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Note that I am not a scientist, though I have always considered myself of scientific thoughts. I am not an astrophysicist though I wanted to be an astronaut for 14 years of my life and was very good at physics during my teenage-hood. Notice that I might not be a psychic, but I did have a vision, an epiphany of how the universe might function in relation to the "Big Bang" and the creation of galaxies. Maybe even the universe, who knows. It might not be 100 % accurate, as there is no way that I can prove it, but then again can anyone really prove GOD? Don´t worry, I am not an atheist. What I am trying to say is that we don´t need to prove God to believe in him right? It is just something we feel deep inside, call him/her whatever you want. I just believe that there is the small possibility that I could have a point here, and I want to be able to share it with whoever reads this.
Okay, so I was at my neighbor´s house helping her backup her computer, and while 2 years of her schoolwork and other things were backed up, I decided to turn on her television and watch something productive. I ended up in one of my favorite channels, which is the Discovery Channel, and there was a show called "How the Universe Works" on. It was an episode that explained how meteors or asteroids were joining together through gravity to form planets. Which one exactly? I have no idea because that is when I had my first epiphany this week in relation to this subject. "Where do we come from?" As a specie I´ve heard this question so many times, and that is when it hit me. Oh how right Moby was with his song: "We are made of stars". We truly are! The asteroids and meteors had to come from somewhere right? Probably other bigger bodies of minerals and other elements that could have come from: Other stars, satellites, and even other planets.
Galaxies collide ones with others sometimes causing a dance of destruction. At the end it becomes a bigger Galaxy once settled and this we can see in nature all the time. When there is a lot of tiny droplets that join together it just becomes a bigger one. The organisms in those separate droplets of water join and become a microscopic ecosystem of these organisms. You can relate this to how Earth was formed, and this would explain how much variety of living creatures you can find in our home planet.
In those collisions everything could become tiny particles of stellar dust. Imagine a planet such as earth exploding in tiny particles in which some of those particles contain DNA from different organisms that once belong to different species. Imagine another planet that had only plants, another that only has felines, and so on. All of these turned into dust in one of these destructive dances, and stuck into asteroids and meteors that started crashing ones with others to form planets. Awesome no? Well this is not as amazing as what I am about to share next. So according to the series, some of these asteroids had mostly ice on them. Which means that at some point wherever that asteroid came from, there was water, and in that water there were organisms, because apparently this is the concept that scientists keep in mind if they consider thinking about life in other planets. It seems that for there to be life there has to be water, so if there is water, there might be signs of life. I think I actually suggested this to one of my Biology teachers when I was 13 years old during recess and she looked at me only to tell me that there was no way that was possible. Why? Because a book said so? My assumption was that if we were 3/4 water and our planet was too, why did we have to limit "living creatures" to be like us rather thinking that let´s say if Jupiter is mostly Gas, that the consistency of the living creatures there, could be less dense than us per say? Well her answer was no, and I am pretty sure she thought I was nuts. Then again since then we´ve lost 1 planet and gained 4 planetoids. Who would had guessed right?
So back to the icy asteroids. Electromagnetic fields created by a rotating core generating a type of energy that we are all familiar with: Gravity! This invisible, and yet so powerful energy that keeps us from floating into space, which would be very inconvenient since we need the oxygen to live and there is none in space, starts pulling asteroids towards that core and forming the young planet. The core being so hot, would melt the ice in some of those asteroids and therefore giving life back to those organisms that were probably in hibernation mode. And well then we know the rest, from there to plants, invertebrates and other microscopic organisms, to dinosaurs, vertebrates, insects and yeah, us.
