Infinite Universe Theory

Infinite Universe Theory

By Vikram Arora.



The Universe never ceases to fascinate me. I still see it with a child
like wonder and a wide open mind. The Theories regarding this mighty
universe are not perfect, including my own. Please look at this new
theory and consider it for a few minutes without prejudice.

The Infinite Universe Theory states:

The Universe is infinite, both in terms of space and time. i.e.,
: it has been here since infinity;
: it goes on in all directions endlessly.
The trouble is we people think infinity is a really big number...
like 32. Infinity cannot really be properly imagined, let alone
calculated.
It is beyond the grasp of our minds. The Universe goes on and on in
all directions and dimensions.
This infinite universe theory starts to make more sense when you
compare the two. The idea of something truly infinite both in terms of
space and time still seems science fiction. The Big Bang Theory states
that the universe is expanding continuously. So at some point of time
long ago this process started with a big bang. as the galaxies seem to
be moving further away from each other, this seems logical. So this
Theory is widely believed. But the part which is still a bit fuzzy is
before the Big Bang. what did we have then? No Matter, space and
time? if that is the case, then what was there to turn the Big Bang
On? The creation of Matter, Time and Space at once with a Bang ,
seems too much too easily. If nothing was before it, what made it
happen? who lighted the fuse? Our eagerness to draw a line at some
point of time and make it a beginning of the universe is making us
oversee many holes in the Theory. Having a certain determinant is
very convenient for calculations, but the state the universe is right
now, the Big Bang Theory does not deliver the goods.

Let me make myself clear on this. The universe has always existed.
There is no start and no finish. No lines can be drawn to the start
like 15 billion years or 30 billion years as we do. There is no age of
this universe. The properties of this infinite wonder are very
different from that of a star or a galaxy. These bodies follow a
life-cycle where as there is no such thing for the universe. We make
the mistake of treating the universe as a thing that was born some
time ago and is going to collapse after a while(The Big Crunch).
Simple Bodies like planets, stars, black holes follow a certain
life-cycle. But I would doubt that a body with features like seemingly
infinite space, light, time, dark matter, and all the matter that
makes it up, would follow a life-cycle.

The other dimension- space is more of the same. infinite space wasn't
meant to be within the grasp of our minds. That is the reason we
cannot imagine and therefore cannot believe that something goes on and
on endlessly. but this theory is in some ways more sensible than the
theory that this space ends somewhere. This also explains why is the
universe so uniform on the largest length scales.

When we look up at this vast space... it seems infinite. But we still
believe that there is an end to the vastness and it stops somewhere.
When we look through the optical devices; we encounter old galaxies.
As more and more superior devices come, we can look still more
further, and still see more old galaxies in the farthest corners(as
they seem) of the universe. This process can go on and on. We are
looking at infinity. We won't see a "No Space After 2 Light Years"
sign anywhere no matter how much farther we look.


The Universe being timeless.

If you think about it, light travels very slow. The information of a
given area of space is not updated if looked from a far away space.
In that sense, we have a very old set of information of the state of
the universe, and it gets older the further we look. So great is the
difference that time itself becomes meaningless. Even if a star we
see from earth is only 10 light years away, we obviously see an old
version of it. So how can we date such a thing as the Universe
which defies and transcends time itself? For the universe, time is
just one of the many dimensions, so how can it have an age?

For normal people like us, time is of great value. But what are
thousands of years here on earth may be mere seconds when seen in
terms of the universe as a whole. Our galaxy may very well be a flash
in the sky lasting for a few seconds. But as time is relative those
few seconds seem like millions of years here.
Sometimes I dream a whole lifetime in 20 minutes of sleep. That?s time
for you.


So what does it mean? That there was no Big Bang?

The Big Bang is not a false or a baseless theory. It is based on
accurate calculations and has many facts in support of it. It?s just
that it gives an incomplete picture. What is thought to be the origin
of the universe may very well be just one of a billion fireworks
displays carried out there. It very well may be the origin of our
Immediate or local universe. But the theory is not sufficient to be
the birth of the whole universe. As an analogy: what we think of as a
Master Server Supercomputer connecting everything, may be just a
486 terminal connecting a village.
Just as our galaxy is the Milky Way, Our Universe may be the Big Bang
Universe. But it is just one of the many flowers blossoming in the
garden. We are like that one flower who is pondering over it?s
blossoming and fails to see the others around it.


I would like to quote Einstein on this matter:
"The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a
little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the
ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that
someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It
does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the
child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a
mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly
suspects."





-----------------------------------------------------------Vikram