Before the universe existed, there was...

[chaslittell]

Before the universe existed, there was--life. Crazy, huh. Life evolves, and the infinite evolution of life is Creator. Once life attains Creator Status, it spawns new dimensions with new contents, including the ingredients for life, and the cosmic wheel turns again. <br /><br />I would like to be the first to nominate a design for the next creation, one where mirror topography is valid, so that gravity could be replaced by an accelerating expansion of the physical dimensions. Your dimensions expand (yes, including the ruler you measure them with) like blowing up a balloon, bigger balloons expand faster, and the accellerating expansion of surfaces into each other creates the illusion of gravity as inertia forces objects 'back in the seat.' I think the last creator tried to use this as a beta version of gravity, but that nice orbit thing just wouldn't play. The workaround seems pretty cludgey with all those particles and waves and strings and things (no offense M'am.)<br /><br />By the way, if this is "Ask the Astronomer," can somebody point me to "Ask the Astrophysicist?"

 

[eric2006]

That sounds a bit Mormon.

 

[harmonicaman]

<i>By the way, if this is "Ask the Astronomer," can somebody point me to "Ask the Astrophysicist?"</i><br /><br />We handle it all in here...<img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" />

 

[mooware]

<font color="yellow">Before the universe existed, there was--life. Crazy, huh. Life evolves, and the infinite evolution of life is Creator. Once life attains Creator Status, it spawns new dimensions with new contents, including the ingredients for life, and the cosmic wheel turns again</font><br /><br />Speculation, or do you have proof to back this up?<br />

 

[unlearningthemistakes]

<font color="yellow">speculation</font><br /><br />and no harm intended, the ideas are loosely tied... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>pain is inevitable</p><p>suffering is optional </p> </div>

 

[chaslittell]

I confess to being tongue in cheek, but the idea of evolving to creation is a fractal philosophy, kind of a meta-creationist cosmology, a comfortable model because it fits well. <br /><br />The evidence is evolution itself; unlike speculations as to "when time began", we can easily devolve life to its chemical beginnings. Things that have beginnings usually have ends, though this brings us back to topology, could life be a one-sided one-edged Mobius strip? My but I do ramble.<br /><br />Personally, on a more serious note, I subscribe to the theory of demise by intellect, that life evolves to the point that malfunctioning individuals can harness an advanced technology of the society to trigger oblivion, a future Bin Laden if you will, exterminating life with some doomsday mechanism. As many have speculated, this could explain why proto-organic molecules seem to be common in the cosmos, but we see no evidence of civilized aliens. It seems likely to me that mankind is on its last 500 years, perhaps a fraction of that.<br /><br />If we do survive our technology, possibly by spawning onto other isolated planets or space colonies, we will have proven our lineage worthy of survival (of the fittest.) If not, we are just another germ dying in a petri dish that will, eventually, produce a strain of life immune to the hazard.<br /><br />In my old age, I find myself less distressed by this than one might expect. It is a tribal characteristic to imagine your own clan "deserving" of God's Choosen status. My allegiance is to a higher order. I envision with confidence that our space-time dimensions will eventually produce the pedigree required for admission to the winner circle, be that Creator or not. The fact that my tribe doesn't appear to have the right path (from where I'm sitting anyway) is just incidental.<br /><br />What was the question again?