The Big Bang Blogosphere
By Chris Crosby | October 26th, 2006 | Category: Daily Musings |As a kid growing up I was a bit of a space junky (I know, who wasn’t right?). I did a great deal of reading and research into all sorts of things about Space and Space Exploration. But one of the things to this day that has been near impossible for me to wrap my head around is the Big Bang Theory.
I could never quite grasp the idea of a massive juggernaut creating matter out of nothing. If the universe is expanding from the center at light speed every second, what is on the other side? Surely there is something that it has to be swallowing up, right? Well no, not according to Science anyway.
Then it struck me today. Isn’t that the same thing as the Blogoshere? This giant growing organism that is creating content out of nothing. Websites that weren’t there a couple hours ago are now chalked full of matter such as this blog. And there wasn’t anything here for my blog to swallow to make room for it, other than the time it took me to create it.
Sort of a random rambling, but perhaps the laws of science and physics are governing us in more ways than we thought…
Have you ever watched the documentary The Elegant Universe from Nova? If you think the Big Bang is interesting you should watch it. Will make you ponder things like: is it possible that there are actually infinite universes in existence, each with their own big bang, all occurring simultaneously? Not very related to your point but I have a passion for weird physics like that so I had to comment
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