Monday, November 14, 2011

Big Bang Theory

So recently I have been reading Stephen Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time."  I picked it up thinking it would be an interesting read, and one that might keep me intrigued to the end.  So far it has definitely lived up to those expectations.  In the first three chapters Hawking writes a short discourse on the different views of the universe.  From the Geocentric to the ever expanding universe he has covered it all.  Anyway at one point he was talking about the big bang and how it may have been started and what could happen at the end. As I was reading this chapter I started to think about what was being said, and thought well I may have a theory that could go on after the big bang.  I was thinking that the natural state of matter is entropy, or a form of chaos.  Nothing in the physical world is without entropy, be it a child's bed room to the bits of the human cell that are striving to break out of the cell membrane and leak all over the place.  Everything involves entropy at some level.  This made me think that the most chaotic place, theoretically, was the universe pre big bang.  Even though the theory of relativity claims that time does not start until the big bang actually commenced, many scholars have talked about the universe being about the size of a pin head before the big bang happened.  I digress, if all this energy and matter were condensed into the size of a pin head it would not take much to make it want to expand or explode.  But the natural state of things is a state of entropy so as the universe expands there will be less and less until the universe stabilizes.  From what I know, which is not much ergo why I am reading about physics and what not, this stabilization could start the big crunch.  Once all matter is stable and no longer moving away from each other could gravity or some other form of force eventually bring the universe back to the state that it once was?  I guess that was a long winded version of my theory but there it is.  Chaos to Order to Chaos again. 

By the way, if one were to adopt the idea that the natural state of matter is a state of entropy one no longer needs to worry about cleaning or keeping order since that is natural.  Just joking of course.

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