The Big Bang Cycle

I personally think that most things in nature are cyclical. And because of this, I have a theory which postulates that the universe might actually be much, much older than we think.
How so? Glad you asked.

It is currently an established fact that the universe is expanding. This was arrived at after astronomers noted the "red shift". Exactly what is this "red shift"? Too complex for me but I think it has something to do with how the light spectrum is observed when something moves away from you. Anyway, universe ==> expanding.
And if it is expanding, then it must be expanding FROM somewhere, i.e. there should be some centre of expansion or something. This is where it leads us to the theory of the Big Bang.

As we all know, the Big Bang theory says that all matter in the universe was focused and compacted into a very small space and it exploded and pushed everything outwards. The expansion that we are observing today is the continuation of the initial blast. And generally, the age of the universe is defined as the time transpired after the Big Bang.
But what was going on BEFORE that?

Well, to discuss that, we'll need to digress a little.
Einstein's theory of relativity has this "rule" that if you start at a point in space and travel in a straight line (or what you think is a straight line anyway), then eventually, after a LONG time, you will end up at the place you started. Interesting, isn't it.

SO, if a Big Bang started the whole thing, then given a long enough time, all matter would converge back into the same spot again. There might be collisions and whatnot but as the matter congregate, so would their gravitational field. Maybe black holes will come into play. Whatever. End of the day, if Einstein's theory holds true, then everything will converge, collapse under one immense gravitational field into a highly compact and dense entity.

Then what happens? The entity explodes and starts throwing everything outwards again and thus restarting the cycle. And THAT is why I think the universe might really be a lot older than we think. There might have been several cycles of Big Bangs already.
Now doesn't it just blow your mind when you think about it...?

Astrology

I have often wondered about how astrology came to be. Who created this theory and why did they think it was possible to tell the future by looking at the stars and other celestial bodies? More importanly, why did people buy into it?

While I haven't gotten around to finding out how astrology was invented, I had definitely spent some time thinking about how it can be explained. Keep an opened mind here.

Imagine if you are a dog. All your life, you have observed what goes on around you and over time, you realized that you can "tell what's going to happen". How? That strange apparatus high up on the wall with the 2 needles and lots of symbols are key to your observation. Whenever the sky is bright and the shorter needle lines up with the "8" symbol and the longer one touches the "12" symbol, things start to happen. The door to the house opens and you get to run out. While basking in the sun, a man tosses a roll of paper at you. Not long after that, when you decide to return to the house, there are bottles of milk on the porch.

Of course this is just a very simple illustration. To the dog, the newspapers and the milk appears BECAUSE the needles line up. The door opens BECAUSE the needles line up. And if there are forces strong enough to move the needles to where they need to be, those same things will occur. Now imagine time on a much larger scale than "daily". And then imagine the positions of planets and stars as some kind of a cosmic clock. I guess things will begin to make some sense.

Throughout history, man has made observations and, over time, through recordings and documentation of observations handed down through the ages, man concluded that things happen whenever planets align or fit a particular pattern. The cycles may occur over hundreds, even thousands, of years but man realized that some of the predictions based on such observations actually come true.

So does this mean that events and things occur in cycles? Does this mean that everything in life is somewhat routine? Perhaps so. If you look around you, "cycles" are a part of everything, be it natural, man-made or otherwise. From the rotation of the earth to the changing of the seasons to the flow of water and even life itself. We can't really see the cosmic cycle because of how short our time on earth is. But because of the "clock" and what our predecessors have recorded that they have seen, we can paint a picture of what to expect.

Of course, not everything we predict will come true because it might just be random chance that they occured at "8am" previously. But those that do occur in cycles, we might be spot on.

I guess if we look at things this way, it doesn't seem so far fetched any more that astrology might have a somewhat plausible explanation. What do you think?

Here we go.

I have a lot of theories on how the universe works and I like to preserve and share them on a blog. Before anyone jumps to conclusions, I'm just an average joe and not some nuclear physicist or rocket scientist. What I post here are things I consider to be fun, and yet for some odd reason, appeals to my sense of logic and makes me believe in them. Perhaps some day, some REAL brilliant minds will see these theories and extrapolate them into world changing ideas. Maybe there might even be a Nobel Prize or two that spawns off of what I have to say. (Can't blame me for dreaming. Like I said, this is for fun.)

I'll talk about things on all kinds of scale. Some might be scientific, some might be superstitions and some will just be silly and fun. But they all originate from my head. If anything is built off of someone else's ideas, I'll duly acknowledge them. So sit back and enjoy the ride.
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