The Anti-Solipsist

The physical world is composed of many things. But the basic four things are time, space, energy and matter. But really, at the bare bones, it's just space.  Time is just a function of space, hence space-time.  Energy is likewise just the interaction between space and time, and matter is formed as a function of energy (E=MC^2 and all that).  All of this matter, energy, and time (if we go back far enough) all came into existence during a process that we know next to nothing about.

This process potentially happened during what the current wise guys call "the big bang" which was really REALLY big. Like, it created the universe in about 13.7 billion years (think about how big the earth is to us, and it's been around for a bout 4.3 billion years. Now think how big the universe is), so yeah, pretty huge. Anyway, this big bang event happened before time ever started, in fact, the universe itself was cocooned in the tiniest thing unimaginable, that is, a singularity, but again, we can imagine what a singularity is (it's the thing at the center of a black hole, which in itself is the gravitational field surrounding a super-dense particle about as small as an atom, but so dense that it causes things around it to get sucked into its gravity well and not get out, even light), but THIS singularity was smaller than the average run-of-the-mill singularity, and more dense, and infinitely more important. The reason for this is the aforementioned BANG! which would have been much smaller had the singularity been bigger. (it's like, putting something pretty much indestructible under a pretty much unlimited amount of pressure, when it is really really small, so that the pretty much unlimited amount of pressure can reach unlimited so that it can create something that is unlimited in size and scope. I.e: the universe). Ok, so, creation, check, big explosion, check, time and space, check. But wait, you ask, why can't we explain or know anything about the big bang when you yourself just explained it all? You might ask, and I would be glad you did, because that's a good point. The reason is this. The theory of relativity that Einstein proposed WAY back in the day cannot and does not work the nearer we get to the beginning of the universe (which is why for many years, the world thought that there was no absolute beginning of time), the calculations he created just don't work, they unravel and give numbers that don't make any sense. So, they instead use something else, called quantum mechanics, that works really really well for things that are really small but.... it also operates on a few different notions that basically say that everything cannot be calculated to absolute authenticity and truth and that chance and uncertainty are at the basis of physics.

Right, so that basically goes directly against relativity (which had the goal of making everything absolute and measurable to a certain degree of accuracy and no degree of uncertainty). But here's the funny thing, Einstein was an important figure in the development of QM, in fact, he developed many of the equations and theories which started the whole bloody thing. Of course, he still believed that "God does not play dice" and so the whole uncertainty principle thing was kinda not his thing. But anyway, just so I don't bore you, here's the simple explanations. Relativity= measures big things, like a planet. Quantum Mechanics= Small things and everything else that relativity can't work with. So Relativity + QM= Theory of Everything I.e. String theory.

So, here's what's been bugging me. In the beginning, there was supposedly nothing. There had to be, because the universe cannot have ALWAYS existed, it just isn't possible. There HAD to be a definitive start, and before that, there had to be nothing. And if that is true, then the big bang theory is completely busto.

Here's why. Try to imagine nothing. Got it yet. No? Keep trying. No? That's what I thought. It's impossible. For those of you who thought you imagined nothing, your outta luck my friend, because you forgot that "true" nothing has no time or space. So, if you imagined any dimension (which you have to, because the brain cannot imagine something without a dimension. Even if you imagine a blank image, it is still black or grey, and still is 2 or 1 dimensional) So, you can't imagine it. So, if there is nothing, which has no time, or space, or dimension of any kind. Then how then could space and time just have miraculously appeared into existence, CREATING existence, then sparking a big bang which created the universe, if something cannot exist from nothing.

Let me back up here. There are two very important laws that need to be addressed here. One, is the Second law of thermodynamics, which basically says A) You can't go back in time. And B) the universe is getting crazier by the second. And of course, the law that doesn't need a name SOMETHING CANNOT COME FROM ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! And absolutely nothing had to exist, because something cannot come out of nothing. Something cannot always exist, something has to make it exist. (And if someone argues God, then tell me, where does he exist exactly, where does his time and space begin? Where does that eternal loop start? And if you say "well he doesn't obey the laws of physics, he created physics, he also likes ponies" then I say "Then how could he have acted if physics don't apply to him?)

So what if (and remember this is just a theory), the universe begins when YOU do.

Think about it.

When you look at a circle, it has no beginning, it only has where you enter the circle, and that is the beginning.  The point at which you leave the circle is the end.

Also, the universe as you know it would not exist without a very important thing called perception.

Now hold on a minute now. I am not saying that the universe revolves around you or any of that crap, all I'm saying is that it started with you, will end with you, and that's it.  There is no existence without perception.