WHIMPER, NO BANG

An item published at the Phys.org Website last year suggests that there may have been no "beginning" (nor "end") to our Universe, as there was no singular "Big Bang" but perhaps several "bangs" that kept spewing matter and energy outward, thus driving the known continuing expansion of the Universe, now attributed to a sort of anti-gravity "dark energy":

http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html

I feel vindicated, since I have been suggesting as much for years!  The singular "Big Bang" theory seems to serve the earnest hopes and wishes of those who insist that there is a anthropomorphic, self-conscious being-force ("God") that created the Universe.  I think an eternal, infinite Universe, driven ever outward by multiple "bangs" tends to contradict such notions.  I am not here denying the existence of a Creation Force; I am merely doubting its humanoid nature!

Many physicists have concluded, on the basis of only what "background radiation" our instruments can CURRENTLY measure, that THE "Big Bang" occurred some 14 Billion years ago, but there may be reason to think that the Universe is at least a TRILLION years old or perhaps is infinite.  Recorded history has demonstrated, time and again, that our understandings (and the resultant age predictions) keep going farther and farther back as more sensitive instruments are developed.  In other words, we've come a long way, Baby, from Galileo's telescope (at least until the "experts" screwed it up by confusing metric and English measurements, as with the initial mis-focus of the Hubble telescope)!  And, we are definitely a long way from the estimate in the Hebrew Torah that the "Garden of Eden" story had its conclusive creational say about 8500 years ago!

It has simply made no sense to me that the Universe should have a presumed age, before which, simply, no TIME even existed!  I can grasp the notion of a sort of "black hole" singularity where all matter and energy and time itself are compressed into a single, finite point which then explodes, spewing creation outward.  Consider the sheer size and complexity of the Universe: billions and billions of galaxies in the night sky, our Milky Way galaxy, a medium-sized galaxy with millions if not billions of stars and solar systems, being 100,000 light-years across (a single light-year is 5.8 TRILLION miles)!  It is naïvely presumptuous to assert that NOTHING existed before "time" and "existence" itself were created with a sole "Big Bang"!

OF COURSE I cannot "prove" any of this, but I think it is healthy to doubt the Conventional Wisdom on this issue.  Others have certainly made a persuasive mathematical case for the "multiple bangs" theory!

This also ties into my latest "theory" of gravity, that gravity is not a force that PULLS matter together but is, in fact, a manifestation that astronomical bodies will expand AWAY from each other by the force of "dark energy" UNLESS they get too close to one another, in which case the all-surrounding "dark energy" PUSHES them together!  If we assume that such dark energy is as "efficient" as possible (most energies are), then it's a lot easier to push one bigger, conjoined body away from all the others than to push two separate, smaller bodies.  That dark energy favors convenient "gravitational" collisions, much as electrical energy searches for multiple juicy grounds (i.e., the cows standing under a tree) during an electrical storm!

(I really like exploding things!)