Nice, so now we have a little blue planet, with enough water to create life, and tons of species that are so different ones from others evolving and adapting into what we have now as home. It is technically like a gigantic puzzle with bits and pieces from all over the cosmos. Wow, I´ve never felt so extraterrestrial in my life as of a couple of days ago when this idea hit my head. It is okay, we weren´t alive back then, or where we? Think again. Thanks to a very cool scientist, one of my favorite characters in history actually, we know that energy cannot be destroyed, it can only be transformed. Very easy example: Water! You can apply energy to it, let´s say heat, and evaporate it, it will become gas. It is still the same components but in a different presentation. This is applied with EVERYTHING we see in life, though I should say existence because it is way beyond life as we know it. I believe that information can be coded into the DNA of an organism, have this organism evolve and then get to a point of decoding this information as the organism reproduces. Basic biology right? What happens if you go back to the origin of the origin, of the origin. We have information from existences in other planets, other parts of the universe, it would totally make sense. This is very easy to explain with an example. Pretend you have a computer with tons of different information: Your personal information in some files, your school information in another file, your music in another, your photos in another. Let´s pretend you back up each file in a different USB drive. Lets pretend that you loose those drives in your room and you find them at different times. You grab one and pass the information to a new laptop you bought, later you find another USB drive and pass that information again to the same new laptop, and so on. Now you have a New Laptop with your old information. I feel this is how DNA works and passes on. This would explain why not only the physical traits of a person passes to their offspring, but also their behavior, and other things that can´t really be taught. There are cases in which the children don´t even meet their parents because they have passed, and then again they like the same career, or have gestures that you might think they had copied from that parent but without even meeting them. I´ve seen it, and I have also lived it. It is not my fault that not only was I drawn to Astronomy when I was a kid, but I was fascinated by genetics as well, let just say that it is rather entertaining.
Okay, now I have an idea of how life was created and how it came to be. Now I don´t mean to mortify anyone that believes that Adam and Eve were first and bla bla bla. I also went to church as a kid and grew up with all these biblical stories. I do have to confess that to me, it doesn´t make sense that religion and science are two different entities. I´d rather think that the religious teachings are more like an artistic form of explaining what happened scientifically with words that won´t sound as harsh maybe to some people. Some people can take the truth directly as is, and some others need to hear it as a story, and that is all okay. In a way, I am opened to the idea of how a story can embelish something and as an example I would compare that maybe that big Asteroid with the magnetic core was "Noa´s Arc" and that is how organisms from different species joined together into a voyage where there was flood by the asteroid´s ice melting, and all of that. Yes there are bits here and there that may relate to stories of creation. Who knows, we all have the same DNA and all share the same original information on creation. The way we decode the information, well that is a different story. You see E=mc2 (Energy = mass * speed of light squared) and I see (Event = Memory Created twice) welcome to real time travel! Okay, that is subject for another day, another conversation, and another post. The point behind this last concept has been that, we all have the capability to decode the genetic information within ourselves, but not all of it. Some see the glass half full with water, some may see matter pulled by gravity and taking the shape of it´s container until energy may be applied. Same thing, different views, different information.
So now we know, we are all made of stars... Now what?
Well, what happened to those stars? Ah well, they could have collided from different galaxies as explained before or, just the big bang. Ah but that wasn´t all the Epiphany I had!
Later during the week, I decided to take some time and watch the whole series on Netflix. I knew it had been there for a while, but I thought it was going to be your typical space documentary that I had seen so many times before until I saw a bit of the content while at my neighbor´s house.
One of the episodes started talking about the black holes. I had heard about the black holes for a very long time. When I was young I used to read a lot of scientific magazines and was terrified about the idea of being sucked into one of these cosmic monsters, that I just decided to avoid touching the subject. Later as a big fan of the concept of time travel, I decided to believe that it could be a vortex into another dimension or disruption of time and space and therefore they could be cool. Oh boy had my brain done it this time. There I was, watching this episode on black holes and it totally hit me again.
Black holes are everywhere in space sucking the life out of stars, planets, and entire solar systems. It just devours everything on it´s path and guess what? There is a very big one right in the center of our Galaxy, or at least that´s what scientist think. I could relate of how this could be true and how it relates to the big bang.
As I was looking at the very cool graphics on the video, my thought was: "What if it is in fact a hole that functions as a worm hole, but which shape is different and the outcome is too?" And I saw the light at the end of the tunnel, literally!
