A Living Universe

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-Overview-

The purpose of this thread is to state that it is possible that the universe is alive, and to discuss the implications of it or to discuss why you think it cannot be. I will give various points to support my theory in different posts.

A WORD OF WARNING: BE PREPARED TO READ A LOT.

Citations will be denoted with (CTN [number]) and linked in the citations post with the corresponding denotation next to them.

-Contents-

Post #2: Thread rules.
Post #3: Black holes, worm holes, white holes, the Big Bang, and how they are related.
Post #4: Fecund Universes, and other Multi-verse theories.
Post #5: The requirements for life, and how our universe exhibits them.
Post #6: The death of our universe, and what will happen next.
Post #7: Citations

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-Thread Rules-

1: Keep it civil and polite. No one likes arrogance.
2: Keep it literate. This is extended discussion, people.
3: Cite your sources for any claims. If it is an original theory, then say so.
4: Please do not post about your beliefs on the subject without reading what I have posted first. It is pointless for me to re-state things for lazy people and I will not do so.
5: No complaining about "tl;dr." It's annoying and if you don't like it, don't post.
6: Do not quote the first page.
7: No massive quote towers please.
8: Read the Rules.
9: Be friendly, be happy, have fun. :]

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-Black holes, worm holes, white holes, the Big Bang and how they are related-

Everyone in here should know what a black hole is. For later purposes, I'll post what they are essentially. They are massive amounts of matter, collapsed into a tiny point with immense gravity. They last a very long time, consume gigantic amounts of matter very fast, and cannot be escaped once past the event horizon (the edge of a black hole). I'm also sure that most are familiar with the old theory that black holes have another "side" somewhere else. This theory, as it turns out, is far from being disproven. (CTN 1)The Einstein-Rosen Bridge (the form of a worm hole) may be the connector between two ends of a black hole, which are in different universes (more on this in later posts).

Theory states that black holes, because they are so powerful at the center, open a wormhole to another point in space-time, or another universe entirely. It is speculated that the other end of a black hole, instead of being another black hole, is actually a (CTN 2a and 2b) "white hole." White holes are the opposite of a black hole. They last a very short time, cannot be entered from the outside, and expel matter at a colossal rate.

There are two ways for white holes to exist, according to Einstein's Relativity. One is that a white hole was spawned in the big bang, and lasts up until the point in time in which it collapses into a black hole. There are no natural circumstances that could sustain this. The OTHER way for a white hole to exist is for it to be spawned on the other side of a black hole, as it collapses. It would expel all of the matter consumed by its counter-part in one tremendous explosion, then be gone.

What was the Big Bang again? A monstrous, gigantic, fantastic blast that created our universe, with all matter radiating from a single point. This lasted for a while, then stopped. The Big Bang is over. What does that sound like? It exhibits the same qualities as a white hole.

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-Cosmology and Fecund Universes-


-The cosmology of our universe-

If the Big Bang was a white hole, then where was the black hole that created it? The answer to that is implied in my last post. The black hole originated in another universe, or somewhere else within our own, though it is much less likely. Our universe has many constants, such as the speed of light, the planck length, and gravity. Why are those laws the way they are? (CTN 3)Multiple theories suggest that they differ between dimensions.

-Fecund Universes-

One theory of the multiverse in particular is of (CTN 4)Fecund Universes. For those of you who do not know the definition of Fecund, it means "fertile, able to reproduce." This theory essentially states that every time a black hole collapses, it creates a new universe with a white hole. Basically, a Big Bang for each universe. What is different about this from what I stated about white holes earlier is that (since black holes (CTN 5) vary in size and charge, and angular momentum) each universe has different physical properties than its parent. The speed of light could be much slower or faster in any different universe from ours, along with other constants. This is universal evolution.

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-The requirements for life, and how our universe exhibits them-

THIS is where my theory gets completely speculatory. There is no possible way to prove that this is true, though there is much that implies it.

(CTN 6)The requirements for life are 1: Complex Orginization. 2: Reproduction. 3: Growth. 4: Response to stimuli. 5: Energy/nutrition. 6: Evolution.

Our universe openly displays all of these except for number four, which is impossible for us, so tiny and insignificant, to observe. This is why this part of my thread is completely speculatory. Our universe obviously displays complex organization. There are star systems, nebulae, galaxies, black holes, and the particles that make them. All of these are organized in generally the same way, with gravity binding them together in similar patterns, and many of each type of thing in our universe.

Reproduction has been explained by the Fecund Universes theory, where our universe was created by another, and will create others.

Growth is also noted in astrophysics. Our galaxies are growing further and further apart, (CTN 7) dark energy growing stronger between them.

We can't know for sure if the universe actually eats anything, but it does (according to the theory of white holes) occasionally recieve it from another universe (could also be from elsewhere in our universe, but that would be like swallowing your own spit to keep from being thirsty). We do know that without energy, our universe would not exist.

Evolution has also been explained by Fecund Universes. To rehash, universal evolution happens when a universe is born of another, since the black hole/white hole that created it cannot be of the same size as its predecessor (that would mean that the entire parent universe would have to be sucked into a black hole and come out in the new universe).

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-The death of our universe, and what will happen next-

There are theories aplenty about how our universe will end. Some say there's gonna be a big slow (least likely), and the universe will never stop expanding, slowing down but never stopping. Some say that there's gonna be a big crunch, where all matter in the universe reforms into what it was before the big bang. One theory states that we're accelerating, driven by dark energy and will never stop expanding. There is a combination of the Big Crunch and the "Big Rip, " where the universe will condense into several super-galaxies that will never stop moving away from each other, and condense into several black holes, which will eventually collapse. What happens after?

I think that our universe will go on to spawn many others, perhaps it already has. It will die, stretching out and growing thin like an old man. We are not part of the first universe, and there will be infinitely more.

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-Citations-

CTN 1: Einstein-Rosen Bridge, Wormhole.

CTN 2a: White Hole. 2b: Possible sighting.

CTN 3: Multiverses and differing physical constants.

CTN 4a: Fecund Universes. 4b:Lee Smolin (see section 2.1)

CTN 5: (see section 2.1): Black Hole Angular Momentum.

CTN 6: Requirements for life.

CTN 7: Dark Energy.

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