Thoughts on Buddhism

[Abracadabra]

Yet at the same time I cant help but think that a big crunch followed by big bang makes so much sense to me. The data we have doesnt NEGATE the posibility of an oscilating universe, at least for past bang crunch activity. For all we know the universe has "bang/crunched" fifty bazillion times and this time it isnt going to crunch.

Dont put too much weight on this post...Im just rambling something that I find interesting.

Those are very interesting thoughts. And the truth is we have no clue of the true 'geometry' of the universe.

Maybe instead of launching from a single point and re-collapsing 'backwards' to the same point, it might be some kind of a bi-directional thing. Maybe it's 'falling outward' toward another "point" where it actually collapses. A 'point' that we can't even comprehend. And then it bounces back from that weird state and ultimately rushes back to the original point.

Many years ago, long before String Theory was invented, I actually had an idea for a "Big Ting" (that was my name for it). I imagined that the universe is some sort of substance that was "struck" everywhere at once like a bell, and this is what created the "Big Bang". The reason I came up with this idea was to avoid the 'singularity' and the infinite density associated with a singularity type of Big Bang.

I was totally scoffed at for having such a "crazy" crackpot idea. But guess what? This is basically what String Theorists are now proposing with their "Branes" colliding to cause a "Big Bang". Funny how things work out over time. Maybe the universe never did start out as a singularity at all, maybe it started out as a "Brane".

The expansion is then seen as the Brane itself explaining just as any object expands when excited. I'm not sure how the String Theorists deal with the fact that the universe is accelerating in its expansion though. That seems to fly in the face of the "Brane Theory". But they're still considering that idea anyway.

However it happened I personally think it was magic.