This Post Will BLOW Your Mind.
The subject is TIME and SPACE.
First lets talk or real time and of a very long time ago (relativity), the beginning of the universe.
Hawking's said the universe began as the big band (more correctly the big bounce), 15 billon years ago, and will end with the big collapse maybe in another 25 or o billion years.
This puts the universe on a bounce cycle of approx. 40 billion years. The bang is the explosion, from that the universe first accelerates and then goes through and inflation phase (which we are currently in) at some point the farthest galaxies stop receding and then begin to fall back on each other called deflation.
The deflation accelerates and all matter (at least for our universe) collapses into a primal black hole. or what I call a super-duper massive black hole which is at the center of a a six sided universal display. We don't live in a pararell universe, but a multi-universe.
Our universe is one of six sides with five other unknown universes. Image that our universe is the flat side of a single die...with a snake eye (#1) which 'appears' to be flat. A super-duper massive black hole lies at the center of the die.
Since the big bang (bounce) the die has become larger, but as I said at some point (5 billion or so years from now) the die will stop growing and then contract back to an infinitely small size...the point of singularity resulting in another big bang (bounce).
Now if that doesn't mess your mind up this will. There have been 1,000,000,000,000...keep adding zeros until the cows come home) bing bangs or more correctly BIG BOUNCES. This of course deals in 'imaginary time' since time starts and ends with each bounce. So how old is the cosmos? Well its 1,000,000,000,000...keep adding zeros till the cows come home, years old.
Now if that is not enough to mess you up this surely will...there are 1,000,000,000,000...keep adding zeros till the cows come home, die (universes) in the total cosmos!
Take a grain of sand, isolate an atom, and the atom is our universe in relative size.
Feeling a bit insignificant? Well you should !!!
...post dedicated to Stephen Hawkings -- RIP.
Tomorrow I'll post on market timing.
