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* Office Environment – d?cor and facilities.
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Here is just a start. Work on one of these today and by sticking with it you will start to see noticeable results.
Alternative ideas in cosmology suggest there may have never been a “Big Bang.” There may have been, however, an event somewhat similar to the “Big Bang” but having occurred in a way never previously understood or imagined. If there was a “Big Bang” such a massive event may have been one of the phases in the creation of only one of countless universes from the universal ocean of energy rather than the absolute beginning itself.
A Universe Supported by Dark Energy and Designed by Vast Streams of Electrified Plasma
There may not be a need for a “Big Bang” to explain creation, because there is already more than enough evidence in various fields of science to at least require some modification of that theory. For example, I believe there should be more than enough of that ubiquitous dark (zero point) energy saturating every cubic centimeter of space to create and maintain quite a robust universe with a very smooth back-ground radiation. The universe appears to be expanding as part of a huge recycling process where everything in it eventually accelerates out to infinity while new particles in the form of vast, electrically energized streams of plasmas created by zero point energy produce new galaxies in the place of older ones.
Furthermore, 99.999% of the visible matter in the universe consists of plasmas shaped by tremendous electrical and magnetic forces that are billions of times stronger than gravity. In addition to plasma’s profoundly universal electrical effects, other discoveries in the field of quantum physics along with the possible influences of vast quasars (black holes) and parallel universes (the multiverse) will also force cosmologists to completely alter their present “Big Bang” theory. The vast areas of space between the galactic clusters may be expanding, but the galactic clusters themselves are not, especially where the quasars are, which are massive, illuminating black holes.
I Envision a Dynamic Universe in a Constant State of Change, Evolution and New Growth
Rather than simply accepting that all creation somehow exploded out of a single point of extreme density, I prefer to think that the entire universe is more like a boiling cauldron “heated” by dark energy from five-dimensional space and shaped by vast electrified streams of plasma. No “Big Bang” is needed to explain why distant galaxies are moving away from each other, because a vastly expanded “Casimir effect” of dark energy (space naturally emits a positive outflow of virtual particles from quantum energy everywhere) is enough to explain why this continuous inflation of space, or more specifically, a universal increase in the distance between galactic clusters is happening, has always happened, and always will happen acting as a perfect counterbalance to gravity and possibly forming new particles by the trillions of trillions.
Is the Universe Infinite or Finite?
The universe is both finite and infinite. The multiverse (this universe and all others) may be infinite in its theoretical domain yet finite in how it can be observed or experienced, because the most distant galaxies’ red-shifts would become too great to be detected by anything and therefore be “lost” forever over the cosmic horizon as new matter from particles created by the vacuum (dark) energy replaces them. In a sense, the cosmic horizon is like a massive event horizon of a black hole, where the red-shift becomes infinite and time comes to a complete stop. That is exactly what happens at the edge of the universe; time, relatively speaking, comes to a complete stop, but not from “their” viewpoint but from our viewpoint, and nothing more from their section of the universe can be experienced from our viewpoint. The energy from these most distant objects are not lost, however, it transfers back into the visible universe in the form of dark energy in a similar way that black holes transmit energy back into space when objects enter its event horizon.
Not all Parts of the Universe Are Expanding
There is no increase in distance where gravity is stronger than this expansive force, which is usually between individual galaxies inside a cluster, stars within a galaxy, and of course, planets within solar systems are not affected. It is within these areas that the universe is contracting under the force of gravity, especially where the black holes are. If this were not so, then such structures as galactic clusters would not continue to exist. As the universe as a whole expands, the individual parts of it will not and will therefore continue to clump together resulting in an everlasting balance between the forces of gravity and the expansive forces of the Casimir effect. Since the Casimir effect can be reproduced in any laboratory by anyone with two plates and a bell or vacuum jar, dark energy need no longer be a mystery!
What Exactly is Space and Matter?
