Free Lunch

Here is something I have understood for a while:
If the surface of the Earth represents the size of the known universe, the solar system on that scale would be the size of a single, small bacteria.

but now, I've learned something much more amazing:
Quite possibly, the actual universe may be hundreds of thousands of times larger than the known universe, such that what we can see, is merely a small fraction of that which exists. In this model, if the actual universe is as large as has been speculated, the size of our entire universe may be equivalent to the circumference of pluto and our galaxy in comparison, may be the size of an atom in this model.

some of the ideas about how the universe came into being is the "quantum fluctuation" theory, where at the moment the laws of physics became possible, a quantum fluctuation occurred (according to the uncertainty principle, which demonstrates that virtual particles come into being constantly), which then, greatly expanded and created the known universe. This fluxuation, would have had the same characteristics as a virtual particle, [which is thought to be one of the candidates for the composition of dark energy. dark energy is thought to account for 70% of the stuff of the known universe, dark matter is thought to account for up to 29% of the rest of the known universe, with visible matter accounting for anywhere from 1-9% of the known universe.] seeing as this particle would have no mass, it would not have to adhere to the "rational" concept of something. [Science can bypass the argument that the universe came out of nothing, due to the fact that calculations show that the net energy of the known universe is zero, which means that if all of the forces were combined, it would equal nothing. So, something from nothing, is merely an equasion and not an irrational perspective.] This fluxuation theory as cause of the universe, would only need to be in existence for a very short period of time -long enough for the conditions of inflation to take hold and create an irretrievable expansion of the energy such that it was expanding faster than the abiity of information to travel across it.


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