We tend to see the black holes from a point of view in which you see a black circle of emptiness. What if we could see it from a different angle? When we see satellite images of hurricanes from out of space, we see something that visually could be compared to a black hole. There is a round center of emptiness (the eye) and the energy circulating around, which contains water, debris, etc. It seems to me that a black hole could be very similar to these, but in a spacial and way bigger scale. I think that like hurricanes and tornadoes, the black holes have a conic shape to which we have no physical visuals about, and that at the other side of that cone, at the very tip we have that minuscule particle of energy so very concentrated that when full it creates such an explosion that it creates a new Big Bang, Tadaaaaaaaa! So there people in Geneva, there is no more need for your particle collider, you´ll end up causing an unnecessary accident. Though I am pro-science, there are some things better left to the virtual simulators. Some powers are bigger than us and should not be tampered with. If we´ve learned something about history, it is precisely that. Anyways that is my clear opinion and should be respected. I don´t expect to be listened to in this matter, but at least I know I live far far away at the other side of the planet, you know, just in case.
So back to the blackholes, bigbangs, and my eternity hourglass hypothesis. Yes, I am not a genius and I came with that great idea all by myself. Crazy you think? Well imagine my surprise when theoretical Physicist and Author, Dr. Michio Kaku mentioned it at the end of the episode, I was like: "Hey, I said that before I even heard him suggest such idea!" Oh my God, am I getting back on track and using my neurons again? Ha!
Well you´ll have to excuse me if I get excited, but since I moved to the United States, I haven´t had any conversations of this nature with anyone and it was driving me crazy! I might not be a genius, though I did pass the MENSA exam some years ago. But I was very excited to think that I was on to something literally BIG!
Okay, so in my head I picture the black hole sucking the universe bit by bit and spitting it out through a very small opening in time and space, and then that center particle becoming a black hole itself and doing it backwards and all over again. Kind of when you open a bottle of soda and you place it upside down and into your mouth, you feel all the energy of the matter (soda) trying to go into that open space (inside your mouth) as an explosion right? Kind of interesting how something so vast can be explained with something so simple. I believe that existence works the same way, no matter the size of the entity, everything is a cycle and it keeps on going and going and going into infinity and beyond.
So I call this blackhole - bigbang idea: "The eternity hourglass hypothesis" as mentioned before. You can call it whatever you want, at the end I am not a scientist as mentioned before, I don´t think I am going to get any credit for the idea or concept and it really doesn´t matter, because there might be someone out there who has the title that empowers them to have the credit of such idea, and who knows, maybe already published somewhere and though I haven´t read it yet, it could be out there. I am overjoyed with my discovery and I confess I cried of happiness like 3 times in the same day. So what now? Well there is always more when you talk about the universe. After all, it is infinite right?
For the universe to be formed you need: Nitrogen, Helium, and Lithium, interesting combination of elements. I wouldn´t have even thought about those at all. Then again why would I? But you also need gravity. Without gravity, the later formed matter wouldn´t be attracted to one another and form our planets. Yup, but there is gravity in more than just the planets. The sun for example, also has gravity and this is what keeps the extremely hot gas from just dissipating into space. So gravity is very important, gravity pulls the matter towards it, what do you think could be pushing it though? After all we know that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction right? Or at least that is what I remember from physics. If this is true and so, what is the equal and opposite reaction of gravity? Does anyone know? Well I have a hypothesis, it´s the "dark energy". Yes, there is such thing, and I didn´t give it´s name to it. I don´t know if this has been discussed as such or not, I honestly haven´t read much about it, as a matter of fact, I haven´t researched much in the subject at all because I have tons and tons of thinks in my life that are drastically different ones from others and I would just be overwhelmed. I divide my life in stages. Some stages I am a musician, some others I am an illustrator, in others I am a communicologist, in others a health-care student, in others a researcher, but always a daughter-sister-wife-friend-homemaker. It´s just too much work. Anyhow, back to the gravity´s nemesis.
I had been hearing in the show that there was "Dark Matter" which I literally compared to a chocolate pudding at the beginning, maybe because I hadn´t had any dinner yet and I was hungry. Later I just decided to compare it with: Water being the dark matter, and a person floating on the water being "the matter". Dark matter is explained like something that is there but is not there. Like a force that keeps the cosmic bodies in place but separates them more and more. Think about it as a bubble that emerges from the bottom of the ocean, while it heads up to the surface, it keeps it´s round shape (Like a star or planet, and well you know the bubble has gas in it right? Just like a star). If this bubble actually crashes against another bubble (matter of the same type) It will combine, just like the galaxies would, but once it gets to the surface, where there is no more water (dark matter) it will just loose it´s shape and burst. It doesn´t mean that it is destroyed and disappears forever, it just mixes with more of the same to create an even bigger bubble (Welcome to the atmosphere little bubble). What keeps the bubble going up rather than down if the gravity center is in the bottom of the ocean? Well the gasses do, and there are lots of these in outer space. I´d like to think of space bodies like gas bubbles that are trapped in this "dark matter" that the only thing it does is to displace the place where the original object was, and since there is an original force that expelled these matter outwards, it just keeps on filling those gaps where matter previously passed through. Hmm somehow I felt like a time-travel epiphany was coming with this last sentence. I guess it will come back when it makes sense.
