Could the universe be a heart beat?

Before you say anything, I know that the big crunch is unaccepted due to the increasing speed in the universe's expansion.

But just imagine the big crunch happens. The universe expands (big bang) and retract (the big crunch). It'll do this forever. As for what it's pumping: perhaps energy, or matter, or simply spacetime itself.

To us it seems way too slow to be a heart beat, but that's just because we are very very small

I'll add that each beat is a beginning of a completely different spacetime. Big bang = point 0 of spacetime, but it isn't the first time it pumped. Like I said, completely separate spacetimes.

Maybe it's a geyser instead

The Sum of Awe said:

Before you say anything, I know that the big crunch is unaccepted due to the increasing speed in the universe's expansion.

But just imagine the big crunch happens. The universe expands (big bang) and retract (the big crunch). It'll do this forever. As for what it's pumping: perhaps energy, or matter, or simply spacetime itself.

To us it seems way too slow to be a heart beat, but that's just because we are very very small

I'll add that each beat is a beginning of a completely different spacetime. Big bang = point 0 of spacetime, but it isn't the first time it pumped. Like I said, completely separate spacetimes.

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You are tremendously imaginative
and I like that.

Hey Sum.

Using your philosophy that the big bang/crunch is a heartbeat..

Do you think the universe therefore is a chamber of sorts by which it's pumping something, or rather the blood by which the heart beats?

I like that analogy. I believe in a cyclic universe.

I also like the idea of a cyclic universe. There may be spiritual parallels too. I have long been drawn to the idea of nirvana but could never really accept it as truly permanent. To me it would eventually run out of energy and the whole process starts again.

The Sum of Awe said:

Before you say anything, I know that the big crunch is unaccepted due to the increasing speed in the universe's expansion.

But just imagine the big crunch happens. The universe expands (big bang) and retract (the big crunch). It'll do this forever. As for what it's pumping: perhaps energy, or matter, or simply spacetime itself.

To us it seems way too slow to be a heart beat, but that's just because we are very very small

I'll add that each beat is a beginning of a completely different spacetime. Big bang = point 0 of spacetime, but it isn't the first time it pumped. Like I said, completely separate spacetimes.

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This is technically known as the oscillating universe.

I think the astrophysicists usual problem stated with imagining our universe as a smaller part of a larger organism is the speed of light. Like the matter would decay before any signals could be transferred across the organism.

But I'm sure there's creative solutions.

Bobbyh said:

I think the astrophysicists usual problem stated with imagining our universe as a smaller part of a larger organism is the speed of light. Like the matter would decay before any signals could be transferred across the organism.

But I'm sure there's creative solutions.

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It's only true within the universe (our specific universe). We know that space itself can expand faster than the speed of light.

I think of it this way. In a computer game, you play a game that's running on a CPU with a specific frequency (speed of its clock, which dictates its max speed of executing operations). If we imagine that the characters in the game had souls and could experience their world and their time, then your time (as a gamer), outside of the computer, is completely different than the time a "creature" within the game would experience it. You could technically (which we did in the 80's on the old computers) speed up and slow down the clock or the timer in the game to make the game go faster or slower, or to allow it rendering better images because it was faster. And so on. So even if there's a max speed within our universe, the speed "outside" of the universe would be completely different than ours.

Functions a bit more like a pancreas.