FREE ESSAY ON COSMOLOGY

COSMOLOGY

Cosmology
Cosmology has always been an interesting area of study for me. For as long as I can
remember, every time I look up at the night sky, a million questions pop into my head.
Questions such as "Is there an intelligent life out there?" "How large is space, does it
expand infinitely, if it does, what does it expand into?" These and many other questions
still plague my mind.
We can define Cosmology as the study of the heavens as a whole, including theories about
its origin, evolution, large-scale structure, and future. I would definitely agree to
this description, and would like to explain my point of view of the topics that Cosmology
covers.
Personally, I tend to believe that the big bang theory may have an explanation for the
current state of our universe. The idea that all of this exploded from a super mass isn't
too hard to believe. It gives good reason to the expansion of the universe, and the
360degree view of the universe (this because the explosion would have sent mass outward
in every direction), but I wouldn't think of it as the origin of the universe. I mean, in
my mind, something had to be there to cause this super mass. Was the universe contracting
until it formed this huge mass? I believe that we may never know how the universe came
about, rather have some idea as to what came directly before it's current state as well
as before that and so on. We could come up with ideas until we die, and someone would
just continue in our footsteps. I do have one idea as to how this super mass which is the
being behind the big bang theory came to be one mass. Scientists as well as philosophers
and just about anyone you talk to can tell you that the universe is still expanding
today, possibly because of the big bang. Though no one could tell you how this super mass
came to be, or how it originated. I believe that there is a never-ending cycle of the
expansion and contraction of the entire universe. The universe as we know it now is in a
state of expansion. Though there are millions of gravitational fields out there opposing
this expansion. What if there came a point in time where the force of expansion (caused
by the big bang) exhausted itself and the forces of gravity took over and began
contracting the universe back towards a center of equalized gravity and into a super
mass? (You could probably find a mass in the universe today that is the largest and has
the strongest gravitational force of any other mass, and name that the possible center of
a new super mass). We would then have an answer to the theory of a big bang, and there
would definitely be chaos in the distant future of Earth. Though, we still would have no
idea how any mass was formed, nor how it appeared in space. There is also still the
question of space, what is it, what is containing it if anything, how did it come about?
And many more questions like that. Maybe all of these questions can be answered with
death. They could be answered by proving the existence of God and asking these questions.
I personally believe in God. I want to tell myself that there is a being that gives us
some direction, while giving us free will to a certain extent. And while watching over
life, takes care of the universe. With all this belief, there is still a question in my
mind as to what came before anything and what came before that and so on. It's like the
question of the chicken and the egg, we could go on forever and still not be certain
which came first unless we get into evolution, but I'm looking for the principal of the
thing. This is why I believe that some things may be infinite. As far as infinity is
concerned, I believe that such a phenomenon exists, I mean how better to explain many
questions about the universe? I want to believe that somewhere, somehow there is a
beginning point for everything, but then what was the beginning of that point, and so on?
I believe that numbers, especially those measuring distance, can have infinite
capabilities. For instance, with the expansion or contraction of the universe, it is hard
to measure the exact distance between two galaxies at a given time. As long as the
universe is expanding or contracting, the measurement number will stay unfixed. Infinity
may just be a constant circle or figure eight of events, where something is stuck on
"replay", if you will. There still is the notion of a starting point in my mind that will
never rest.
I think that along with the known dimensions of reality, time can be added as another. I
believe that time exists in it's own dimension simply because without it, things would
not work correctly. I say this because we as educated beings adapted this form of
relevancy to things and we are used to it applying to just about everything we do or
experience. Timing is a big factor to everything working correctly and running smoothly.
Without time, there would be chaos, and many theories and explanations wouldn't be true
or work out right without time. So I see time as a whole complexity in itself and since
many things as we know them could not function without time, I believe that it has a part
in everything. Of course I could be wrong, I only see things as how the world is aware of
them, as for everyone else. I may not know that time only exists because we need it to in
order to function as a human race. 
For the subject of other intelligent life in the universe, I hope there is, otherwise we
are a complete freak of nature. If there is other intelligent life, then someday we will
learn of this and can look forward to contact. This would kill off that question that
lives inside our minds and bring some into happiness and others into fear. On the other
hand, if no such creature exists, existed, nor ever will exist, we shall not find it and
always carry an unanswered question with us. I do believe in other intelligent life out
there somewhere, and there is a possibility that they could be hostile towards us as well
as more technologically advanced, and vice-versa. The possibility that Earth could be the
only planet to ever sustain life is very low in my mind. We aren't even the proven
original inhabitants of this planet Earth. It is very possible that the first life form
that could have evolved into a human was brought here, to Earth by an asteroid, comet, or
meteor.