My theory of Circular Eternalism

Firstly, let me begin by addressing the topic of theory vs. belief. This is a theory, not a belief. However, I regard it as a distinct possibility; one of infinite possibilities in a field where theories cannot be tested or challenged. Now, let me begin. First let us review the Theory of Eternalism, as my own theory is merely a minor adaptation to the original. Eternalism is the belief that time, being a dimension, may exist at any “location” (in time, if you will), and the information for what “is” at any point in time exists as well. In fact, it has always existed (although the term “always” is rooted in the idea of time, so technically that statement was not correct). Time just IS. All past events are “still there” and all future events are “already there”. The nature of how we seem to find ourselves existing at this point in time right now is simply an illusion. In fact, the very property of the “passage of time” is an illusion created by our brain. It is subjective reality, which is an insignificant illusion. Objective reality, or reality existing independent of an observer or a subject, is a strange place. In fact, you can only think about it on a superficial level because it is so obscure, having no parallel with our known reality, that our minds are barely equipped to contemplate it.

Before I continue any further, I would like to address another one of my theories. If the “big bang” theory is true, and the bang did create everything in the universe via a massive explosion evenly distributing all matter radially outward throughout space, then consider the following. All matter in the universe is attracted to each other through the force of gravity. This means that all matter that spread outward from the explosion may eventually slow down and reverse direction, being pulled towards the epicenter of all gravity in the universe—the origin of the bang. If this happens, then all matter will pull together at the epicenter recreating The Singularity once again. At this point, I believe The Singularity will incite another big bang through an implosion, and start the process all over again. What this theory of mine implicates is that the universe “pulses” outward and inward, repeatedly and indefinitely.

If the above theory is true, then I will go further still, and will argue that time is circular just like the pulsing of the universe. The three spatial dimensions are said to be bi-directional, open-ended, and infinite. But what if time isn’t? What if time loops back on itself just like a circle. Like Eternalism implied above, all past events still exist and all future events already exist. However, I now argue: what if this is still true, but that these events are finite? Furthermore, this would mean that past events are future events and vice versa, per the nature of circle. I am arguing that there is a finite amount of time, and that it loops back on itself seamlessly. This is possible because if the debris of the bang reunites into The Singularity, then the universe is oriented exactly the way it was when it started, and therefore the loop can be seamless. That is my theory of Circular Eternalism, or Circular “Block-Universe” Theory as a matter of preference.


Note: One way in which my theory of Circular Eternalism could be wrong is if any of the matter dispelled by the bang reaches escape velocity from the gravitational epicenter, a phenomenon in which it will slow down infinitely, never quite reaching a standstill, for as it travels ever-further from the pull of gravity, the force gets weaker and weaker.