“Nope. It’s not that simple,” I thought. “Can’t be that simple.”
Yet there it was. Written in words by my own hand. “What if the Big Bang was actually the Big Rip?”
I stared at the words. “The Big Rip?”
How would we know? How could we know? We would be living inside the rip, inside the biggest phase change in the history of everything.
“For that matter, what if this isn’t the first Big Rip?” That thought left me sitting at my desk, staring out the window, and wondering if I suddenly had an explanation for dark matter, and dark energy, and what was beyond the edge of the universe. Because, suddenly, dark matter might turn into matter and mass, that didn’t change in the phase change. It would lie outside of our laws of physics. We couldn’t see it, or detect it. But it would still be there.
Dark energy would be the expansion of the original space that was being overwritten in the big rip. Space that could well have been expanding at an accelerating rate as an open universe. One that expanded forever. One where a big rip became inevitable in theory.
And the reason galaxies had appeared out of nowhere, fully formed was because they were already there, and the phase change made them visible.
I shook my head. “Nope. No way. It’s not that simple.”
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