A bold new theory on why the universe keeps expanding

Is the universe kept inflated because of selection

I mean, that's a wild speculation. I must say it's wild, but it's worth thinking about

So the universe has been expanding ever since the Big Bang. Now, there's this one theory, that we had this kind of infinitely dense start to the universe

And there's also a theory that, you know, maybe the universe only gets so far

and then gravity will overcome it and it will drag back. But in the last few years, physicists have seen that not only is expansion still happening

but it's getting faster. What is the universe expanding into? Nothing. I think that's probably the wrong way to look at it

Say there is time and time is literally inflating like a balloon

And that's just the universe we are confronted with. It doesn't make any sense to talk about other

times, there is just our time. There might have been time forever, right

The space that we see might be local. I mean, one way of looking at it could be, you have Big Bang, the universe expands

then the universe generates life and there's all this stuff going on. And then at the end of the universe, when all the causation in the universe is finished

space ceases to have any meaning and you're back at the Big Bang again

Physicists would argue that that is not correct, it's kind of imprecise

not you know experimentally testable I do like the idea that novelty generation is somehow causing the universe to expand in some way And I love to think about if I wasn wildly wrong how might we go about testing it

We don't really know what is driving the universe expansion. We don't really know what time is

There is that actual fundamental principle on physics is not time reversible

And so if time is not reversible and time is fundamental, then how does selection through matter through lice expand the universe

I think we have to revisit. And so if all life in the universe stopped, would the universe get smaller

That's a really interesting question. But I think it even more interesting questions to say that, look

time and lice are connected. And of course the universe is alive everywhere

but life is just merely the amount of selection going on per unit volume

And so we shouldn't obsess about life on its own. It's about any selection, right? And the selection is its most primal meaning is what is keeping the universe inflated. And because where there's stuff interacting, you'll always have selection. That's why the universe is expanding. And that could be another way of looking at it. Again, I'm not 100% comfortable saying that, but it's fun. And I'm sure that people will have many interpretations, if not outright, thinking that what I'm saying is nonsensical, which is fine