The shape of the universe

Urban Malgudi
3 min readJun 15, 2020

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Just a few centuries ago, flat-Earthers were trending. Not today though, today their website was under maintenance. For a little glitch in time, around 8am today, people who wanted to believe that the earth was flat, had no place to bond.

tfes.org schedules maintenance from 8am to 10am UTC

The shape of the universe is also up for debate and of course, flat-universers are already trending. As always, today, I am not an expert on dark matter, quarks, quantum theory, or theory of relativity for that matter, that suggests the universe has four dimensions including time. But when no one is an expert, everyone is… So I say that the universe is a sphere.

The center of which lies a giant black hole, which like a giant garburator sucks in everything including light (that is what black holes do!) and like mercury coalesces with other black holes to from an even a bigger black hole, garburating everything including itself, space and the fourth dimension, time. This giant-black-hole-garburator happens to be at the center of the sphere, eating up space and time uniformly across the volume, like a worm with some OCD-would devour a fruit inside out.

The good news is, this OCD-worm, or this Giant Black Hole can never finish eating the whole universe because as we all know, the universe continues to expand in all directions. All the heating and farting we do has some energy lost to the universe, not all the calorific value is perfectly converted to heat, not all light is used up for lighting, nor all sound energy makes music. We all have read and heard that some energy is lost to the universe (if you took a physics class that is.) Whether it is the coefficient of (air) friction or no system being a perfect system, the universe takes it’s energy tax. An this energy, whether regular or dark types, (and the matter sum), which for some reason can't be created or destroyed just keeps changing forms until it reaches the periphery where it expands the borders of the universe. Symmetrically, of course.

The rate at which The Giant Black Hole destroys the dimensions at the center is the same rate at which the surface expands (or the dimensions) are created at the periphery. So if you ask your imaginary God for a an immortal lifetime and they grant you the wish just because you were the chosen one you can’t really hitchhike the galaxy. If you go too close to the center, the immortal you will find out what lies at the epicenter of Giant Black Hole (or any black hole for that matter). If you travel in the opposite direction if that seems to be a risky endeavor even for the risk-averse but immortal you, then you will never get to the edge because it is always expanding and it expands at the speed of light, or greater, if I daresay. So yeah, you will just be going in loops until you realize that your boon of immortality was actually a curse. The imaginary god wasn’t imaginary after all and he played a grand practical joke on you. So think about that when you wish that you were forever 21.

So just to make this elegant, in summary, the bubbykin’s Theory of The Shape Of the Universe suggests that “The universe is a giant sphere, which, like a beating heart, contracts and expands at the same time, without changing its total four-dimensional volume or the total sum of mass and energy by expanding at the surface at the same rate at which it shrinks at the center.” You read it here first! So don’t trust the Flatearthers or the Flatuniversers or the atheists or the theists. Think for yourself. In a nature that loves balance and symmetry, what other choice do we have but a sphere and that sphere is but a mere atom of a molecule, in another giant universe…

Rate of expansion equal to the Rate of contraction

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Urban Malgudi
Urban Malgudi

Written by Urban Malgudi

(Predominantly) carbon-based bipedal Sapien, one of the 8 billion specimens of Planet Earth. | Tweets as @tweetforthot | Tries to click nohumanpics on Instagram

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