Construct of the Universe

Atoms are primarily empty, therefore matter can be infinitely crushed; there are no limits. We know this because when a very high-mass star collapses from no longer being able to generate fusion energy to maintain itself, it can cause a black hole. This celestial phenomenon occurs when the volume and weight of the star cause a collapse so fast that it does not form a neutron star but keeps collapsing all the way to a singularity.

While theoretically, a black hole is the bending of space, I would suggest that it is far simpler than that. A black hole is maximum density gravity held together by the pull of the singularity. It has a hole because of external gravitational influences, including a supermassive black hole in the middle of a galaxy it could be orbiting around. If matter goes over the lip of the hole (the event horizon), it gets added to the singularity. If too much matter is added to this singularity for the size of the black hole, it will be jettisoned out of a smaller hole at the bottom.

So what did we have prior to the Big Bang? There was a singularity, and because there were no other external gravitational influences, it was surrounded by an astronomically large supermassive black ball – no hole. The question remains, are we still inside this black ball? Would the Big Bang have deconstructed it, or is the universe so small compared to the size of the black ball that the Big Bang made no difference? After all, there is still the same amount of mass and weight inside the black ball as there was before the Big Bang; and black holes are not easily deconstructed because they are not destabilised by adding more matter via the event horizon, highlighting their strength, be it a black hole or black ball.

I was born in Melbourne, Australia. One of the landmarks of that city is the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG); every cricket fan around the world knows it. It is a stadium that holds a capacity crowd of 99,000 people. There are bigger stadiums around the world, but this is one where I have watched football and the Rolling Stones.

Let’s pretend the MCG is round in every direction, not just the stands and walls. Let’s also imagine that it is made of gravity and has a singularity in the middle. Next comes the Big Bang, and so the singularity starts to expand. Then, 13.7 billion years on, the singularity continues its expansion into a universe the size of a small ball bearing (we are 13.7 billion years beyond the Big Bang). Would this ball-bearing-sized universe have much of an impact on the gravity walls of the MCG?

Perhaps our small ball-bearing-sized universe continues to expand. By the time it is as big as a Ping-Pong ball, the impetus in its expansion has weakened, and the gravity walls of the MCG are beginning to show signs of destabilisation. As all of the mass and weight are still inside this imaginary MCG, with little left of the original outward motion generated by the Big Bang, it would allow the gravity walls to push back, and again be the dominant force. This domination would cause our Ping-Pong-sized universe to again collapse back into a singularity until the next Big Bang. I understand we are from the sixth Big Bang.

How would the night sky look if we were inside a black ball? You could go outside tonight and make up your own mind. Are we still in it? If the answer is yes, then we know there are no other universes that contain any matter, or else we would have a hole in the black ball caused by the gravitational pull between universes. The black hole would allow for matter and light from outside the universe to come in, which does not happen. Additional matter would also disrupt our universe, re-establishing the singularity and possibly ejecting excess mass out of a hole in its base.

I remember reading a book about a man who had out-of-body experiences. He travelled a long way across the universe only to find an impenetrable black wall. It did not matter how far he travelled along the wall, he could not get through or around it. I wonder, was this the inside wall of the black ball that defines the outer limit of our universe? This impenetrability helps to identify that maximum density gravity is the most solid structure in the universe while nothing happens to destabilise it. We also cannot see through it because at such an immense density, it is black. It also begs the question, what is on the other side? The only being or thing in the universe that can venture outside it is God, suggesting that there are more dimensions than we understand.

Another approach to the universe is to ask God, so I did. I asked Him if He has any brothers or sisters, any parents or if He has a God. I expected to be ignored, but that was not the case; I got a response. God said, “Mind your own business.”

God understands my sense of humour and knew I would see the funny side of His reply. He is a most loving God and wants all of us to experience His love. For the next two years, every time I thought about it, I laughed. On a more serious note, there is depth to the answer and is deserving of contemplation because if He does have parents or siblings, they are outside of this universe. Yet there are no other universes made of matter; multi-verses are for comic books and the fantasy genre.

Mettanandamark