Cosmology has always been an interesting area of study for me. For as long as I
can remember, every time I look up at the night sky, a million questions pop
into my head. Questions such as “Is there an intelligent life out there?”
“How large is space, does it expand infinitely, if it does, what does it
expand into?” These and many other questions still plague my mind. We can
define Cosmology as the study of the heavens as a whole, including theories
about its origin, evolution, large-scale structure, and future. I would
definitely agree to this description, and would like to explain my point of view
of the topics that Cosmology covers. Personally, I tend to believe that the big
bang theory may have an explanation for the current state of our universe. The
idea that all of this exploded from a super mass isn’t too hard to believe. It
gives good reason to the expansion of the universe, and the 360degree view of
the universe (this because the explosion would have sent mass outward in every
direction), but I wouldn’t think of it as the origin of the universe. I mean,
in my mind, something had to be there to cause this super mass. Was the universe
contracting until it formed this huge mass? I believe that we may never know how
the universe came about, rather have some idea as to what came directly before
it’s current state as well as before that and so on. We could come up with
ideas until we die, and someone would just continue in our footsteps. I do have
one idea as to how this super mass which is the being behind the big bang theory
came to be one mass. Scientists as well as philosophers and just about anyone
you talk to can tell you that the universe is still expanding today, possibly
because of the big bang. Though no one could tell you how this super mass came
to be, or how it originated. I believe that there is a never-ending cycle of the
expansion and contraction of the entire universe. The universe as we know it now
is in a state of expansion. Though there are millions of gravitational fields
out there opposing this expansion. What if there came a point in time where the
force of expansion (caused by the big bang) exhausted itself and the forces of
gravity took over and began contracting the universe back towards a center of
equalized gravity and into a super mass? (You could probably find a mass in the
universe today that is the largest and has the strongest gravitational force of
any other mass, and name that the possible center of a new super mass). We would
then have an answer to the theory of a big bang, and there would definitely be
chaos in the distant future of Earth. Though, we still would have no idea how
any mass was formed, nor how it appeared in space. There is also still the
question of space, what is it, what is containing it if anything, how did it
come about? And many more questions like that. Maybe all of these questions can
be answered with death. They could be answered by proving the existence of God
and asking these questions. I personally believe in God. I want to tell myself
that there is a being that gives us some direction, while giving us free will to
a certain extent. And while watching over life, takes care of the universe. With
all this belief, there is still a question in my mind as to what came before
anything and what came before that and so on. It’s like the question of the
chicken and the egg, we could go on forever and still not be certain which came
first unless we get into evolution, but I’m looking for the principal of the
thing. This is why I believe that some things may be infinite. As far as
infinity is concerned, I believe that such a phenomenon exists, I mean how
better to explain many questions about the universe? I want to believe that
somewhere, somehow there is a beginning point for everything, but then what was
the beginning of that point, and so on? I believe that numbers, especially those
measuring distance, can have infinite capabilities. For instance, with the
expansion or contraction of the universe, it is hard to measure the exact
distance between two galaxies at a given time. As long as the universe is
expanding or contracting, the measurement number will stay unfixed. Infinity may
just be a constant circle or figure eight of events, where something is stuck on
“replay”, if you will. There still is the notion of a starting point in my
mind that will never rest. I think that along with the known dimensions of
reality, time can be added as another. I believe that time exists in it’s own
dimension simply because without it, things would not work correctly. I say this
because we as educated beings adapted this form of relevancy to things and we
are used to it applying to just about everything we do or experience. Timing is
a big factor to everything working correctly and running smoothly. Without time,
there would be chaos, and many theories and explanations wouldn’t be true or
work out right without time. So I see time as a whole complexity in itself and
since many things as we know them could not function without time, I believe
that it has a part in everything. Of course I could be wrong, I only see things
as how the world is aware of them, as for everyone else. I may not know that
time only exists because we need it to in order to function as a human race. For
the subject of other intelligent life in the universe, I hope there is,
otherwise we are a complete freak of nature. If there is other intelligent life,
then someday we will learn of this and can look forward to contact. This would
kill off that question that lives inside our minds and bring some into happiness
and others into fear. On the other hand, if no such creature exists, existed,
nor ever will exist, we shall not find it and always carry an unanswered
question with us. I do believe in other intelligent life out there somewhere,
and there is a possibility that they could be hostile towards us as well as more
technologically advanced, and vice-versa. The possibility that Earth could be
the only planet to ever sustain life is very low in my mind. We aren’t even
the proven original inhabitants of this planet Earth. It is very possible that
the first life form that could have evolved into a human was brought here, to
Earth by an asteroid, comet, or meteor.