Space is not empty! Space is actually one single universal fabric of pure quantum energy which becomes “solid” and vibrates like a bell when acted upon at the speed of light. Space is a single, universal substance, membrane, or “particle” of a complex multi-dimensional geometry that not only transmits photons in a similar way electricity is transmitted down a wire, but also when slightly geometrically modified, instantly becomes the essence of atomic particles which are the building blocks of atoms. In other words, all energy (which matter is made of) is a multidimensional, geometric modification of space! Everything is made from space! Because matter really is nothing more than a complex five-dimensional “wave” or change in the geometry of space-time trapped within a multidimensional force field, I don’t see why the concept of matter being created from the nearly infinite amounts of quantum vacuum energy in all of space would be considered such an unlikely source, especially when compared to a “Big Bang” out of nothing, which indeed would have to be extremely unlikely.
Does not Time Ever Run Down?
Energy is never lost! The worst that can happen is it merges back into the One Substance of all reality, or cosmic ocean of zero point energy which in turn radiates as dark energy in various ways in the form of radiation particles back into our four dimensions of space-time, which again, through entropy, eventually returns back to its original “One Substance” or “Wholeness” and this cycle repeats itself forever. Energy is not something that nature can only create so much of then eventually runs out of. Nature is energy. No energy is ever lost, only transferred from one system to another. Energy or time can only run down within the space-time continuum, but never outside of it. The original source of all energy is quantum energy, a universal substance of subatomic influence in five dimensions, beyond all thermodynamic limitations of entropy.
The whole universe really is in a constant and very delicate balancing act between expansion and contraction, creation and dissolution. How does it maintain such a delicate balance? Remembering that there is really only one Substance called “space,” no energy can ever actually be lost or wasted. It may seem to be as most of the light and heat from stars seems radiate into deep space, and galaxies eventually recede forever into the infinite distance. However, all that is really happening is that energy is constantly being returned to its ultimate source, space itself, which is a constantly shimmering ocean of energy. Energy by its very own nature is constantly changing and transforming, but is never truly lost, after all, where can it go?
I am not comfortable with the idea of the “Big Bang.” I think the universe came from a “Great Wave” of multiple creation phases. It is still possible to conceive of an alternative theory to the highly improbable and rather awkward “Big Bang” model, using the latest scientific observation.
In the Beginning there Was Nothing But Void
According to the latest observations of very distant galaxies, quasars, gamma ray bursts, etc., from over 13 billion light-years away, the universe seems to be going through vast stages of evolution. However, the idea that somehow the entire universe in all its immensity started out from a single point smaller than an atom seems both preposterous and unnecessary. Even more impossible is the idea that somehow all that which came from this “Big Bang” was so perfectly aligned to at least six numbers and/or laws of physics that it was able to accidentally form into a whole, vast life-bearing universe without collapsing too soon or expanding too rapidly!
Such an event would be so unlikely and so far-fetched that the chances of that event actually happening would be practically nonexistent. To assume that even the space-time continuum had a beginning to it is utterly strange and unnecessary. 13.7 billion years is not the age of this ageless universe, it is the length of the radius to the event horizon making it seem as if the universe started at that point in time. Space, time, the laws of physics, and the maximum allowable speed of light are eternal constants that never change.
In the distant past there was nothing but a cold, vast void, with no stars except maybe a few ancient black holes left over from a previous universe scattered here and there. Because the vast realms of space are always saturated with dark energy, space is always expanding, especially between the most distant objects, whatever may be left over from any previous universes may have continued to “expand” over the cosmic horizon never to be seen again. With all this dark energy forcing galaxies to move apart at an accelerating rate in all directions, there is no need for a “Big Bang” to explain why the universe is expanding in the way that it is. Instead of exploding from a tiny point, the universe is constantly replacing itself with new waves of galactic creation. A possibility remains that some remnants of a previous universe may still be left hanging around and therefore have some effect on the design of the next creation.
