When I was a child we learned that the
Earth would one day be consumed when our dying sun exploded and consumed this
planet of ours. But we were always assured that by the time that happens,
humans would migrate to another solar system and take up as before. Millions of
years of human civilization (by that point) would be saved even though our old
home would burn to a cinder.
Now it turns out, that exodus will be
futile. In fact, if there is life on other planets, their exoduses from their
dying suns will be futile as well. Their millions of years and our millions of
years—the vast sum glory of life in this universe—will be utterly lost.
Then, thinking of moving to another
universe altogether? In a multiverse existence, we could slip through space and
time to another universe and find a suitable home there. Not so fast. That will
be futile as well.
All life on all planets, in all galaxies
and in all universes will eventually end. That’s if you’re to believe one
theory concerning the Big Bang. As you probably know by now, the Big Bang was
the beginning of our universe, when everything in was about the size of a cantaloupe.
I’m really not sure what size the universe was at the moment of the Big Bang,
but it was very, very small and very dense. After the Big Bang, energy shot
outward with such speed, a process theoretically known as “inflation,” and with
such forces that energy became matter and the universe was created.
Some physicists believe that multiple universes
are created during a Big Bang because of the sheer force of the “dark energy”
of the heavenly voice and the amount of energy bursting forth requires that
energy and matter coalesce. Physicists such as Neil
Turok posit that someday in the vast future, out universe, and all
universes, will pull back on their unfolding, reverse course and eventually
collapsing back down to cantaloupe size.
That means that everything, all life in all
universes will be crushed and extinguished. There will be no migration to
another planet, another galaxy or another universe. Everything will be compacted
and everything everywhere will be utterly lost.
And that’s really bad news. Sorry to ruin
your day.
As usual, this blog is also in aid of promoting my new novel, Mayhem, which could can read for free on Wattpad or buy at Amazon's Kindle site.
As usual, this blog is also in aid of promoting my new novel, Mayhem, which could can read for free on Wattpad or buy at Amazon's Kindle site.
