Frederich Nietzsche's Eternal Return, Supported by Modern Phycisists and Ancient Mayans

Last post I gave the idea that god is possibly timeless, in that he existed before time began and will exist if time ever ended.  But what if time itself has no beginning nor end.  What if over the course of 10x100^99999 years all things repeat exactly the way they did the cycle before.

Well, its possible.  Renowned physicists like Steven Hawking believe its possible.  Go on the premise that matter is finite and time is infinite.  Lets assume that motion, not a hard assumption, governs all aspects of the universe.  And that all of the universe is always in motion.  If you take all these premises to be true, you find that the theory of ETERNAL RETURN is possible, maybe even very possible.

Continuing on those premises, here is the rationale.  Pretend the universe is a balloon - a vacuum with the exception - of 1 billion free floating atoms (like a gas).  Those atoms bounce around and reconfigure constantly.  Because of the number of atoms, the fashion they are moving, and the large amount of space in which these atoms have to bounce about you could imagine that 1 billion atoms will never be in the same exact configuration they were at any other instance of time.  But in this universe, as in the premise, time is endless.  With a set amount of atoms and an unlimited amount of time, even if it took eons upon eons upon eons of time, there will be a moment where the atoms are in the exact same spot, with the exact same velocity (remember velocity includes direction) and the universe effectively restarts.  Every cycle from then on, would be a replay of everything that happened the cycle before.

I am not going to ask any cheesy questions like... if its true, how will you lead your life?  Because the answer is obvious... it would have to be 'no different'.

Nietzsche is not the father of cyclical time.  The Mayan's believed the world worked in repetitive cycles as well.  They also said that there were four stages including growth and pain/destruction.

"What if some demon were to say to you that this life as you know as you have lived it in the past, you would have to live it once more, enumerable times, there would be nothing new, every pain and every join you would live over and over... for infinity... consider the possibility that every action you choose... you choose for all time." - Frederich Nietzsche (The Gay Science)



Next time: We'll discover if I wrote about objective/subjective morality or maybe I wrote about the absurdities found in Intellectual Property.