Dumping Sugar down the Shitter.

The story so far...

Ok, to the best of our knowledge the center of our galaxy is a largish black hole which is slowly (or rapidly depending on your proximity to it, your speed in relation to it, or your perception of time) eating everything around it. 

Everything (at least in the context of this situation) is stars, dust, comets, solar systems, rogue planets, and even light...  Ultimately us, or at least this speck of galactic dust we inhabit.

There are theories that state that every galaxy we've ever observed is/has been nothing more than space debris that has been caught in the gravitational tide of a large black hole.

In addition, there are some theories which state that smaller 'rogue' black holes may be drifting through space, invisible to us (they suck in light too, remember, and radio waves)

Ok, so lets assume for a moment that this process has been going on for a few billion years, and is accelerating as gravitational power is consolidated (it stands to reason that the more matter a black hole absorbs, the greater it's gravitational influence, and the more it can absorb).

Now high school physics teaches us that every speck of matter in the universe exerts a gravitational pull on every other speck of matter.  Distance is irrelevant (given sufficient time).

Now leaving off for the moment that observational data seems to indicate that the universe is expanding (perspective is tricky without a stationary reference), this seems to indicate that eventually all matter will consolidate itself into a few massive singularities, which will eventually gravitate toward each other...

This means that the entire universe will eventually (theoretically) occupy the same space at the same time.

A space where time no longer really exists (at least according to certain theories concerning relativity of time in relation to speed and mass).

Ok. 

So the whole of creation is compressed into a giant static (there can be no motion if there is nothing to use as a reference and no space left to travel through) bubble of super condensed mass...

Now if you've ever used a diesel engine, or cut metal with a pair of hydraulic shears, or done anything that involved compressing something rapidly (or with great pressure) then you know that that amount of matter forced into itself would have to be insanely infinitely hot.

Hot enough that it would certainly release huge amounts of energy (say possibly in the form of a gigantic explosion that would spew random matter as far as possible into the non-space void that will exist when all matter is consolidated into the same point).

So let's, for the sake of argument, call this a big bang.

Not THE big bang, but A big bang.

Because if this is a logical progression, then it stands to reason this has all happened before (at least the big parts).  The minutiae of our individual lives may not have happened, or maybe it has happened exactly as it is happening now, at least once before that is.  A model like this allows for an infinite number of universes creating themselves, collapsing, and being re-created...  And in such a model all outcomes (including exact duplicates of previous existances) would be theoretically possible.

Ok.  So if the universe has happened before, will happen again, is constantly forming and destroying itself...

Where the fuck did it come from?

I'm not asking this as part of some religious implication.

That answer brings nothing nothing to the table, it just adds another possible layer to the question.  If you answer 'it all came from God' then I have to ask 'where did he/she/it come from?'

This is the ultimate question.

Now somehow I have to find a way to make the answer equal forty two...






Circling,
pacing,
ever hungry,
eternal combatants sizing each other up.

Feeding,
fortifying,
feeding again.

All matter, energy, time and thought.

All Hail the Singularity!

Pinprick of the universe.