Written by Alexa Erickson
It’s generally assumed that the universe — all existing matter and space considered as a whole — is at least 10 billion light years in diameter, and contains many, many galaxies. Since its creation in the Big Bang an estimated 13 billion years ago, the universe has been expanding.
As if it weren’t enough to just try to wrap your head around the idea of the universe, why not try to consider that it just keeps growing?
In an article for NPR, Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton professor of natural philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College, says:
From our everyday perspective, when we see something expanding, we immediately also see what it’s expanding into. An inflating balloon grows outwards into the space surrounding it. We can easily picture this because we are seeing things from the outside. We see the balloon and its surface growing as air is pumped into it. This is the privileged observer’s view, one where we have a detached and complete grasp of what’s going on, a view “from the outside.”
Another Perspective
Currently Nassim is focused on his most recent developments in quantum gravity and their applications to technology, new energy research, applied resonance, life sciences, permaculture, and consciousness studies. Nassim currently resides in Kauai compassionately raising his two young sons, and surfing the sunlit swells on the shores of the magnificent Hawaiian islands.
HERE is an example of some of his published research, with co authors, one of whom is Elizabeth A. Rauscher, an American physicist. She is a former researcher with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Stanford Research Institute, and NASA.
“Space is actually not empty and it’s full of energy…The energy in space is not trivial there’s a lot of it and we can actually calculate how much energy there is in that space and that reality might actually come out of it. Everything we see is actually emerging from that space.”
When it comes to the big bang, he commonly uses this diagram to explain that there are more questions. Like, who is behind the big bang?
