13.7 BILLION YEARS AGO, THE BIG BANG KICKED THINGS OFF
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13.7 BILLION YEARS AGO, THE BIG BANG KICKED THINGS OFF.
In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the distances to far-away galaxies were proportional to their redshifts. Subsequent calculations have dated this Big Bang to approximately 13.7 billion years ago.
The last event of this current big bang event will be when the final black holes decay away. The universe will then die from heat death. At that point, mechanical motion within the Universe will have ceased.
Then, entropy’s final disorder will take it all away. Time has been stopped, one more time again.
In the meantime, we are ruled by the 24 hour day; we are synced to that. The day/night cycle rules us. It takes the earth 24 hours to spin once around. It takes the world one year to rotate once around the sun. When the earth’s axis wobbles too much, an ice age occurs.
The universe started with low entropy. The maximum entropy of the universe and the actual entropy of the universe measure the free energy left in the universe to drive all processes.
Acquiring life:
Filaments of matter, under pressure, light up the sky. Gravity puts pressure on the clumps of matter. Nuclear furnaces ignite. Galaxies are born, stars die to seed their elements into other chunks of matter. Supernovas explode to plant the heavier elements. Solar winds flow things away, friction abounds. Countless galaxies of stars and planets are born. We show up with our known thought.
Acquiring food for us:
For those of us who overcome evil, our consciousness is a part of the harvest. We get to go on, elsewhere,
The accelerated expansion of our universe started eight billion years ago. Galaxies start evaporating away. All that is left are red and white, mostly dead stars. They too, will slip into oblivion. At the same time, black holes are eating everything up. Then, they decay also and are gone.
Entropy rules until the end, my friend.
Dark energy slowly causes gravity to lose its universal grip. Gravity and energy form an uneasy truce. Eventually, things go dark. Dark Energy wins again.
