u/Slight_Technology710

Genuine question. My intuition says:

Spacetime is static and eternal, that it has always existed, it doesn't expand. Matter has always existed.

The Big Bang was just the most recent "bounce", and all matter collapsed under gravity into an extremely dense point, pressure became so extreme that all structure broke down to fundamental particles, and exploded outward again. Full reset every cycle.

In this model, redshift is just Doppler, matter moving through static space, not space itself expanding. There is no speed of light barrier for matter, c is simply the propagation speed of electromagnetic waves through their medium, like sound through air. Time dilation is a mechanical effect of gravity and motion on physical processes, not time itself changing.

You wouldn't need dark energy, the accelerating expansion is just residual pressure from the bounce, still driving matter outward.

It requires hardly any new assumptions. No creation from nothing, no singularity that magically appears, no invisible forces invented to fix the math. Just gravity and matter doing what they do, forever.

Why is "everything came from nothing 13.8 billion years ago" considered more scientifically rigorous than "it has always existed in cycles"? Both fit the observations. One requires a miracle.

Genuine question. My intuition says:

Spacetime is static and eternal, that it has always existed, it doesn't expand. Matter has always existed.

The Big Bang was just the most recent "bounce", and all matter collapsed under gravity into an extremely dense point, pressure became so extreme that all structure broke down to fundamental particles, and exploded outward again. Full reset every cycle.

In this model, redshift is just Doppler, matter moving through static space, not space itself expanding. There is no speed of light barrier for matter, c is simply the propagation speed of electromagnetic waves through their medium, like sound through air. Time dilation is a mechanical effect of gravity and motion on physical processes, not time itself changing.

You wouldn't need dark energy, the accelerating expansion is just residual pressure from the bounce, still driving matter outward.

It requires hardly any new assumptions. No creation from nothing, no singularity that magically appears, no invisible forces invented to fix the math. Just gravity and matter doing what they do, forever.

Why is "everything came from nothing 13.8 billion years ago" considered more scientifically rigorous than "it has always existed in cycles"? Both fit the observations. One requires a miracle.

Hi, I'm a 19M from Europe, lately been thinking that I only got one life, and that I'd like to make an impact in some way. I'd really like to talk to other people, who in some way feel the same.

Feel free to contact me in that case. :)

Hello! I'm a 19M from Europe, and I've lately been thinking a bit about potentially one day trying to start an intentional community of a bigger scale, more like a small city. It's really more of a dream than reality, but thought I should write a post here about my idea, to find some people to discuss potential weaknesses, improvements and someone who can add to it to discuss with.

My core idea is to build a (more or less) self-sustaining underground community, for around 20k people (number is highly changable). Finance is not something that's on my mind at this stage, this is just pure speculations about the final goal, there will obviously be a lot of steps during many many years to achieve it.

Anyways, the core idea of the community is something more rational, science, with the long term perspective as the core concept. Inside the building we'd redefine social norms and laws, for example no internal community, and everyone contributes and receives equally.

Research is the central purpose, with a goal to understand the world, build something great and big, and explore the world. Therefore science within astronomy, energy, technology etc.

Other social norms changes that I've been thinking about, and largely what I want to get others input on, is stuff like collective childbearing, redefinition of clothing and nudity, no romantic relationships in the normal sense (marriage etc), decision making and much more.

But as I said, this is just some thoughts I've been having, nothing serious that I've actually decided to start yet, and I'm mostly here to discuss with people and get feedback on it to see what's reasonable, and what should change and how. I'm aware a lot mig be controversial, but I just want to discuss it with someone! :)

Hi, I'm a 19M from Europe, lately been thinking that I only got one life, and that I'd like to make an impact in some way. I'd really like to talk to other people, who in some way feel the same.

Feel free to contact me in that case. :)

Hi, I'm a 19M from Europe, lately been thinking that I only got one life, and that I'd like to make an impact in some way. I'd really like to talk to other people, who in some way feel the same people.

Feel free to contact me in that case. :)

Hi, I'm a 19M from Europe, lately been thinking that I only got one life, and that I'd like to make an impact in some way. I'd really like to talk to other people, who in some way feel the same people.

Feel free to contact me in that case. :)