Jenn Z. (nenajever) wrote, @ 2008-05-22 23:29:00

The Big Claim.
I've always loved science. It's why I became an engineer I suppose. I'm not sure why, but theoretical astrophysics has really interested me as of late. The following rant is mere conjecture and is a compilation of many other people's ideas and theories. Read on cautiously.

In the beginning the universe was condensed in a singular point. All of the forces we know today were rolled into one singular energy, one enormously hot point dangling in a great pool of nothingness. When energy is condensed it is very very hot, and upon a single instant (something along the lines of 1e-35 seconds) it was released and began expanding. From then on all the forces of magnetism, gravity, and radiation began to unravel and the universe began to cool and expand. Since that moment 13.7 billion years ago the universe has set to cooling and expanding and forming the celestial bodies, including the lovely home here we all enjoy, to this very day. Matter formation is another science all together, but it was all formed from the heat and energy of the Big Bang. Matter is just frozen energy after all.

We can speculate about this event today through cosmic microwave background radiation. This specific form of radiation is said to be the remnants of the Big Bang and is widely accepted as the main evidentiary support for the theory. These wavelengths are present throughout the universe, simultaneously everywhere and just out of reach. The temperature of this black body hovers just above absolute zero, the state at which atoms stop jitterbugging. If first there was a bang, these universal frequencies would be the echo.

Free of philosophical implications, this event is our eventual creation and will one day be our demise. When will the expansion stop, if ever? It may stop once it reaches some sort of steady state equilibrium that none of us can predict or understand, or it may never stop. Will the universe eventually expand to a breaking point at which time it will be torn apart and the matter that was created in the beginning will come to a halt and cease to be? None of us will ever see the day. Thank goodness?

Stay tune for more wild speculations about the nature of the universe, dark matter, dark energy, relativity, and black holes.

Maybe.

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