Creating a Universe

Think I can't do it? Wanna dare me?

Stephen Hawking wrote, "If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, the universe would have re-collapsed before it ever reached its present state." Slightly faster than the critical rate and matter would have dispersed too rapidly to allow stars and galaxies to form. George Smoot describes the creation event as "finely orchestrated".

Carl Sagan admits: "It is easy to see that only a very restricted range of laws of nature are consistent with galaxies and stars, planets, life and intelligence."

Hawking cites that critical ratio between the masses of the proton and electron as one of the many fundamental numbers in nature. He adds: "The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."
The calculations of Hawking’s associate, Roger Penrose, show that the highly ordered (low entropy) initial state of the universe is not something that could have occurred by even the wildest chance.

When Fred Hoyle calculated the probability that carbon would have precisely the required resonance by chance, he said that his atheism was greatly shaken, adding: "A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics."

Princeton Physicist Freeman Dyson writes, "The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming." NASA astronomer John O’Keefe says, "It is my view that these circumstances indicate that the universe was created for man to live in."

Here's an npr article talking about becoming God.

I'm not sure we should (create a universe), if making a hell is a possibility. In fact, nothingness is better than existence with any eternal suffering. Suffering should be transitory, transient, fleeting, if at all. In the context of eternity, this could mean a zillion years of suffering. If it were experienced as a moment, then maybe. Otherwise, hell no, as they say. Perhaps universes should be destroyed?

Here's a bbc article talking about "time after time", as I say, or bubbling off..

When we're talking about "new" universes, do we even need to say prior universes -as they might still exist. I'm curious...can one universe overlap on another (like occupy the same "space"). Cuz you can have bubbles inside other bubbles, just like dreams w/in dreams.

Speaking of time order, maybe time actually flows in reverse. There are some who can think that way. And we have expressions like "in his memory" for someone who is already dead. This seems to imply that our lives ARE our afterlives, so we should make our lives the heaven that they should be/are.

And, if the universe had a beginning, (from some other beginning's end? or having bubbled off, whether intentionally or in the course of nature -although humans are a part of nature- from some other existing universe), and is destined for an end, the "beginning" and "end" could be switched, and all the stuff in the middle just the ticking of the clockwork (and therefore doesn't matter?). Why do we substitute the word "matter" for "having importance."

Some thoughts: Can a prior universe be from the future. Is it possible to create another universe in which time flows the other direction, in which someone from that universe's future creates ours, creating a loop?

Bubbles. She's a powerpuff girl (with Blossom and Buttercup). I also think of them like lives, being born, existing, then popping into oblivion, changing form. Everything has a life. Tires have lives. Elements have half-lives. There are live wires, and killing the lights. Humans are just matter, with a built in long-evolved program to feel pain, consciousness, and pleasure, related to reproducing. Is there any difference in the senses of any of these expressions? Does water really have consciousness, like in the What the Bleep movie? Does the entire universe, then? I want answers. Is that because my parents had sex in a December?