There Are Waves or Periods of Creation and Star Formation between long Periods of Darkness
There are waves or phases of creation; never a “Big Bang” from a single point of of an impossibly huge amount of quantum energy all at one time, but rather a continuous and harmonious flow of creative quantum (dark) energy throughout all space lasting indefinitely and resulting in vast clouds of dark matter and eventually the components of physical matter atoms in the form of plasmas and electrons condensing either directly from dark energy or possibly “stepped” down from the higher vibrations of dark matter via the same quantum or dark energy influences that created the dark matter in the first place. Dark energy, the originator of all things, is one and the same as the quantum fluctuations of space, zero point energy and the Casimir effect.
Space is the multidimensional oneness of all things. Space is the one Original Substance that always has existed and always will exist. This undefinable oneness does not come from nothing, yet is absolutely original, independent, self-defining, self-supporting and complete. Being an infinite amount of nothing, space is visually finite yet eternal in principle. Space has or needs no beginning or ending, it simply exists forever as a universal wholeness.
The next wave of creation began as a boundless, dark and foggy mass that took hundreds of billions of years, if not, thousands of billions of years of quantum energy events to accumulate thick enough to start condensing. This multi-particle “fog” contained vast clouds of hydrogen, helium and lithium plasmas (free electrons and nuclei). With the influence of dark matter, magnetic, electrical, and gravitational forces, these vast clouds of plasma formed into knots that condensed into massive stars (some as large as billions of solar masses) which started to consume and/or blow off vast volumes of gas into space causing a chain reaction of more star formation and fusion of hydrogen, helium, etc. into heavier elements throughout the cosmic sea of fog. Within a few hundred-million years of the beginning of this first wave of star formation, the largest stars collapsed into vast black holes with polarized streamers and huge halos of star cloud and dark matter.
The closest thing to a “Big Bang” that actually happened in the early universe were these countless millions of colossal super novae going off as massive first generation stars reached the end of their relatively short but very intense multimillion year life-spans. Some of the largest stars or clusters of stars quickly burned out and collapsed into vast gamma-ray bursting black holes that later became quasars and finally the centers of elliptical and spiral galaxies thousands of light-years across.
If one could see back in time, deep into the early universe, one would see some of the most violent events that ever took place. One would see huge, unstable, hot blue stars with millions, if not billions of solar masses forming in countless mega-nebulae. One would see clumpy or chaotic looking galaxies with thousand light-year long streaks or streamers as these hot, massive stars quickly burn out, explode and collapse into vast black holes or quasars. Evidence of huge explosions would dot the whole region.
Three to twelve billion years later, galaxies became much larger and more regular in shape such as the elliptical and spiral galaxies that exist today. Second and third generation stars with heavier elements formed allowing for solar systems with solid planets bearing living organisms. Smaller stars tend to be much more stable and commonplace and will continue to light up the galaxies for another five to one-thousand billion years. The smallest stars (red dwarfs) will shine the longest.
The Multi-Dimensional Quantum Field of Space is the Source of all Time, Energy, and Matter
Even though space is obviously not solid, light can travel through it, so there is definitely a “something” in space that acts as a transmitting medium for electromagnetic radiation. Because matter is really made up of resonating pockets of trapped electromagnetic radiation, matter is simply an energetic variation of the multi-dimensional substance of space. And there will always be a certain ratio of matter to space–something like ten hydrogen atoms and one helium atom for every cubic meter of the emptiest regions of deep space between the galactic clusters.
However, the amount of particles in every cubic meter of space can vary dramatically depending on which region of space and which epoch in time we are referring to; for instance, the number of hydrogen and helium nuclei per cubic meter of space within a cluster of galaxies can be a thousand times higher. There can also be thousands of neutrinos zipping past every split second at nearly the speed of light, hundreds of thousands of free electrons, quarks, gluons, dark matter particles, dark energy virtual particles, electromagnetic radiation (photons), magnetic fields, and other fine particles. Space indeed is never absolutely empty, but filled with all kinds of activity.
