What if gravity — the force we know so well — isn’t just about pulling things down? What if it can also push, shape, and even expand the fabric of the universe?
Physicist Brian Greene once said something remarkable:
“Einstein’s math shows that if you don’t have a rocky object that’s isolated in space, but rather energy that is uniformly spread through a region of space, that kind of entity yields repulsive gravity.”
Let that sink in.
Gravity isn’t always an attractive force. Under certain cosmic conditions — like those just after the Big Bang — gravity pushes outward. It creates expansion. It fuels the very growth of space itself.
Rethinking the Big Bang
We often imagine the Big Bang as an explosion, as if a firecracker went off in the middle of empty space. But modern physics tells us something very different:
It wasn’t an explosion in space — it was an expansion of space.
It happened everywhere. All at once.
Picture a still, quiet lake. Now imagine raindrops falling, not just one — but thousands, all over the surface. Ripples move outward from every direction. That’s more like how the early universe expanded. And each ripple? That’s a region of space growing, stretching, and forming galaxies — stars — and eventually, us.
We’re not standing apart from those ripples.
We are part of the wave.
Looking for the Root, While Carrying the Seed
Humans are always searching for the beginning. We want to know where it all started. What came first? The universe? Time? The laws of physics?
It’s like asking: What came first, the chicken or the egg?
But maybe we’re asking the wrong question.
It’s like a fruit, lying beneath a tree, trying to find its root.
What the fruit doesn’t realize is that the seed is inside it. The answer isn’t just behind — it’s within.
The same is true for us. We are the product of billions of years of cosmic and biological evolution. But we are also the continuation of that story. The universe isn’t just something that happened — it’s something that is still happening, through us.
We Are the Universe Becoming Aware
Everything we are — our thoughts, our questions, our curiosity — they’re not separate from the universe. They are the universe, looking inward.
We’re not just made from stars.
We’re made of stars.
And now, those stars are asking questions.
What we call consciousness could be the universe’s next ripple — not of space, but of awareness. We are not just a result of cosmic evolution. We are the living edge of it. A ripple that is still moving. Still becoming.
Final Thought
So instead of asking where it all started, maybe we should start asking:
What are we becoming?
Because the origin may never be fully visible.
But the future? That’s something we are helping to shape — right now.
We are not just watching the wave.
We are the wave.
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