The Beginning

I suppose the proper way to start is to explain the beginning. How did it all get here? How is there a universe, a solar system, Earth, people and rats and trees? How did that all get there. Well to start at the beginning is difficult. The big bang is a nice theory, and the best available at the moment, as far as I know. However, the big bang theory explains the creation of the universe from something. How did the original something come into existence?

Let me try to explain this. You have a cake. You could tell me the ingredients, flour, sugar, eggs, ect. You could also tell me how the ingredients came into existence. The flour was wheat that was ground. The sugar was a cane that was harvested and processed. The eggs came from a chicken. You could probably even explain to me (with some research perhaps) how the wheat was raised, how the sugar was processed, and why the chicken lays an egg. Also you can tell me how to combine those ingredients, and how long to cook them to get a cake. To me the big bang lists the ingredients, explains the cooking method and how the ingredients were mixed, but fails to explain how the ingredients came into existence.

The religious man says that God put the ingredients here, or a truly religious man says god put the universe here. I cannot agree with either of these theories. Explanation for that will follow. For now I will ask you a question. What if there was no beginning, and will be no end. What if time, beginnings and ends are a human concept and nothing else?

Everything we see and observe has a begging and an end. We are only capable of comprehending what we can see and touch. We are only as big as our observable world. A child isolated in a rain forest would not be able to comprehend an automobile. You cannot think of a truly unique color or texture. Go ahead, try it.
I don’t want a bluish orange with a hint of pastel. I don’t want sort of fuzzy but also rough and pokey. I want an unseen truly new and unique color. I want an untouched unbelievably complex texture. You can’t do it, can you?

It is impossible. We can only translate what we see and touch. That is why the aliens in movies are always green sort of frog like looking beasts with snake eyes. That’s why our creatures of lore are huge lizards with the wings of a bird. We can twist and alter what we see and touch, but we cannot come up with something completely new. It is in-comprehensible and outside the means of the human mind.
So, the next question from you would be, if a child in the Amazon cannot comprehend an automobile because he/she has never seen one, how did the first car ever come into existence?

As I have already stated we are capable of taking what we observe and touch and using it a way that benefits us. The wheel probably came into existence when someone observed a rock or log roll down the hill. The internal combustion engine is a fire the burns quickly. These are over simplified examples, but everything that goes into building a car can be observed elsewhere. Did it take great ingenuity and complex use of these observations? Yes, but the human mind is capable of doing these sorts of things, for reasons I will try to explain later.

Ok, now the conclusion I was trying to draw here, if you think back far enough, is that one maybe there was no begging to universe. Maybe there has always just been a universe. Maybe in a cyclical motion of big bang, expansion, retraction into singularity, and big bang again. Or maybe there is another answer completely.
Here I will establish a reoccurring theme throughout this paper. Man does not have all the answers, but that does not mean they do not exist. Man believes he is in control of his life and the universe. That he should be able to figure out anything and comprehend everything. This may not be true.

There may be limits to what we can understand. We are the smartest beings here and have done a fine job of making sense of a lot of our world. But just as a child can’t understand many of things you do, perhaps we are incapable of understanding everything. Or, perhaps, we haven’t had nearly enough time. We’ve been here two hundred thousand years, society forty thousand years. Ten thousand years is probably about the extent of time we have been trying to understand our world.
While these numbers always seem immense, in the scope of all of history it is next to nothing. We’ve done more in the last five hundred years than in the fifty thousand before it. We may simply need more time to explain the unexplainable.

And so the ultimate conclusion I draw about the true beginnings, the birth of the universe is that we cannot say for certain. We may already have it explained; we may soon be able to explain it. Ultimately there is an answer, but perhaps not one mankind will ever know.
Unsatisfactory? I told you I was no professor, no great man. I just call it as I see it.