The entirety of space itself can be conceptualized as being one huge particle with its own boundary or event horizon. Space is one single, infinite field of an intelligent substance that consists of a very high frequency of pure, expanding energy which some might call the “Breath of God” because it is constantly “shimmering” or breathing in and out at an extremely rapid rate. Space is completely and utterly saturated with this universal vi
bration at extremely, extremely high frequencies of very intense electromagnetic energy most of it being far higher than the highest “notes” of what most of us consider to be the electromagnetic spectrum. This universal force of dark energy is known as zero point energy which is powered by the Uncertainty Principle.
The precipitation of particles from dark energy is far from chaotic, but in direct alignment with the sacred geometry of the Golden Mean where quantum vibrations resonate throughout all octaves of the musical scale. The whole design of the universe is based on this precise musical scale, otherwise matter would simply not form into the exact atomic patterns that it consists of. The crystalline structures of matter, the designs found in living forms and of nature itself would not be possible without these precisely attuned multidimensional notes (cosmic strings?) of energy. The laws of nature are so perfectly tuned and exact, that a universal, governing intelligence or “consciousness” consisting of quantum patterns of energy throughout the higher dimensions beyond space and time would have to exist for all these “miracles” of creation to keep on happening.
Dark Energy Eventually Transports Distant Galaxies Toward an “Event Horizon” where Time Stops
The quantum fields of dark energy causes the vastest scales of cosmic distances to expand exponentially to the point where the red shifts of distant objects become infinite. Any objects from such immense distances no longer “exist” from our perspective because their space-time axis has absolutely flattened out, merging completely with the singularity beyond the cosmic horizon of the visible universe. It is in this way that the overall size, shape and energy of the universe always remains finite, but constant.
The idea of a cosmological constant needed to prevent the universe from ultimately collapsing under its own gravity was discarded by Albert Einstein in what he called his “biggest blunder.” However, the overall effect that dark energy has on the universe seems to be exactly like Einstein’s cosmological constant. What was once a “blunder” is now a leading explanation for why the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
The greater the distance from our local galaxy, the greater the rate of expansion of space of which the overall effect would be an expansion-generated space-time-axis “curvature” of space from “horizontal” at our location of the universe to “perpendicular” at the radius of 13.7 billion light years. The main feature of black holes is their event horizons that encompass a “space” that is perpendicular to the space surrounding it adding an extra dimension or direction of space that pierces many parallel universes well into the distant future.
There seems to be a significant similarity between the event horizon of a black hole and the much vaster cosmic horizon where countless galaxies would seem to vanish from view. The rate of time of whatever galaxies that recede back toward the visible edge or “event horizon” of the universe approaches to a complete halt, with whatever radiation emanating from these objects becoming no longer distinguishable from the cosmic background radiation.
Why Is The Cosmic Microwave Background is so Smooth and the Universe so Clumpy?
The cosmic microwave background is most likely an artifact of highly red-shifted radiation from the heat and energy of the vast condensations of deuterium and helium plasmas abundantly present throughout the early stages of the universe. It is also theoretically possible that a small portion of the CMB could be a harmonic of the universal quantum vibration of the void.
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is obviously and naturally extremely smooth and even, as it resonates from a vast, opaque blanket of elementary particles and plasmas most likely to exist evenly spread out in all directions throughout the furthest reaches of the cosmic horizon from 13.4 to 13.7 billion light years away. The ubiquitous quantum dark energy for billions and billions of years produced these highly energetic plasmas in equal amounts in all directions of space which finally had accumulated to a critical “stellar formation” density at the earliest stages of the present universe.
If such a thing as the CMB came from an explosion, it would have to be much more uneven, but its “smoothness” is at least one-hundred thousand to one. Massive filamentary structures consisting of vast strings of galactic clusters have been observed right out to the very edge of the visible universe. These structures are so huge, they would need at least 70 billion years to form. How something nearly perfectly smooth becomes so utterly clumpy within a billion years is hard to explain, unless there was much more time than 13.7 billion years allowed for such massive and ancient looking cosmic structures to form.
