Before the begining

Starting a book, "In the beginning..." is a good place to start. But assuming there is a beginning, does that not automatically mean that there must be time before it?

The assumption that "the big bang" had to be "before time" is mystical. It is also possible that multiple big bangs have occurred. It would be rather difficult to find traces of the echo of another universal era, but it is logical that matter may collapse and reassert itself as a sort of very very very long term rhythm. That atomic particles in their current state are merely a state of existence, and their collapse or intervening spaces are a variable, not constant but are modulated upon a chain of "direction" - which can also be called "time". The growth of the universe is one "direction" and the contraction of it again is another "direction".

The beauty of this model is that the changed states are so vast and so tiny, its all rather musical. It implies some grand scale plan. Of course it is entirely fictional. But the idea that particles create a destiny of expansion in their very structure and inter-tolerance causing time to swing back like a great pendulum is at the least, intriguing. The universe is a great pulsing organism. That it may be just one of millions of similar organisms in one of many seas is just the start of a vision of the infinite.

This TED demonstration seems to illustrate that things can behave in ways unexpected by common experience. These animated creatures are in fact just straws and bottles or other common objects. Designed by a da Vinci crossed with a McGuyver.

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