Ah, the creation of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
I've been wondering, if the universe did start with no
space, was there no
time either ?
I heard this little fairy tale once, about the "
creation"
of a universe. This universe existed without space and without time, so everything in it happened "
at once"
and at the same "
place"
. This universe was also conscious, so it was all-knowing. However, this also meant that it was lacking local knowledge, or
experience -- if you watch a movie by seeing all the frames at once, there can be no surprises or multitude of feelings, because you're not actually experiencing the movie, right ? However, you can do this if you look at individual frames, ie introduce time. So, to learn more about itself, this universe decided to split itself up into time, to keep everything from happening at once, and also space, to keep everything from happening at the same place. At the end of time and space, all the little pieces would be collected back into the singularity, so that it could truly know everything about itself.
Now, I don't think I believe this is how our universe was created, but I do think it's a nice little story
I also heard that, in quantum physics, it is actually possible for something to be created out of nothing -- one particle and one anti-particle -- it's just incredibly unlikely. Is this true ? If we have an
infinite amount of time, probabilities doesn't really matter, since something just has to happen
once in this infinite amount of time. So, if there was an infinite amount of time before the creation of space, it was bound to happen
sometime, and since space wouldn't have existed yet the particle and anti-particle created their own ..
I'm not sure if I believe this either, but again, nice theory
Also, about the sound theory -- if the universe started with a sound, what made that sound ? Also, sound waves needs something to propagate through, they can't just fly around in nothing. But there was no space, so how could it ?
- Gerry