No Energy is Actually Lost, Only Transformed Back Into the Oneness
Whatever energy and matter that goes over the cosmic horizon is never actually lost. It is simply recycled in the same manner as whatever gets completely consumed by a black hole or gravity well. Gravity has a “white hole” or opposite polarity to it like all forces do and this “white hole” polarity is intimately associated with the direction of time which is synonymous with the universal polarity of space itself. The opposite force or polarity of gravity is evenly scattered throughout the whole universe in the form of positive matter particle creation in every cubic centimeter of space. The entire universe itself is the ever-expanding “white hole” while all gravitational black holes are highly focused points of contracting space at specific locations.
Billions of Years of Dark Energy Gradually Leaves a Residue of 90% Dark Matter and 10% Physical Matter
The actual process of matter creation is a rather long and tedious development requiring the existence of countless highly coincidental or outstanding quantum events of a temporary but very intense nature. In every cubic centimeter of space, billions of particles and antiparticles are created and annihilate each other over and over again, releasing tiny amounts of energy and causing a slight increase in the volume of space while providing an essential sustaining power that keeps all electrons from collapsing into the nuclei of atoms.
However one in a billion of these virtual particles somehow get separated from or created without a counterpart to annihilate with and therefore hangs around long enough to become part of an atom. Because space is “polarized” by the arrow (direction) of time, slightly more particles than antiparticles are created. The kind of particles most likely to not be annihilated by an anti-particle “twin” tend to be matter particles rather than antimatter particles. That is why there is an overwhelming majority of surviving matter particles over surviving antimatter particles.
This scenario is most likely at least one way that matter can seemingly come from “nothing.” Dark matter (or astral matter) is an even finer substance that seems to be created from “nothing” at an even faster rate of roughly ten or more particles of dark matter for every particle of ordinary matter. The accumulation of minute particles of dark matter are the resulting “foam” or “residue” of billions and billions of years of these quantum events in the sea of dark energy throughout space. Like dark energy which has a very, very high but extremely intense vibration, very fine dark matter is physically undetectable because it also has a very high rate of vibration. It may be possible that some of that dark matter, which consists of 90% of all matter in the universe, may eventually decay into the components of physical matter. It may be that entire atoms of dark matter could be decaying into entire atoms of physical matter simply by causing its vibration rate to drop down to the resonance of physical matter through the influence of dark energy.
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jor problem with the “Big Bang” theory is that the overall universe has recently been found to be perfectly “flat” and not at all spherical or gravitationally curved in any way as one would expect from any universe expanding from a single point. A “flat” universe 156 billion light years wide (actual present-day estimated size of the “Big Bang” universe if the light horizon did not exist) that started from a tiny point only 13.73 billion years ago sounds amazingly contradictory and requiring such a precise value of critical density as to again be extremely unlikely, unless one brings in the anthropic principle.
In order to help iron out some of these most obvious discrepancies, “Big Bang” theorists had to come up with an “inflationary model” in which the whole universe somehow exponentially expanded from a tiny point to a space billions of light years in diameter in a very small fraction of a second! This expansion rate is not only many, many times faster than the speed of light, but still would not be enough to completely remove all of the remaining “curvature” out of the observable universe. Since no general curvature can be found at all, I am surprised after learning this fact (which very strongly supports my theory) and the overwhelming evidence that it is dark energy and not the original “Big Bang” expansion that is driving galaxies apart, that very brilliant scientists still think the “Big Bang” theory is the best explanation! Am I missing something here?
Another question that remains to be answered, is where did all that incredible ultra-concentrated infinite energy of the “Big Bang” come from in the first place? How can all that perfectly concentrated energy come from nothing, let alone be so infinitely concentrated in the first place? And then how can pure energy develop into hundreds of billions of galaxies most likely populated with trillions of civilizations without simply dispersing into space as radiation and/or countless trillions and trillions of separate particles? It is as strange as firing off an M-80 and expecting the debris of that explosion to miraculously transform into a flock of birds and ten thousand butterflies. Everything coming from a tiny point seems to be the most unlikely and awkward way imaginable to create a universe.
