THE FIRST PARADIGM WORLDVIEW

Pillars of Belief

The Cosmological Question:

How did our physical universe first come into being, and what are the physical laws that govern its past, present, and future functioning?

The physical universe came into being in one blinding flash that we refer to as the Big Bang. There is no way for us, as human beings, to tell how or why the physical universe came into being by means of this Big Bang, or what was going on before the physical universe came into its physical being, since all we have at our disposal to determine these things are personal experiences of our five physical senses and our common sense, which only experience things that have a physical manifestation.

The physical universe in which we find ourselves embedded appears, to our five senses and common sense, to be nothing more than a  of a finite number of ultimately irreducible integers of physical matter. Each such ultimately irreducible integer of physical matter within this random collection of irreducible units of matter is moving out and away from every other unit of matter.

Thus, each and every one of these single units of matter that is bonded together with one or more units of matter to form a combination of matter that is larger than a single quantum field (units such as a muon, neutron, proton, atom, rock, tree, animal, human being, planet, star, galaxy, galaxy cluster, or any other combination of matter) is in the active process of disintegrating into a finite number of ultimately irreducible, individuated quantum fields of physical matter.

The Big Bang was not a simple explosion that erupted from a physical point at the center of a physical sphere that was later to constitute our physical universe. Rather, this Big Bang was the instantaneous manifestation of a physical force that caused every single ultimately irreducible integer of physical matter in the entire physical universe (i.e., every single such quantum field) to emit an instantaneous force of repulsion out and away from every other such quantum field at the exact same instant, thus constituting a universal and center-less explosion.

The momentum or impetus imparted upon every single ultimately irreducible integer of matter in the physical universe by this initial Big Bang continues to manifest itself at this very instant in the expansion of every single quantum field within our physical universe moving out and away from every other quantum field.

A second force continues to manifest itself at this very instant in the constant atomic breakdown of each and every element of physical matter in our physical universe into its ultimately irreducible sub-particles of matter (i.e., into its sub-component constituent quantum fields) to exponentially multiply the rate of expansion of our universe. When the impetus or momentum that was imparted upon each of these ultimately irreducible integers of matter at the moment the Big Bang occurred is spent, every single ultimately irreducible integer of matter in the entire physical universe will stand separate and apart from every other one.

There will become a point at which each ultimately-irreducible integer of a physical matter’s quantum field is far enough away from each other quantum field in the universe that they no longer affect each other in any meaningful way. These ultimately-irreducible integers will then continue to move out and away from each other so much so that the universe returns to being empty, void, and in a state of complete nothingness.

That is, there will be nothing in the entire physical universe except each separate, individual, and ultimately-irreducible quantum field of physical matter standing apart from each other and continuing to move out and away from each other into infinity.

Therefore, the only reality that exists is material reality, and all reality exists only within the confines of our physical universe. Outside of our physical universe can only be conceptualized as an infinite and eternal abyss with nothing in it, not even a single quantum field of physical matter. Such nothingness spreads out and away from the physical confines of our universe infinitely and eternally.