1. Scientific Theories and Laws
2. The First Decade (1936-1946)
4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)
6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)
8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)
10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)
12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)
14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)
15. The Theory of More than Everything
16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)
18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)
Appendix A Paintings
Appendix B TTOMTE and a Steady State Universe
Appendix C Musical Compositions
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However, he didn't see why there couldn't be two kinds, so he said there can be either positive or negative electrical energy. Many doubted him for a long time until they finally discovered the positron, the particle with the same size as the electron but with an opposite charge.
Science makes big leaps when we finally recognize an assumption; that's the hard part. Einstein had his Relativity breakthrough when he realized we assumed time always went the same speed, and light did not. We settle on this simple rule:
We won't get into the whole philosophical meaning of existence itself. Instead, we'll only ask a couple of simple questions about our past and our future: How old is the universe, and how long will it last?
The Big Bang doesn't really answer either one for sure. That theory says our present universe started about fifteen billion years ago, but the universe might have been around before in some other form since a big bang like that wipes out any evidence. We don't have enough information to tell how long it will last either, so where do we go from here?
We will take the existence question and lay out three possibilities for our past and three for our future.
How long has the universe been here? __________________________________
We'll label the answers PP1, PP2, and PP3 meaning past possibilities 1, 2, and 3.
PP1: All matter and energy has been here forever.
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