The Future of the Universe
Because deep field observations suggest overall changes in the early universe as compared to the more recent (local) sections of the universe, such as the increasing rarity of heavier elements the further one peers back toward the “beginning” of the universe along with increasing irregularity and smaller sizes of galaxies, it is more than likely that the universe is not in a “steady state” but rather goes through vast cycles, stages, or waves of creation.
In the future of the universe, galaxies will continue to expand away from each other at an accelerating rate. After a hundred and fifty billion years from now, everything might become quite dark and very sparse as more and more hydrogen and helium get fused into increasingly heavier elements not so easy to convert into energy. Dying stars, neutron stars, quark stars, and black holes may become more and more numerous as the galactic clusters they inhabit expand further and further away into the distance.
Even though new particles and plasmas are constantly being created from dark energy and attracted into a vast array of colossal threads of plasma by the gravitational influence of dark matter, the rate of which star formation and consumption of energy by these stars may exceed the creation of new hydrogen fuel many times. Long periods of darkness may have to ensue before enough fuel accumulates again for a series of new galaxies to form.
Unless somehow all the dark energy in the universe goes through a massive “surge” or increase in activity, this process cannot be speeded up. This “surge” in energy might occur if a more than usual amount of energy and matter is consumed by black holes and/or passes over the cosmic (event) horizon. Recent observations indeed suggest that the expansion rate is in fact accelerating out of control leading to a run-away universe scenario. Such an increase in dark energy should also result in an increase in the rate of new matter creation throughout the cosmos.
While falling down any black hole or singularity, or while speeding away toward the cosmic horizon approaching the rapidity of light, time (rate of energy) slows down and comes to a complete halt. Because no energy is ever really lost, the energy has to go somewhere, and therefore must feed back into the overall “dark energy” reservoir of space within the vast circumference of the cosmic horizon. Dark energy is the sustainer of all time and is what keeps “space” chronologically “polarized” in a forward moving or “thermodynamic” direction.
The universe in general also appears quite transparent. In order for there to be constantly enough “raw materials” available for continuous stellar creation and starlight to occur, the universe would have be fairly opaque all over most of the time. Only certain regions or patches of the universe appear to be filled with enough plasmas to be visible as nebulae. Therefore a more likely scenario for the future of the universe will be an eventual blackout as all the stars in all the galaxies run out of fuel. A long period of “abstinence” may have to go by before enough of that fuel is replenished by the ubiquitous quantum energies of space to allow for another wave of stellar and galactic formation.
While all the stars eventually die out, or either become black holes or get swallowed by black holes and/or pass over the cosmic horizon never to be seen again, only a few large black holes may stay around long enough for the next cycle of creation to begin. It will take billions and billions of years for enough new hydrogen and helium (star power) to again accumulate from dark energy and provide all the components of a new universe and enough fuel at the right amount of density for yet another cosmic firework display to usher in the dawn of a brand-new wave of creation.
However, the universes of dark (or astral) matter may not suffer such long cycles of darkness or experience none at all because their vibration rate is so much more closely attuned to the universal “music” or “Shabad” of dark energy. In the realms of astral matter on the finest levels of vibration, the availability of light and energy is most likely to remain much more steady and reliable.
Remembering that only 10 percent (more recent data suggests 17 percent) of the material in the universe is visible matter, while the rest is dark matter, there is obviously far more going on in the universe that is not being seen or known. However, from what we can determine from all the UFO sightings, hauntings, apparitions, astral projection experiences, near-death experiences, and actual communications from souls who have passed over to the afterlife, there is not only overwhelming evidence that life exists on these higher planes of existence, it is also a life of the highest quality imaginable.