The Big balloon

The instinct of selfpreservation is a fundamental instinct which is normally used by biologists to define the major driving force behind the natural selection. But it can also be seen in a wider perspective – as a major driving force behind all being. If we look back on the previously articles about non-existance there is a interesting question we have to ask our selves – how can science answer the mystery about the time before time? The answer I give to that question is that science alone can not do that. The natural sciences has one fundamental criterion – a theory must have the ability to be proven true or false in a test. That is the main problem with the natural sciences. How do you test theories (for example ”Quantum Physics”) based on mathematic calcules? How do you laborate with theories about occations before or after time? As I said – you don´t! The theories are not able for experimental laborations. That is why philosophy take over where the natural sciences leave the field. I will give an illustration of what I mean with the philosophical over hand in this issue. But first – philosophy does not function allone in the dark without the natural sciences as its guiding light. Lets have this thing clear when we talk about philosophy. Imagine the Universe as a big balloon [see: illustration 1:0]. At the time of the Big Bang this balloon was smaller than the smallest neutron. No time or space occured outside this balloon embryo. Actually the embryo was all time, all space, all energy and all mass at once. When the bubble blew up – the Universe as we now know it took shape. Gas clustered into stars that clustered into galaxies. The surface of this cosmic balloon is created of pure timespace. All over the balloon small dots of megagalaxies shines like minimal pearls. In one of these megagalaxies might our own galaxy ”The milky way” be found, and in the outskirts of this galaxy might our own sun ”Sol” be found. The third planet from the sun is the adress where you can find me and you because this is the Earth ”Tellus”. Imagine how this is held together by the pure gravity from all the mass in the entire Universe – an immense power. The timespace-balloon first blows up by the nuclear explosive powers of the first embryo, the protoplasmic core. It increases into a enormous size. Then the gravity starts to take over. The increasing size of the bubble starts to slow down, until the process billions and billions of years later stops and revers. The balloon decreases, drawn togheter by the accelerating power of the gravity until the whole balloon collapses in a cataclysmic Big Crunch and becomes – Nothing. This is very vaguely how I imagine the birth, life and death of our Universe. But, in order to understand the whole process and the reason why I recognise it as a fairly pleasant scenario we have to rewind the tape and go back in time to the spot where it all started. Or, just before..