The Universe
It was on a quiet starry night like this so long ago that I looked up at the sky and wondered, what is really out there? I was a child back then, but that’s when it all started. This passion for astronomy, the desire to know more about what’s really out there, a yearning for the truth behind it all. Just last week in astronomy class my professor started lecturing about the position of the Milky Way relative to Andromeda and proof of the Big Bang and so forth. My mind started to wander once he started going on about Pluto and other KBOs and their 3:2 orbit resonance with Neptune and some other stuff. Everything he said after that became a blur. I began to think to myself about what he had said previously about our position relative to everything else in the universe.
What if our galaxy is within an infinite number of “galaxies?” What I mean is what if our galaxy is like a grander version of our solar system? In other words, the solar system is a minute speck in the Milky Way galaxy. Our galaxy is one of many galaxies in the universe. What if each galaxy in the universe was the equivalent of a “solar system” among many solar systems in an even grander structure, and that grander structure is a spec of another network in an even greater system…? True, one cannot know or even fathom to comprehend these things. It is beyond the limited human knowledge and understanding.
Just the other night, I bumped into this article titled, “Every Black Hole Contains Another Universe?” This particular reading further set my thoughts in motion. What if a black hole is, in essence, a portal to yet another universe? Curious theory, but quite possible.
So what exactly is the universe? Infinitely expanding? One of an infinite number of universes inside of an infinite number of universes? Can entering a black hole lead to yet another universe…? Can there truly be such a thing as “another universe?”
Then part of me wonders, if there is a god, where does he reside? I am almost certain that he does not reside on Mount Olympus nor on the Moon or in the Sun. So where is he? In the Kuiper Belt? In the Oort Cloud? At the center of the Milky Way? In Andromeda? Outside of the realm of the universe? Through a black hole in yet another universe? Or, from a pantheistic view of things, is he one with the universe?
