factual.
Andy