The Universe According to Dowbrigade

Space and time go on forever, and the so-called big
bang said to have started the universe is actually part of a repeating
cycle, according to a new paper that challenges conventional wisdom in
physics.

Infinite space and time would contradict the generally accepted idea of
a universe expanding abruptly out of nothing 14 billion years ago, said
Neil Turok, professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cambridge
in England. Turok wrote the paper in the journal Science with Paul Steinhardt
of Princeton University.

Turok and Steinhardt calculated that space and time
could continue forever. Two infinite three-dimensional spaces touch one
another every trillion years or so, sparking great explosions of radiation
and creating new matter, a process we detect as the big bang, they reported.

from the Boston
Globe

And one of those infinite three dimensional spaces
is composed entirely of anti-matter, and if anti-matter comes into
contact
with regular matter the result is the ultimate nuclear reaction; complete
and instantaneous conversion of mass to energy.

As any astute 12-year-old reader of fine comic art
knows, the regular universe and the anti-matter universe expand for
a few hundred
billion years, and then contract, back down to the singularity; the entire
mass of billions of galaxies, stars and planets compressed to the size
of the period at the end of this sentence.

And then, in the true motor of our existence, the
two singularities, ours and the anti-ours, switch positions, or valences,
and the anti becomes the regular, and visa versa. In that passing of
one
to the other, for an infinitesimal instant, they come into contact, one
with the other, and all hell breaks loose, providing the impetus for
the outrush of matter and energy erroneously interpreted
as the universe expanding abruptly out of nothing. The energy created
by the transpassing of the two universes runs the whole system to the
point of maximum expansion, and the cycle repeats, endlessly.

Of course, our half of the system seems normal to us,
and the other half anti, but we know that somewhere out there there is
an anti-Dowbrigade pecking out an anti-posting on his anti-matter keyboard.
To him, we are the anti-Dowbrigade.

As to the ridiculous idea that the universe expanded
abruptly out of nothing 14 billion years ago, well, even a dummy like the
Dowbrigade knows you can’t get something from nothing…