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The Chosen Option

If you think of the greater universe as having high enough energy density of space to require matter to exist, and if all of the indestructible EEPs have always existed, then there has always been a balance between matter and energy. But in the ISU, the matter that exists is always being recycled as you will see in an upcoming post about defeating entropy. Right now we are going to make a choice between three possible options that could describe our universe based on the fact that it is expanding.

First let us take a look at the universe around us. If you look at our expanding universe you know that something is going on to cause the matter in our immediate viewing arena to be separating; i.e. observation tells us that the galaxies are all moving away from each other.

For the first option, is it practical to consider that expansion is typical of the entire universe? If so would it be a one time circumstance that can be backtracked for a finite period of time to an extremely dense initial state that has no explanation as to origin other than an implied Big Bang? That is one of our choices and that is where we are when we consider Big Bang Theory (BBT). BBT allows for the expansion to either continue forever, to slow and stop in place, or to reverse and contract.

The second option is related to the “reverse and contract” possibility of BBT. Is it practical to view our BBT universe as an endless cycle of expansion and contraction entirely self contained such as a perpetually cyclical big bang, big crunch universe?

And our third option; is it practical to view expansion as part of a greater universe where preconditions could account for the extremely dense origin of the expansion?

These are three of the many possible circumstances of our cosmology and all three require some undiscovered or missing physics in order to be understood. Beyond those three possible circumstances there are many other possibilities but each becomes more needful of more undiscovered physics.

If we limit our immediate thinking to those three, how do we decide which one is the most likely? I decided by considering entropy, the process of continually consuming useful energy until equilibrium is reached that leaves no useful energy at all. BBT is considered to end in complete entropy where life can no longer exist.

Since entropy is not yet complete there are two possible circumstances that are foretold by that observation. One is that it is not yet complete but will be, and the other is that there is something in the missing physics that says entropy is being defeated.

We have the slimmest of evidence to work with. The only evidence we have to go on is that entropy, if it will ever occur, will occur in a finite timeframe.

That brings us to consider time. Do we think time has always existed or do we think time must have had a beginning?

If time is finite then there must have been a beginning.

That brings us back to the same circumstance discussed above about the first of the three circumstances of our expanding universe, i.e. there was a beginning that can’t be explained as to origin or cause, but that can be backtracked over a finite period of time to when the initial expansion probably began.

If time is infinite on the other hand then the universe could have always existed.

Since entropy has not occurred, and since it would take a finite period of time for it to have occurred, then we are either in the finite window of time that it would take to occur, or it will not occur due to something in the undiscovered physics.

We have reached the point where we cannot know. This is the point where responsible speculation is the only avenue left to follow.

I choose to consider it more rational to speculate that entropy will not occur because there is something in the missing physics that defeats entropy. Otherwise either we are in the finite time window in which entropy will occur, or entropy would have already occurred. I am comparing my view of the probabilities and choose that if entropy was going to occur, what are the chances we are in the finite window of time? If there is something that defeats entropy in the missing physics I think it is responsible to speculate that time has always existed, that entropy has always been defeated by physics, and that the universe has always existed. This does not require us to be in any finite window of time.

Thus I eliminate the first possibility, “a one time circumstance that can be backtracked for a finite period of time to an extremely dense initial state that has no explanation as to origin other than an implied Big Bang.”

So that leaves me to decide between the second option, “is it practical to view our BBT universe as an endless cycle of expansion and contraction entirely self contained such as a perpetually cyclical big bang, big crunch universe”, or thirdly, “is it practical to view expansion as part of a greater universe where preconditions could account for the extremely dense origin of the expansion?

I quickly conclude that the second option, a cyclical big bang, big crunch universe would have one special problem that the third option would not have. That is entropy of a different kind. It has to do with the perfect balance that would be necessary in order for the cycles to be infinite. Without that perfect balance each crunch would not pull back in all of the energy released by the previous bang, so the next bang would be composed of slightly less energy than the previous bang, and eventually there wouldn’t be enough energy pulled back by the crunch to cause the next bang. Then the universe ends in that last feeble big crunch, unable to bang again.

On this basis I eliminate the second option leaving me with a cosmology based on the third option, “is it practical to view that expansion as part of a greater universe where preconditions could account for the extremely dense origin of the expansion.”

This is the option that can be developed into the Infinite Spongy Universe cosmology. Saying yes to the third option says that the missing physics, a fact of life for all three options, will include physics that will defeat entropy which cannot be defeated by the first two options.

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