Assumptions on the Starting Point of the Universe

            As I recall my childhood days, I was a child back then with a mind that was always curious with a lot of things. Like how things work, what they can do, who made them, why are they made or how do they began.  It even crossed in my mind how did everything originate. What is there to be found when there is still nothing? How did everything come as it is today? I know all of these questions will be answered if I would only know how the universe started, the very beginning of all creation.

            During my first years in high school, we had a lesson about the theories regarding the origin of the universe and I’m glad for the additional knowledge I acquired. I learned that there are many theories but none of this is scientifically proven to be the exact answer.

             The following paragraphs will reveal to you the speculations believed to be the beginning of the universe taken from my notes.

DIVINE CREATION THEORY

    Religion and mythology have for long time proposed the “Creation Theory”. Creation refers to act or acts by which the world came into existence out of nothing and the source of creation is the God who has the ultimate power. It is considered that since the earliest times almost all societies have conceived of one or more accounts of creation.

BIG BANG THEORY

            A general theory held by many astronomers that the universe may have originated about 12-15 billion years ago as the result of a violent explosion of some primordial mass;  since then the universe has been expanding and evolving; refinement of the theory states that the universe is pulsating, expanding, and contracting every 80 billion years. From all of the theories, this is the most accepted one.

BIG CRUNCH THEORY

            It is the possible finale to a contracting universe when all the galaxies smash together. Scientists believed that the universe is expanding and galaxies are moving apart. If the gravity of all cosmic material restrained the outward push enough, the expansion could stop and the universe could began to contract. These could mean either the end of the universe in a “Big Bang” in reverse, or an endless series of expansion and contracts (a pulsating universe).

INFLATIONARY THEORY

            It includes the model of events involved in the rapid expansion of the universe in its first moments of creation as depicted in the Big Bang Theory and was developed by an American physicist Alan H. Guth in the early 1980’s.

STEADY STATE THEORY

            A general theory of some astronomers that holds that the universe has no beginning or end but remains much the same throughout time; like the Big Bang theory it holds that the universe is expanding, new matter is considered to be created from energy as hydrogen, which condenses and forms new stars and galaxies to maintain the Steady State of the universe.

OSCILLATION THEORY

            It says that every 60 000 000 000 years, a Big Bang occurs. In between, the universe expands, forming stars and galaxies, and then contracts, destroying them again. Gravity would cause the expansion of the universe to slow as the energy produced by the explosion decreases, and then bring the galaxies together as the universe contracts. The Big Bang, could perhaps have been going on forever, and could continue forever.       

            It is truly amazing that one of these theories might be the right explanation of the beginning of everything. Our universe that is so vast. So big that no one could even tell you its exact size and no one could even assure you that it has limits. I am really awe-inspired to our universe that I am so attuned to the TV shows concerning the universe like The Known Universe in the National Geographic Channel, one of my favorite channels.

            Our universe is full of mysteries like its beginning, on its undiscovered parts, on its size, on its limits, or on its planets, like are there still others besides us?

            I know time will come that all of these questions will be unraveled and be revealed to humankind.

            Is it impossible? I hope not.