Astrophysics
Cosmic Neuron: Origins of the Cosmos
We’ve all heard it before. The prevailing theory of the formation of the universe, the Big Bang, that everything we currently know exists in the universe was collapsed down to a extremely small speck before it exploded and gave birth to everything we now see. In Neil deGrasse Tyson’s book, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, he says the speck was around a third of the size of a period at the end of the sentence. That’s incredibly small. Yet everything we have mapped to date is so vast.
Many religions around the world recognize one or more gods, creators of everything, from whom all life sprang forth. I grew up in a Baptist church and I am familiar with the idea of the Christian God. When Christianity could no longer answer the questions I had about life, and the purpose of it, I rejected my upbringing as a good hypothesis and went searching for something more. I’ve explored many different religions, but only as much as someone tries a piece of that strange looking item on the buffet before deciding it’s not for them. Perhaps if I were to really dive into other religions and understand the root of what they are trying to convey they would support the next paragraph.
Given that I rejected the idea of a God/gods that have control or sway over my existence and the existence of all that we know, it was hard for me to process this idea that came to me one morning after dropping my kids at school. Maybe the big bang was not the sudden explosion of a singularity, but instead the explosion of thought. The firing of a cosmic neuron, which sparked off the thought pathways in the cosmic consciousness. This firing of the cosmic neuron is the basis of all that we know and love and all that we have yet to uncover. This of course also supports the multiverse theory, because when we are trying to puzzle out a solution to a question, we think about it in many ways. We alter small aspects of the equation to determine if one path works better than another. So true must the cosmic consciousness.
The idea of the universe being created by the thought of a much larger consciousness does not necessarily need to fit into the bucket of what Humans have labeled as a god. The spawning of universal consciousness with a thought created the foundation for all that we know to exist, but it does not mean that the cosmic consciousness is controlling all aspects of the thought pathway which was created and continues to morph and produce new avenues for thought. Something can be larger than us and yet still not seek to rule over us.
Given this new way of looking at the formation of the universe and the idea that it was created with thought. This means that thought is the basic building block of life, all other matter comes from thought. Thought has allowed Humanity to travel great distances, solve complex problems, scale the highest mountains, and thought will carry us into the future.
Perhaps with each thought we make, we spawn a universe into existence and continue the creation of life with thought.
