I was thinking about my present writing project and somehow I ended up thinking about the universe doing something different this morning.

At this point, it seems like the results of the Big Bang are accelerating outward. This is mind-boggling to people because we are creatures of finite thoughts, so an idea of never-ending space where the entire universe is accelerating from a single focal point, the Big Bang, seems like a lot.

So I started wondering, “What if the initial Big Bang was just one force out there, and as things go further from the center of the Big Bang, other forces pull back toward that center?” The idea is sort of like a car in that if you hit the gas, it accelerates, and if you hit the brakes, it decelerates. There’s a lot of stuff we don’t know, and I was just having fun with an idea for the book.

The whole idea of the universe reverting every few billion years to create a new Big Bang is interesting.

As it happens, the idea of the Big Bounce is not new, and I will not be accepting a Nobel Prize for Physics this year. There’s no need to get a confirmation from Neil de Grasse Tyson, it’s a known theory.

It’s all just as well. I never planned for a Nobel Prize. I have nowhere to put it, so not getting one would just create a new problem for me. But it is fun to think that just by having some coffee and tuning the world out I could come up with an idea way outside of my experience based on only what I have read and gestated on for half a century.

There is still space to dream in the world. You just find yourself in someone else’s campsite fairly often.

Leave snacks out!