of the twenty two thousand habitable planets in the Milky Way Galaxy.
I find it ironic that because we are a part of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are too close to accurately define the exact dimensions of or the exact makeup of the galaxy we reside in. The center of the galaxy is not visible to us (in the visible light spectrum) because of the diffuse nebulae and tight cluster of stars, but in recent years with the use of infrared and x-ray telescopes, cosmologist have been able to see inside the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and have finally acknowledged the existence of a black hole in our galaxy, as was the original thinking and hypothesis of Albert Einstein many years earlier.
Now that you have a somewhat understanding of the size of our own galaxy, consider that the Milky Way is but one of about three hundred forty billion galaxies in the Universe (not the one hundred twenty five billion believed by cosmologist), that our galaxy is traveling at an incredible speed away from the nascency of the Big Bang.
Scientist and cosmologist believe all the matter in the Universe presently, is all the matter that has ever or will ever exist in the Universe, that at some point before the Big Bang, all physical matter that is the Universe now was compressed to the size of a single atom, the Singularity. Wrong again!
All matter that is now the Universe is not all matter that has or will exist in the Universe since its nascency. Scientist believe that new matter cannot be created, if that statement were true, there would be no Universe to begin with, certainly not what it is today!
As the Universe continues to expand, other 'unknown matter' in the bulk is absorbed through the membrane of the Universe and is constantly adding to the total physical mass of the Universe. This matter (matter that is unknown to mankind on this planet) may be of the same origins as that which existed before the nascency of our Universe!
The human soul (psyche) is a curious Being, not only to others around him but to himself as well. One never reveals all of his innermost thoughts and feelings for fear of rejection or retribution against him by his fellow man. Fear, hate, anxiety, prejudice and intolerance are traits or feelings that all humans experience at some point in their life. Does that make you a 'bad person', or are you just the 'norm'? A person can have these trait's to some extent (as all do) and still be a wholesome Being. The difference between a bad, immoral or nefarious Being and a wholesome Being is dictated by his life actions, that is, a wholesome Being displays the following trait's; compassion and empathy for his fellow mankind and caring for the 'nature' of his environment. When I say nature, I am not only referring to the physical aspects of this world (plants, and geological aspects), but also to the beast (animals) we share the planet with.
Cruelty to man or beast is unacceptable!
Time is only a relative state of being, that is to say time only really applies to you as you live your physical life. Does that mean there was no time before your physical birth on this planet? Will there be no time after your physical death? Did anything really exist before your birth, and will there be anything after you are gone? These might seem like silly questions to ask, but does anything really matter (time, physical material or life its self) if you are not in the physical conscious world to experience it? Is this all there is to life, being born, living a short period of time (in the scheme of things) and then dying? There has to be more to life than this. Well, I am here to tell you there is more to life than what meets the eye.
Unless you are completely brain dead (no offense intended to those of lesser intelligence), you have probably asked yourself many (if not all) of the questions first posed in this writing. I may not be able to answer all of these questions to your satisfaction, but I will try to give you some insight as to how things really are in the Universe you live in. For many of you (maybe most) it will take a leap of faith to even comprehend what is to be said, as it may go against everything you believe to be true or have ever learned. Some might even say; 'This guy is a nutcase'. I only ask that you contemplate what is written and be willing to put aside your learned beliefs and prejudices.
We could really confuse all but the very brightest of human minds (including mine) with things like, string theories, space time continuum or one of the many other hypotheses of the many cosmologists of today and yesterday as well. I will only briefly cover some of the most interesting thoughts proposed by the most brilliant thinkers and correct faulty facts as needed.
Some of the subjects covered are: The formation and makeup of our solar system (because it is representative of other habitable solar systems in the Universe); The formation of the Universe; The basic composition of the Universe; How black holes play a crucial role in the formation of galaxies; The proposed demise of the Universe; Time travel; The complexity and simplicity of the whole of the Universe; Entities, including physical and metaphysical (I really find it naive and egotistical for anyone to ask the questions, 'Are we the only ones in the Universe? Are we alone'?); Earth religion and how it has almost sealed the fate of mankind; What is time and when did it start; But most importantly, I will look at mankind's faults as a society, his probable fate on this world and what has to be done to ensure the survival of Mankind on this planet.
As stated, since the main focus of this writing is to inform the inhabitants of this planet, I will primarily focus on our species (Homo-sapiens) on this world and the possible pitfalls that belie us, including the hazards of past and present religious beliefs of this population.
The definitions given in this writing are the commonly excepted definitions in today's world; some of these definitions are not completely accurate as things really are, although there is some part of correctness to all of them. Again, I only ask that you keep an open mind (use it please) and at least contemplate what is written.
At some point in time I would like you to listen to the words in John Lennon's "Imagine" Did he just have great insight or...?
OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
I will begin with a brief description of our own solar system (2) to gain an understanding of its formation and basic composition.
Our solar system consist of a small to moderate sized star and planets that are fairly representative of the vast majority of habitable planets in the Universe. Our solar system is very small on the scale of things, a mere thirty three and a half billion kilometers (the distance can vary by as much as a couple billion kilometers depending on the current activity of the Sun) to the outermost edge of the influence of the Sun's solar winds.
We have only eight planets in our very small solar system, divided into two distinct groups, the terrestrial planets (where habitable planets reside) and the gas giants. The terrestrial planets are the four closest to the Sun; IE Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These planets are so named terrestrial because of their rocky composition and metallic core. Beyond the terrestrial planets is a meteor band lying between Mars and Jupiter consisting primarily of dust, meteors and asteroids, part of the matter that was not incorporated into the inner planets. The outer four planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are gas giants (3) and are commonly referred to as Jovian planets because they consist mainly of large clouds of gasses surrounding a small liquefied gas or in some cases semi-metallic core. Although there are many differences between the Jovian planets, not only in physical size but also in chemical makeup, they are still in the same classification.
Beyond the planets is the outer fringe of our solar system consisting of the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud. Because of the great distance from Earth, these areas have not been fully explored or understood.
Our solar system began as a single star, the Sun (sometimes called Sol), about five point seven billion years ago, it was created in a nebulae on the mid to outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy on one of the spiral arms of the galaxy. The nebulae our Sun originated from was probably the left over gasses and particles of a large star that went supernovae. As the Sun formed amidst the stellar gasses (primarily hydrogen), the increasing mass of the Sun's gravity attracted particles in i
ts vicinity that began to rotate around this newly created gravitational mass in the form of a binary accretion formation (4).
At the beginning (of the binary accretion formation) there were many small clusters consisting of maybe twenty planets (most of these early planets would be called dwarf or minor planets because they were so small in mass) in the inner solar system, with lighter gas clouds revolving outside the inner cluster of matter. As the orbits of these dwarf planets brought them on a collision course with each other, larger planets and moons were created from the resulting collisions and matting of matter, thus creating the terrestrial planets.
The gas clouds on the outer part of the solar system merged into giant gas balls, or as they are called today, gas giants. Matter that was not mated to the terrestrial planets was caught between the gravitational pull of the gas giants and the Sun in what is now the asteroid belt, with even more debris caught outside the orbits of the gas giants in an area now known as the Kuiper Belt.
It is estimated there are over two hundred forty moons in our solar system, but the number is still an evolving fact as new moons are discovered almost yearly by