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Who believes that the universe and everything contained in it is in constant motion; orbiting and revolving?

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Starting from the big bang, everything in the universe had a common starting point so in a way everything is connected. Causing one to possibly connect the statement "What goes around comes around" with these provable facts". Possibly relating it to the orbit of a planet, a particle of space dust, or maybe even a person's behavior.

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  1. As some wise philosopher has said, "The only thing that is constant in life is change." You might say that is the destiny of 'matter' and all life forms, to be constantly moving from one state to another. Since I'm not a scientist I have little else to add to this.  


  2. That essentially is what we could affirm and deduce of this vast universe - through science or simple observations. Yet, much of the universe is not accessible to the naked eyes, not to our most advance machines, nor to the most intelligent of our minds.

    At various levels, chaotic behaviors of nature render our perspectives and knowledge inadequate to explain everything accurately.  It seems that universals could not be applied to rule out all exceptions because of their finite limited nature.


  3. Every thing is in motion. An atom is always in constant motion. Even if an atom is frozen to absolute zero it is still moving. A person's behavior moving is out of my category.  

  4. In order to describe something as being in motion, it must have a point of reference.  We don't just move; we move "with respect" to something else.  For example, the earth doesn't simply revolve, it revolves "around the sun".  The universe, therefore, cannot move because there is nothing outside the universe to serve as a point of reference.

    Furthermore, a point of reference must have a position, but similar to motion, position requires a point of reference.  The earth's position is not simply one astronomical unit, but rather one astronomical unit "from the sun".  The point of origin of the universe seems like a natural reference for the position of everything within the universe, but if the position of everything is with respect to the origin, what would the position of the origin be with respect to?

    Despite these problems, I do not deny that everything is in motion, but that will not always be the case.  As motion occurs, heat dissipates, and the entropy of the universe increases.  No matter how much time and energy we spend trying to decrease entropy, we can only do so "locally", and the process of doing so actually increases the total entropy of the universe.  One day, this entropy will reach a critical maximum, and everything in the universe will come to a complete stop.

    So yes everything is in constant motion, and yes everything is connected in some way.  But no, not everything that goes around will always come around because eventually everything dies.  Even the electrons in atoms will freeze in place, with no energy left to even shiver in the frozen wasteland of existence.

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