I’m not sure that I can get my head around it.
No, not the TV show, but THE Big Bang. The thing that started everything.
I’ve read an article about it on the BBC’s website, and although fascinating (anything to do with the Universe is!) and the article clearly explains how we can see that the Big Bang occurred, I just can’t get my head around there being nothing before it.
If everything was so impacted in on itself, what was around it? I can’t see something trying to explode from out of nothing to become something as big as the Universe and keep on expanding outwards. There has to be something surrounding the Universe for it to expand into, and my mind tells me that that something can not be nothing.
Even the space between the stars is something, so if the Big Bang theory is to be believed, before it there would have been no space.
I can get my head around the enormity of the Universe no problem. I can get my head around the millennia of years that have gone before us, and those that will go on afterwards. They have ‘set’ boundaries, something I can grab a hold of. No matter how tiny and insignificant I feel when I think of these things, I get them.
But ask me to understand nothing being there – NO thing – and my mind starts to steam. I start to wink, then blink, and then close in on myself. That nothing is far too big a thing for me to comprehend.
According to the article, Stephen Hawking has said that the Big Bang was the start of everything. It came from nothing, and there was nothing before it.
Now, the idea of the Universe exploding out of a densely packed chunk of something, regardless of there being nothing or something around it, and no matter how hard it is to get my head around that, I can, kind of, see that working (And yes, I’m aware that I’ve just said that I can and can’t get my head around the same thing in the same sentence. I’m a living paradox at times!) The Universe just exploding onto the scene sets me off blinking again.
Professor Hawking has likened the idea of anything existing before the Big Bang to there being a point north of the North Pole – which is an impossibility. Oddly I can get my head around that concept, although, and I’m not arguing with the good professor here, I always see a point further north.
So, maybe the time before the Big Bang was just further time. A different kind of reality… further reality in fact.
Maybe the further reality that seeps into my reality on a daily basis. The Surreal Reality. The best kind of further reality there can be!
I’ve brought the Big Bang theory into my little reality now. I have no shame. And I still can’t get my head around it.
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This is a new feature I’m trying out, …On Wednesday. Each Wednesday, I’ll tap into one of my Inner Aspects, and ask them to help me write about a topic (selected by the real me), in 500 words or less. First off, I asked my Inner Scientist about the Big Bang. He hasn’t a clue, as is apparent from the 500 words (exactly) above, but mentioned that he does like to be challenged to think outside of the box from time to time. This has got me thinking outside of more than one box at the same time. Like I said before. A living paradox. It’s always good to exercise the mind…
The Mansionic Perspective 
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