The Big Bang- The Cosmic Equivalent of Flatulence?

I'll give you three possibilities out of a million about the current state/nature of the universe, and you are requested to select the most plausible one based on reason.

1. The universe is a simulation being run by extremely intelligent extraterrestrial beings

2. The universe is a mere memory in the consciousness of a superior entity

3. The universe is a supermassive living organism which lives mutually with the infinitesimal organisms within it, like you and me

What would you choose? Well, since we comprehend less than 4% of the entire universe, we do not have enough evidence to prove any of these possibilities wrong. Therefore, they may all be equally plausible, right? Perhaps, the idea of the universe being different from its superficial state may seem preposterous, or even petrifying.

"The Big Bang Theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged"- Alan Guth. But it may help us understand one possibility about the origin of the universe, which seems quite convincing to many scientists, given the evidence such as the expansion of the universe. Once we understand that, we can predict the fate of the universe and even find the aliens that have captured us in the Matrix.

The video above gives a detailed explanation about the widely accepted theory on the genesis of the universe as we know it—The Big Bang Theory.

"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 recollapsed before it even reached its present state"- Stephen Hawking.

A Belgian Priest, Georges Lemaître, first proposed the idea of the big bang theory in the 1920s suggesting that the universe began from a single primordial atom. The idea received major boosts from Edwin Hubble's observations about the expanding universe and galaxies drifting apart in all directions, as well as from the 1960s discovery of cosmic microwave radiation (construed as reverberations of the big bang) by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson.

Currently, the theory is based on the idea that the universe was very compact and dense, less than a million billion billionth size of an atom, in the first 10^-43 seconds of its existence (after the so-called Big Bang). It is also believed that the fundamental forces—gravitational , strong, weak and electromagnetic forces—were moulded into a single force when the universe was in an incomprehensibly dense and energetic state. However, there are no theories as to how such a unified force would work. In order to understand this theory better, we need to know how gravitational force works on the subatomic scale, once we are pulled from intellectual oblivion. It is also thought that the extremely concentrated state of the universe allowed the very first particles (like quarks and leptons) to amalgamate and settle into roughly the same temperature. Thereafter, in a unimaginably small fraction of a second, the constant matter and energy expanded outward uniformly, with tiny fluctuations at the quantum level. This model of 'breakneck' expansion, called inflation, may elucidate why the universe has such an even temperature and distribution of matter. After inflation, the universe continued to expand but at a much slower rate, and it is still unclear what exactly powered inflation.

The above image shows the expansion of the universe in terms of the changing mean distance between galaxies over time. The Hubble constant determines the expansion of the universe which proceeds in all directions. The Hubble constant has changed in the past and can change in the future, depending on the value of the density parameters (Ω) as shown above. There are many competing theories about the origin of the universe such as the 'Incredible Bulk' and 'Time's arrow'. But whatever the theory may be, one question still persists: Are we alone in the universe?

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. "The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to be completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life"- Stephen Hawking. Honestly, if the government (I won't specify the country) is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

References:

-Dunbar, Brian. “The Story of Our Universe.”NASA, NASA, 6 June 2013, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/planck/multimedia/pia16876b.html.

-Origins of the Universe 101 | National Geographic - YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPzOWlLrbE.

-“What Does It Mean When They Say the Universe Is Expanding?”The Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/what-does-it-mean-when-they-say-the-universe-is-expanding/.

-Greshko, Michael. “The Origins of the Universe, Explained.”The Origins of the Universe Facts and Information, 28 Mar. 2019, www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/universe/origins-of-the-universe/.