in the begining?

So, in the beginning was a tiny single bit of stuff that exploded to create the universe. What was outside this single grain of everything before it popped? What did it explode into? Where did this seed of the universe come from? We know how old it is, 13.77 billion years based on our current understanding of such things. It’s expanding at about 74km per second according to the great search engine in the sky. So what is the universe expanding into? Where is the edge of this expansion and what is beyond it? We build giant machines that use cities worth of energy to power so that we may smash tiny particles together in order to examine the fragments of the smash, to see what comes out of the particles when we break them open. These fragments of minuteness will, it is hoped by those that design such machines give us insight into first moments of the universe.

But where did the universe seed come from, and what came before it. Is that our human brain simply cannot imagine or fathom the concept of nothing, no time, no space, no light or dark, no empty or full, just nothing. Then into this unimaginable intangible nothing that is not even a vacuum, it is just no-thing, into this pops a seed containing everything, and not just things, it contains time itself. Can we even begin to comprehend what no time is? And as the seed grows, creating time and space and light and dark and all the elements that form everything we know of, creating life.

Throughout history our species attempts to grasp at the concepts of creation, coming to numerous conclusions based on the mind-set of the era. Invariably the ‘facts’ of creation change and evolve as people consider alternate possibilities based on the knowledge, understanding and the imagination of the time. And as time progresses new ideas and thoughts emerge, sprouted from the imagination of a few seemingly will to look at their time and space with eyes not dimmed or blinkered by the accepted vision of the universe at their time of physical existence. As seems to be the way with our species though, new ideas are generally scorned upon, with the protagonist and believers of said new idea most often coming to some untimely end usually in a typically brutal fashion

Pondering the Universe and beyond

there was a great program on TV, on the BBC, about stars, how they form, how they die,and all that they do. I always find it interesting when they show the historical parts, of how 'current thinking' has changed so much over the years, it makes me wonder what a similar program made in 50 years time would make of today's 'current thinking'.

From what i understand, as we theorize it today a sol sized star, when it dies releases oxygen and carbon into the universe, bigger stars are energetic enough to be able create through nuclear fusion a wider range of elements. Really huge stars ones that are so big that when they explode they collapse in so much that they do not leave a cinder of their remains in the form of a red dwarf, or a super dense pulsating neutron star, the really huge ones collapse in to create a black hole. and it is there our current understanding goes all vague as no information about black holes is able to pass beyond the event horizon, the black hole has such a powerful pull it sucks in everything around it, including light.

So, these really huge stars that are big enough to create all the elements, when they get 'too big' they end up collapsing in to form a black hole. One wonders whether much of the newly created elements and other matter are sucked back into the black hole.

Where does it go? is it spewed out the other side to create a new universe or galaxy or star, or an anti-universe, galaxy or star? Perhaps a consequence of being pulled through a black hole is to create 'anti' versions of all that is pulled through. That would lead to the thought that our universe could be littered with 'anti' stars, solar systems and planets.

But what about that when anti matter comes into contact with matter the result is annihilation? Well one thought could be that as black holes also appear to mess with time as well as space, well perhaps what comes out the other side is also anti-time or some 'other' sort of time/space, one that does not interact in any way with our time/space. Dark Matter?