Haley Conroy - 1/31/23 - Analyzing a Myth (Chosen Blog Topic)

 A specific myth I chose to explore to fully determine its ecological implications and how it orients is the Big Bang Theory. I am not actually referring to the great television show in this analysis, but rather the concept or myth surrounding the theme. The Big Bang Theory is a theory that a big bang is what sparked the beginning of the universe's time. This myth suggests that the universe was created from a single point in the universe, but many researchers from the Nature Scientific Journal believe that, “there does not seem to have been enough time since the birth of the cosmos for it to have reached temperature equilibrium.” Most cosmologists insist that this myth simply makes no sense. An additional research finding to support this theory is from a few astrophysicists from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. These researchers worked to release their findings behind the big bang theory. They honed in to a previous theory that “posited that the universe is a three-dimensional “membrane” floating through a four-dimensional bulk universe” (Veneziano, G. 2006). A bulk universe is a complicated concept to fully grasp, but categorically speaking it refers to an idea that space is a plane of infinite dimensions through which other planes of infinite dimensions float. Summarizing their findings this means that a star floating through a multidimensional plane got sucked into a black hole, and half of it got swallowed up and the other half that survived contributed to the creation of the universe. The overarching fact that our universe is expanding constantly in all directions could be a sign of a cosmic expansion, rather than the evolution of the entirety of the universe in itself. So truly to circle back, it can be concluded that the big bang theory does not entirely answer the question of how the expansion of the universe occurred. A concept that could be relevant in this particular case is consciousness as it refers to the extent of which a person is aware that an interaction with the universe is occurring. Certainly researchers who are being intentional with their research and findings on this particular myth are being mediated through a particular ecosystem. While some of the basic principles of the big bang theory have been established, I believe it requires a much improved understanding of the universe and the related dynamics. This includes the need to characterize individual universe interactions through their life course, to determine in a comparable fashion how much more diverse geographical, cultural and socio-economic contexts that have been explored to date, and to quantify how the relative contributions of societies myths in shaping their interactions. This blog post evaluated the ecological connections of the big bang theory in relation to how myths establish a particular reality while coinciding a humans orient. 


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