The beginning of the universe began with the Big Spread. All the matter in the universe was at its most furthest point away from all other things, even at an atomic level. Due to the potential energy that could be created by imploding, everything began to clump together. From the black holes spew light that gently spread outwards, allowing glimpses of the distant future like a drop of ink in water. Clouds in space begin to appear, gradually growing brighter over millions of years as they begin to gather together before suddenly appearing as a sphere. The giant blue and red stars cover the night sky like pearls on black velvet. Some of these shrink, revealing hot desert planets, inhospitable to all life. From the Big Spread, things began to come together. Moons, asteroids, planets, stars. The galaxies begin to form, beginning a whirlwind dance that will last for billions of years. On some planets life begins to emerge, forming itself in the air from the dust, ancient corpses begin to slowly grow across entire planets. And from death, comes life.
The history of humanity has been a long and arduous one, but look how far we have come. From various strands in the galaxy our species begin to descend back towards our solar system, although progress is much slower now than it ever was then. The simplification of technology has been going on for thousands of years and is only just beginning to show signs of slowing down. It’s thought by the year 2000 we won’t have the internet.
The way in which we have lead our lives hasn’t changed much. Some of us begin our lives in a care home and go on to collect a pension for a number of years. Our partners are some of the first to come back from the dead, maybe our parents a couple of decades later. We get to know our children better, watching them grow older and older until they are unborn back from where all of life ends. We ourselves gradually grow older, starting in jobs with a lot of responsibility and making our way up the career ladder to a position with little to no responsibility. A few of us are rolled out of the crematorium much older, our bodies reforming from the very air around us and within a couple of days awaken in hospitals and emergency rooms, driven by ambulances to terrific accidents that revert the body back to health.
It is thought by some that the universe will end in a Big Crunch, following the concept of entropy: All systems will evolve into order. All matter in the universe will become warmer and nearer together, this process accelerating until all matter in the universe collapses into a single point. What happens after this? Nobody knows. There is no time after this moment. Everything is as it should be, in its most basic and simplistic form that would take up the same space as a coconut or perhaps a melon. Scientists have hypothesised that following this huge implosion that there will be an explosion; all of matter will shoot outward again. Maybe time itself would reverse. Although consciousness exists in a strange dimension outside of space and time, you only have to look from one star to another to see that you can (theoretically) move great distances without following the laws of nature. Who knows what the inhabitants of this theoretical universe may experience?
