Friday, September 5, 2008

The Great Equation

Ok. So here goes.
The Earth is a planet, spinning on an axis, roughly spherical. The particles of the Earth are not connected, but more like compressed, simultaneously being held in by the magical force of gravity (more than likely caused by the Earth’s massive core) and the being repelled by the equally magical centripedal force (more than likely caused by the rotation).
We think it’s all one big ball, but it’s just particles orbiting the center. And those particles have electrons that orbit nuclei. And beyond that, who knows how many orbiting bits.
To continue: The moon revolves around the Earth which in turn revolves around the sun which in turn revolves around a super-massive black hole in the center of our galaxy. Revolution by revolution by revolution, so is it safe to assume that the pattern doesn’t stop there? There is a theory that there is one point in the center of the universe, super-massive as hell, around which everything else turns. One single stationery point which exercises it’s own gravitational pull to give the universe a sembelance of order.
Now imagine that there are some masses near the stationery point. Can we safely assume that these masses will be dragged faster toward the point, colliding with it and eachother and making it even more massive, thereby adding to the gravitational power of the point? Making it able to pull in more and more mass from further and further out, eventually causing the universe to collapse in on itself.
This is called the Universal Collapse Event (UCE), and this would not be the first time it has happened. Remember the Big Bang? The sudden explosion of matter? According to scientists, this is what happens after a UCE. This is not our first universe. Nor will it be our last. Who knows how many we’ve had or will have.
Scientists have estimated that the next UCE will take place in another 900 billion years, but I’ve done the math myself. Measured the dense microwaves eminating from the center over a few years, seen the exponential growth on a day-to-day basis, carried the decimal and the universe ends today. At approximately 2:30, the gravity of the center will become so great that the galaxies will start colliding as they begin their speeding toward the one stationery point. Andromeda collides with the Milky Way collides with Erratz-13 and so on until we reach terminal velocity (at this point, we’ll already be dead, of course). Then it’s reset and it all starts over again.
2:30 this afternoon. That’s when I’ve estimated it starting. That’s what my math shows. Most scientists are off by 900 billion years. I assume they just don’t know what they’re talking about. That or they want to preserve the order so they aren’t telling anybody.
Most scientists would start getting depressed about this, thinking, “But there’s so much we don’t yet understand.” Not me. I think I get it. I mean, I know where they’re coming from. I used to be the same way: even human nature, which is a purely human invention, is a mystery. We fight wars we don’t understand for people we don’t know for rights or land we’ll never have. We work jobs to pay for things that we wouldn’t need if we didn’t have jobs to start with.
But, I got past all that and realized it’s all something we’re not supposed to figure out. I caught on that projectile motion, fluid motion, quantum mechanics, and everything is part of an equation that explains it all. And that equation also explains why such-and-such girl doesn’t like you, why this guy smokes, why this war is happening in wherever where such-and-such person is getting shot. Even the location on his body where the bullet enters and whether or not it goes out again are part of the equation. Everything contributes to everything, the universe is a clock with billions and billions of little parts. That’s why we can’t find the equation to explain it all. Right now, there are trillions of variables we can’t see, because the whole universe gives a little; however, as the UCE occurs, the variables will diminish with the universe.
That’s why I’m sitting at this table looking up at the sky, waiting for the world to end: so I can spend that last bit of life finding the equation, albeit greatly diminished to only a few variables. I know I can’t publish it. I know nothing will come of it. But I just want to know.
I watch my cigarette smoke in the ashtray, the smoke clouds whisping upward, floating toward the sky slowly in a way that only cigarette smoke can.
My prediction is that when it all starts, time will speed up greatly. In fact, time has been speeding up since it started long ago, but soon it will speed up exponentially. Of course, no one will notice since we’re in time-space with everything else, nonetheless that is my prediction. The smoke will continue to float, but were I able to observe it from outside the accelerating timeframe, I would see it burn up almost instantaneously.
At 2:28, the television starts the breaking news: the Andromeda Galaxy crashes into the Milky Way, an incident that is supposed to happen hundreds of billions of years from now. The news anchors call into question all of the various predictions of scientists. I smile, knowing that before the scientists will have time to rebut, it will all be over. I look back at the sky and wait for God to hand down the Great Equation.

1 comment:

Semaj Nosnibor said...

Mmmm, determinism. Yummy.