The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the observable universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The modern science world has accepted this to be true. 90 billion light years in diameter. That’s the size of our universe. To travel from end to end would take one traveling at the speed of light 90 billion years to get there. For just a moment, think about that. That’s insanely big. Mind-blowingly big.
The model describes how the universe expanded from a very high-density and high-temperature state, and offers a comprehensive explanation for a broad range of phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), large scale structure and Hubble’s law (the farther away galaxies are, the faster they are moving away from Earth). If the observed conditions are extrapolated backward in time using the known laws of physics, the prediction is that just before a period of very high density there was a singularity that is typically associated with the Big Bang.
So how did the universe get to the point where it became atom sized and eventually exploded in a “big bang”. One idea is that just as we discovered black holes, rogue black holes, and supermassive black holes, that these black holes eat up everything in the universe until finally there is only one left. Having nothing left to consume, the last black hole eventually starts eating itself, reducing itself more and more until it finally gets to the point of where it cannot be reduced any further and instead, explodes back out creating our universe.
One of the problems is correlating the size of our universe with the time it took to expand. Ninety billion light years in diameter in a matter of seconds. By now, most everyone is familiar with the Big Bang so there’s no reason to go into it. Except for the part that we know that with any “explosion”, as the shockwave expands away from the center it slows down due to external forces. But in the late nineties, purely by accident when scientists were trying to establish that we can determine the distance of an object by its brightness, it was found that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate. The accelerating expansion of the universe is the observation that the expansion of the universe is such that the velocity at which a distant galaxy is receding from the observer is continuously increasing with time.
It has been generally accepted that the accelerated expansion of the universe began back when the universe entered its dark-energy-dominated era, which was roughly 5 billion years ago. Staying within the framework of general relativity, scientists formulated that an accelerated expansion can be accounted for by a positive value of the cosmological constant, equivalent to the presence of positive vacuum energy. They call it, “Dark Energy”. It is sometimes called “Vacuum Energy” because it is the energy density of the empty vacuum. The cosmological constant has negative pressure equal to its energy density and so causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate. According to physicist Charles Bennett of Johns Hopkins University, there is no limit to how fast the universe can expand. Light travels at an unvarying speed of 186,000 miles a second. No matter how fast an observer is moving or how fast a light-emitting object is moving, a measurement of the speed of light always yields the same result. Einstein’s theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum still holds true, because space itself is stretching, and space is nothing.
E=mc2. Energy equivalent can be calculated as the mass multiplied by the speed of light squared. Similarly, anything having energy exhibits a corresponding Mass given by its Energy divided by the speed of light squared. The “Mass-Energy Equivalence”. On the most basic level, the equation says that energy and mass (matter) are interchangeable. That they are different forms of the same thing. Under the right conditions, energy can become mass and vice versa. Based on Einstein’s equation E = mc^2, the amount of energy added is relative to the mass gained by the proton multiplied by the speed of light squared. In other words, a lot of energy is converted into a relatively small amount of mass.
Outside of the atom the particles often move very quickly. Nearly the speed of light, which is very fast (around 300,000 kilometers per second). Subatomic particles are divided into two groups, Baryons, and Leptons. The faster the relative velocity, the greater the time dilation between one another, with the rate of time reaching zero as one approaches the speed of light(299,792,458 m/s). This causes massless particles that travel at the speed of lightto be unaffected by the passage of time.
What about particles that move faster than the speed of light? An Italian experiment has unveiled evidence that fundamental particles known as neutrinos can travel faster than light. A Tachyon or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Most physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics. No experimental evidence for the existence of such particles has been found.
In special relativity, it is impossible to accelerate an object to the speed of light, or for a massive object to move at the speed of light. However, it might be possible for an object to exist which always moves faster than light. Or is it? Could it be that we (human race) are prejudiced by our naivety? We humans are dominantly a “show me” race. We need to “see” before we believe. And does this “prejudice” prevent us from finding the truth? We dig and dig until we find what we accept as the smallest measurable point and stop. And why not? You can’t measure what you can’t see.
Quantum physics explains that there are limits to how precisely one can know the properties of the most basic units of matter—for instance, one can never absolutely know a particle’s position and momentum at the same time. One bizarre consequence of this uncertainty is that a vacuum is never completely empty, but instead buzzes with so-called virtual particles that constantly wink into and out of existence. In fact, a vacuum is not that empty, since due to the Heisenberg principle, virtual particles are created and destroyed in pairs. These virtual particles often appear in pairs that near-instantaneously cancel themselves out. Still, before they vanish, they can have very real effects on their surroundings. For instance, photons—packets of light—can pop in and out of a vacuum. When two mirrors are placed facing each other in a vacuum, more virtual photons can exist around the outside of the mirrors than between them, generating a seemingly mysterious force that pushes the mirrors together.
A vacuum of space is full of charged quantum particles and magnetic fields. It is full of particles and anti-particles that are “whizzing around” and crashing into each other. Virtual particles are indeed real particles. Quantum mechanics allows and indeed requires, temporary violations of conservation of energy so one particle can become a pair of heavier particles (the so-called virtual particles), which quickly rejoin into the original particle as if they had never been there.
So, this brings me to my theory that the Big Bang never happened. My theory rests in that our existence, our universe, is tantamount to a virtual particle that, just as in a vacuum, has temporarily slowed down from traveling faster than the speed of light. But, just like the brief flashes of light in a vacuum, it is speeding up again and will eventually break the speed of light. Anything moving faster than the speed of light breaks up into millions of subatomic particles and no longer has any mass. But speed itself, or the ability to maintain speed, is unstable. Thus, there are times our universe and everything in it are traveling at varying rates that are all faster than the speed of light. Likewise, there are moments where it slows down and moving slower than the speed of light. The moment our universe, or whatever our universe is contained within slows to lower than the speed of light, it, and everything in it begins to gain mass. As everything starts to gain mass they start to “stick” together or merge. As they merge, the objects we find in our universe start to evolve. This would explain how our universe expanded or was created so fast. Because in fact it never “expanded” at all. Thus, there was no need to “bang” so hard so to surpass the speed of light. Instead, everything slowed down enough to start to gain mass. Einstein was correct in that gravity is a consequence. But it’s a consequence of the overall speed our entire universe is moving and the gain of mass in an object. Like static cling.
In addition, when traveling at or faster than the speed of light, time almost stops. So, what may be nothing more than a blip in time, everything within the particle that’s traveling at or almost the speed of light, can be billions of years to those particles. Time is relative and what would be to us the passage of 100 billion years may have only occurred in a split second. We, and everything within whatever it is that we are, whether it be a subatomic particle or truly something that is billions of light-years from end to end, move in unison to the entire space. Therefore, we can’t “feel” the speed we are traveling as everything is relative. Again, the speed at which an object is moving is unstable. Just as it can slow down, it can also speed up. This would be the upswing in the expansion of our universe as discovered back in the late nineties. And should our universe continue to gain speed to where we eclipse the speed of light, our universe will once again lose any mass and basically dissolve into nothing. We would remain in that state until we once again slow to below the speed of light. Particles will start to gain mass and our universe will once again go through its evolutionary process as we are all born again.
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