I guess for the moment I will conclude with the next concept ideas:
Life as we know it: In the universe we are like a giant fruit cake. Not everyone likes it but we are in it together, so DEAL WITH IT!
At the end we are truly all brothers and sisters, yes this includes animals and plants. So, why can´t we just get along and stop fighting?
About "the Eternity Hourglass Hypothesis" that I just made up: We all share one same consciousness, so I am sure that there are other people out there that might have thought about it, and this is why sometimes a person has an idea and not far after someone with the means (meaning financial freedom) does something to make it happen.
I believe that sharing is caring, and even though some people get in trouble for sharing, this is not worth anything for me if I keep it to myself. Here is a graphic I made explaining what I mean with this theory I had. I don´t know how to explain it otherwise. (Note that that emptiness where you have the hole from the "black hole" could be the "antimatter" and later the "matter" gets transformed into "energy" that bursts out through the "big bang" explosion and into a new cycle of creating "matter" again.)
Now, don´t consider this graphic as a "Theory" though I did write theory there. It was like 3 am when I was doing this and I didn´t think of the details, I just wanted to do it before I forgot the idea. For it to be a theory, I would have to apply the scientific method, and I can´t really experiment much into finding the riddle, so let´s just pretend for a moment that we swap the word "Hypothesis", as I have been referring to during the whole post, for the word "Theory" shall we? Thank you.
The other thing is: There is matter and there is antimatter. Supposedly once matter bumps into antimatter, there is no matter anymore... Could it be like the example I gave with the bubble bursting into the air? Who knows? At least hypothesis are cool, because they allow you to reach ideas and think outside the box. There is no way we´ll know in our lifetimes. In the mean time I feel like I cracked two of the big questions I´ve had in my life: "Where do we come from?" and "Why are we here?" I felt like I figured out that for life to exist on Earth there had to be the right combination of elements and organisms to become what we are now, but if this planet wouldn´t had worked, I am sure another would and we would be there because we exploded into billions of particles with our genetic information. The only thing would have been to adapt to the environment to which that planet developed with. And "POW"! That hits that theory of Extraterrestrial beings being us from the future. Well, space is measured in light years. Time travel can "only" be accomplished with the manipulation of the speed of light, so the "us" from the future (Them) are probably just the "us" that could have been if not here on Earth. Creepy, because I am not a big fan of extraterrestrials, but it does make sense. It is a bit illogical to think that there can´t be human variations somewhere else if there are so many specie variations of almost every living creature we know and just right here in our planet. I guess that would be subject for another blog post if ever.
I know some of you might think I am crazy, or that I am going cuckoo, well this if for you guys:
- "Visionaries and hard working people are what makes this world go round, that´s my story and I am sticking to it"
Who said this? I did!
Please remember to have a happy moment and multiply it by many times in your life. Life is bigger than what we think, to give that much of our time and energy to something that is not worth it.
Cheers and until next time.
Missha V
© 2014 by Laura "Missha" Vara. Some rights reserved.
Disclosure: Again, this blog post was made just so I could leave a print in my life that I had this great idea and I didn´t keep it to myself. I do not intend to change anyone´s life perspectives. I respect every religion and culture and though I don´t know the full expectrum of everything in life to know what could be offensive and what not, believe me when I say that if anything offended you, I am truly sorry. I believe that if you have the right to feel and think whatever you want and shout it to the world, so do I. I consider to be a good person that could do something great for humanity, and sometimes a vague idea can change the world, or just entertain those that feel bored. It really doesn´t matter if it is going to feel like something negative. It only matters to me if you see the best out of this. I like to believe that everything is possible if you truly want it to be possible, and if it can be productive, well even better.
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