My theory of life and the universe......?

Question

What do you think of this possibility?

The Big Bang is the first event in a chain reaction of causality, that lead to you being here today. If you ask how you are here, because your parents gave birth, because their parents gave birth, then look deeper - your ancestors are here because of the animals they evolved from, they are here because of the earth. The earth is here because of the universe, the universe is here because of a Big Bang.

Now ignore that you have free will, and everything you do is a chemical reaction in your brain that is responding to the events happening around you, every event leads back to the big bang. Therefore the inital state of the big bang defines every event after it, including your thoughts etc.

Now imagine that there was a "Big Crunch" followed by a second big bang. If this big bang happened in the exact same way as this big bang, then every event after it would happen in the same way and you would live your life again...

Answer 1

and they all lived happily ever after

Answer 2

Some people think they have the answer, but i think we are all guessing.  Would you consider writing a letter to Scientific American magazine about the Big Crunch.

Anyway,  i don't think i agree with you about the free will.

Answer 3

Very interesting... You are truly a thinker sounds like you and I could be very good friends... Your theory truly sound legit, however I think that instead of just stating basic possibilities there could be more detail in the creation of everything and what created everything... And the Big Crunch theory... I would like to know exactly what you mean a "Crunch"

Answer 4

You don't factor in uncertainty; so you are wrong.

Electrons don't orbit the nucleus as much as exist in a cloud around them, a cloud of indeterminate location.  The Heisenberg Uncertainty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg_... principle says that the mere act of measuring an electron changes its position so there is a lot of random nature in the universe.

No two events happen the same way, unless we work to make them happen the same way.  Entropy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy) is the property of the universe that makes everything tend toward chaos so it too works to randomize things.

If you have a big crunch and start all over then the meteor that caused the KT Mass Extinction may not have hit the earth or some dinosaurs could have survived.  In that case humanity would never have had the chance to evolve, making our little corner of the universe very different.  Meteor collisions are random events and a slight change in orbits can cause a miss.

We don't know what chance will bring out, or where things will diverge.  In your new universe the events that caused life to start may not even happen and there is no evidence that we are not alone or that there are other life forms in the universe.  Your new universe could be empty of life; we just don't know what will happen.

Every time a chemical reaction takes place it does so in a slightly different way over time those differences mount up and they can create a huge difference; the chances of an exact repeat are next to zero; free will or not.  I agree with your first paragraph, but not your third.  I also don’t think that you can factor out free will so easily.

Einstein once said that he refused to believe that God played dice with the universe, we now know that not only does he, but he can hide the results in black holes.

Another error in your theory is that you require a steady state universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_Stat... for it to work; the idea that all matter will fall into black holes and over time they will all collect together joining to form one black hole that would then explode into another universe.  Because of Hawking radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_rad... black holes die, and because of entropy the universe will tend to chaos and everything will over a huge amount of time spread out into a huge cloud of cold and disorganized matter.  Nothing lasts forever, eventually even the universe will die and we don’t know of a way to replace it, or even if there is a way.  It will all end in the heat death of the universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_...  The universe is expanding and due to the ever increasing rate of expansion the force of gravity won’t be strong enough to form a collapse to let the universe reform, so there will be no second big bang because their will never be another “big crunch.”

Answer 5

Interesting question. Would events  after the second bang follow the same course as events after the first bang. I think the diversity of matter and the complexity of different forces would possibly produce an entirely different second universe, but no-one knows (yet) so you may be right.

Answer 6

I'm afraid people have beat you to this and been discredited already:

Good books on this on other theories:

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-God-Scientifi...

http://www.amazon.com/Parallel-Worlds-Jo...

Answer 7

Interesting theory but what would keep us from rememberig the past universe?

Usually I remember the night before. Not always but if it's not the weekend, pretty much.

Answer 8

The laws of physics break down at a singularity so you can't necessarily say it would turn out the same at each big bang. I do agree with your thinking of how the Big Bang is the first part in a chain and everything after only happens because that is how it will happen. That includes "free will."