I am by trade an HVAC/R Master Craftsman. What that means is I do understand a lot of math, physics, and observation, but in no way means I am an expert in the topic(s) I am about to dive into.
The Big Bang didn’t happen:
I know that’s an explosive statement to open with, right? Next you will probably expect me to spout on about how a chosen deity created everything…right? Not really. Leaving religion on the side, I know that if something explodes, especially in a vacuum with absolutely no obstructions, the particles go directly out from the central point of the explosion at the exact same velocity. If the Big Bang occured it would stand to reason that this would hold true, but then how do galaxies collide? If everything is going directly outward from a central singularity that implies that everything just gets further apart and thus nothing should collide.
So how do we explain colliding galaxies? Easy answer is a deity did it or there were multiple Big Bangs…over there, and there, maybe one here, and way over there.
Space is vast, so vast that no one truly comprehends just how vast, so it is very possible there were multiple singulatities that have popped off. Something to add to the vastness of space is that time and space are infinite in all aspects, using our human measuring we could have negative infinity BCE as well as positive infinity CE leaving plenty of time for multiple singularities to pop off and for some to have not occured yet.
The Multi Bang theory explains how galaxies collide when they should only be getting further apart.
We really don’t know how far away other solar systems and galaxies are:
When someone says “the Illudium galaxy is 50 lightyears away” that is not a definitive measurement…it is the best mathematical guess they have. We have experiments that have clocked the speed of light on Earth, but through interstellar space we actually have no idea what its speed is. Does it travel ever so slightly slower or faster? Over the span of a lightyear a variance in speed of 0.001 could be quite a bit of distance. We theorize that time slows and stretches as you approach a singularity, so how long does it take light to leave a super deep gravity well of a neutron star? The amount of time it takes light to escape a gravity well would cause a calculation error in distance, wouldn’t it? Now how about time fluctuations as that light skips around the gravity wells of other systems–be they seen or unseen–between Earth and the Illudium galaxy? I mean, we know mathematically that light is beant around some galaxies as it travels to Earth, but how long is that detour? Is there interstellar traffic as it travels roundabout these galaxies? We all have experience with driving distances on a beltway as opposed to directly through major cities.
Dark matter:
Personally, I think it is just that, matter that is dark. I fail to see why you could not have an entire star system with planets that just never reached critical mass to ignite. Brown dwarfs have a lot of mass, but never ignite so how many are out there is a question we won’t know the answer to because we can’t see them any more than we can see a cat in a dark cave. We know the cat is there because we hear it, but we can’t see it. We know dark matter is there because we see its gravity pull, but we can’t see it. To me I think we are looking for a special piece of matter as opposed to something mundane and normal. I know there are people who say dark matter has to exist because there isn’t enough matter in the Universe, but to me that is speculation because we can’t account for the entirety of the Universe.
Advanced alien life:
Many people think there must be advanced life in space, but what if we are the advanced life in space? I know there are mathematical models that say how much intelligent life should be in the visible universe, but we could still be the advanced sentient race and the rest have not caught up. Technically by math there is no life in the universe as a finite number of individuals divided by infinity equals zero–see how math works? We seriously could be the beings that showed up early to the intelligent life party to hang the decorations, or we could be the late arrivals that have stayed to clean up, but for now the evidence suggests we are early to the intelligent life party. In a million years we may well find we are the eldridge beings that strike terror into other races that stumble upon us.
