The Universe

I read an interesting comment by a scientist the other day. The article was about how subatomic particles interact and the fact that scientists found out that if you move one particle, there is another particle somewhere that will also move. The article went on to say that distance makes no difference, the movement will be instantaneous. Many of us already know that Einstein's law states that nothing can go faster than the speed of light, so how can something that may be many light years away move at the same time you move something here? That something being an subatomic particle. .So how can this be, it seems to violate the know law?

One scientist thinks that he has the solution to this problem and it is not what we think that it would be. He believes that there is no universe beyond a certain point and we just think that it exists because we think we see it. So what is it that we are seeing? According to him, we are seeing a hologram. Sounds crazy doesn't it? You would have expected him to say something else wouldn't you, like maybe somehow worm holes were responsible or time displacement. Of course this would mean that the universe existed and it was not some stage created to fool us. Could this guy be right and we only think that we are part of an infinite universe? Well there is really no way to say 100% that we are part of the universe, but it certainly seems that we are part of some greater galaxy, which in turn is part of a group of galaxies and again those galaxies seem to be part of a universe filled with galaxies. You have to excuse me for saying that the universe is infinite, that is a relative term. Einstein also said that if you were to shine a light in front of you, it would eventually come back to where it started, thus most people think he meant that the universe is round.

So what would be implied if we though that the guy that said the universe is a hologram is correct? Another scientist now believes that reality doesn't exist. Remember that movie, The Matrix, where people believed that they were living their lives, but they were really just powering a machine with their bodies electricity? That is something like what this scientist believes. I am not saying that we are in some sort of machine, what I am saying is that what we are doing, we only think that we are doing. If one believes in God, and I do, might he begin to think that maybe we are already in spirit form and only think that we are on a planet called Earth and this is a test? This could be implied by what this scientist believes.

This theory would mean that there is no distance between subatomic particles even when we think that they are thousands of light years apart. It would all just be an illusion. What is wrong with the mysterious force theory? Sure it seems to violate Einstein's theory, but haven't we found ways around that before? When people said we could never reach distant stars because we can't travel faster than the speed of light, we hit upon the theory of folding space and traveling through wormholes.Do you remember folding space? Think of a piece of paper with a dot at each end. Instead of traveling from one dot to the other across the paper, you fold the paper until the dots touch and then travel to the other dot in an instant. It is said that someday we will be able to fold time and space and accomplish the same thing. Wormholes are tunnels in space. You could call them shortcuts. They cut off much of the distance between objects. Maybe there is some new phenomenon that we don't know about that does one of these things for subatomic particles when they are moved? These are very tiny objects and maybe different laws apply that we are not yet aware of?

Here is a kicker for you, maybe Einstein was wrong. Ouch, I said it and now I will get a million emails telling me how stupid I am. Please understand that I am just trying to explore every avenue. What about dark matter, since we know almost nothing about it, could it have some relationship on the movement of particles in the universe? Einstein said that Cosmological Shear would occur due to the presence of dark matter. This shear is caused by gravity and bends distant light. If this light is bent, couldn't we be wrong about distances? I know a few cases when it seems the method used to measure the speed of galaxies traveling away from us seems to be wrong when using the red shift method. The more to the red a galaxy's light is shifted, the faster it is supposedly speeding away from us. Dark matter is supposed to compose 90% of all the matter in the universe and I think it will be important to see how this matter works as compared to light matter before we can state any conclusions about the universe with absolute certainty. It would be like talking about the Earth without ever mentioning the oceans.

If the universe doesn't really exist, then there was no big bang and the background noise left by it is nothing more than a hoax. Taking this a step further, would the planets in our solar system be artificially created? If this is true than why is the Earth so dynamic with volcanoes and storms, you would think that things would be a lot more peaceful wouldn't you?

One of the great problems that exists is when you start asking questions, such as where did the universe come from? Our meager human brains can not comprehend the answers. It is as if a stone wall were put up and we were asked to look through it with just our eyes and tell someone what was on the other side. We just can't do it. The only possible explanation is that God created the universe. When we say this, someone is bound to say, who created God? Now we have to say that this is a mystery because God always was and always will be. This is not very scientific, is it? Yet, scientists are faced with the same answer when asked about the universe's creation. If they say it was once just a super ball of atoms that exploded, then someone is bound to ask, where the super ball of atoms came from. While the answer of God satisfies the religious, it may not satisfy some of the scientists, yet the study of the universe has caused many scientists to believe in God who didn't, before taking up astronomy.

Could it be that the universe is not really as big as we think it is and at some point we are just looking at a 3D image? I guess so. Is it likely that this is true? I just can not believe it. There is just too much evidence stating otherwise. It is an intriguing thought and for hundreds of years some people have proposed that we are not really living the life we think, it is all in our minds, but again, if this were true, would some people be able to perform superhuman tasks and such? Nah, I don't think that this is true either. I think that the universe is what we see it as, but I do believe there may be a lot more to it than we understand now.