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Table of Contents

Preface

1. Scientific Theories and Laws

2. The First Decade (1936-1946)

3. Relativity

4. The Second Decade (1946-1956)

5. Quantum Mechanics

6. The Third Decade (1956-1966)

7. The Big Bang

8. The Fourth Decade (1966-1976)

9. The Non-Bang

10. The Fifth Decade (1976-1986)

11. The Never-Bang

12. The Sixth Decade (1986-1996)

13. Evolution

14. The Seventh Decade (1996-2006)

15. The Theory of More than Everything

16. The Eighth Decade (2006-2016)

17. Now What?

18. The Ninth Decade (2016-2026)

Appendix A Paintings

Appendix B Caps and Bunnies

Appendix C Musical Compositions

Appendix E A Googolplex Universe

Appendix F Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Appendix E

A googolplex Universe

What’s a googol?

It’s a (1) followed by 100 zeroes or 10^100.

What’s a googolplex?

It’s a (1) followed by a googol number of zeroes or 10^googol.

So a googolplex Universe is googolplex years old and googolplex light years wide. What we’re trying to say is the universe is much bigger and older than we thought. The trouble with the big bang theory is it limits the size of the universe to something we can imagine. But now in a few days with the new Web telescope, (this is quite a unique personal coincidence for me): to create a new universe concept followed days later with a tool that can prove or disprove the concept with a test in the near future. Think of the advantage of a universe in the googolplex range. If a big bang happened today, it could fit right in without disturbing much of our googolplex universe.

Due to the current prejudice for a big bang, I'm afraid they will deploy the Web telescope incorrectly. They'll try to point it towards the center which they wont find. Instead, they should try to point it in an arc looking for the edge of the universe where the galaxies start thinning out to get some measure of the size of a googolplex.

So what do we see as we stand outside some quiet evening?

An expanding universe meeting an unseemly death or an immortal universe that keeps replenishing itself.