Is the universe really expanding???

[Diana]

Q'uo talks once about Creator's ever-increasing pleasure and agony.

I have a book by Brian Greene somewhere. He talks about p-Branes which are like universes from what I remember.

The book is probably The Elegant Universe, and it's branes, short for membranes, which are separate universes. It derives from String Theory.

While I don't like Q'uo's words (agony and pleasure) and I don't relate everything to a Creator, it makes some sense that the universe is expanding. As we accumulate thoughts and experience, that accumulation would conceivably add to the entirety of our existence—hence, expansion. And in observing what we can see of the universe, this idea is reflected in the physical with galaxies whirling away from a conceptual center—a result of the Big Bang. But it has always seemed to me the Big Bang theory was woefully one-dimensional, or more accurately, three-dimensional.  There are so many other conceivable, and inconceivable, aspects of "reality" at play.

But we really know nothing (or maybe I should say, very little) about our existence, and the subatomic world and its curiosities reveal that; our ideas of space, mass, how matter acts—are challenged to the point of making no sense at all within our current paradigms. So, is the universe expanding? I'm not sure our capacity to hold information, or the point at which we are able to apprehend any sort of comprehensive answer, has been reached yet in order to answer that question. And we can't help but to focus on what we see and apprehend as physical matter, and this bias inhibits expansion of our minds on the subject (no pun intended).



A more intriguing (and sometimes disturbing) question in my mind is: where is the universe? If it is expanding, accumulating bulk in some way, where is it expanding to? Where is the totality of everything? It's a lazy answer to me, to say it's infinite or multidimensional, because it means nothing to us here in 3D beyond an idea or a metaphor. And yet, I think it's good to stretch the intellect, and it's certainly fun to canvass theories on cosmology.  

Back to Brian Greene and The Elegant Universe, you can watch the PBS (really awesome) documentary on Youtube: