Personality Theory Carl Sagan Wrote

¶ … Personality Theory

Carl Sagan wrote in the introduction of Stephen Hawking's (1988) book, "A Brief History," he said, "We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world. We give little thought to the machinery that generates the sunlight that makes life possible, to the gravity that glues us to an Earth that would otherwise send us spinning off into space, or to the atoms of which we are made and on whose stability we fundamentally depend. Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spend much time wondering why nature is the way it is; where the cosmos came from, or whether it was always here; if time will one day flow backward and effects precede causes; or whether there are ultimate limits to what humans can know."

According to the standard theory, our universe sprang into existence as "singularity" around 13.7 billion years ago -- singularities are zones which defy our current understanding of physics and are believed to exist at the core of black holes, which are areas of intense gravitational pressure; and the pressure is imagined to be really powerful that finite matter is in fact compressed into infinite density and that these zones of infinite density are called singularities; and our universe is thought to have begun as an infinitesimally small, infinitely hot, infinitely dense, something - a singularity (Barrow, 1994).

After the initial appearance of the singularities -- it seems that it inflated, expanded and cooled, going from very, very small and very, very hot, to the size and temperature of our current universe. There were three British astrophysicists, namely, Steven Hawking, George Ellis, and Roger Penrose turned their attention to the Theory of Relativity and its implications regarding our notions of time and in 1968 and 1970, they published papers that they extended Einstein's Theory of General Relativity to include measurements of time and space -- according to their calculations, time and space had a finite beginning that corresponded to the origin of matter and energy;" and the singularity didn't appear in space; rather, space began inside of the singularity but prior to the singularity, nothing existed, not space, time, matter, or energy - nothing (Hawking & Ellis, 1968). So where and in what did the singularity appear if not in space? We don't know. We don't know where it came from, why it's here, or even where it is. But the truth was that the singularities are origin of human existence -- we came from the dreams of the fallen star that was exiled from the heavens above. When the star did not function well in its job in shining brightly in the sky, it was banished and sent to a space where it exist but cannot shine no more. The singularities continues to expand and cool to this day and we are inside of it: incredible creatures living on a unique planet, circling a beautiful star clustered together with several hundred billion other stars in a galaxy soaring through the cosmos, all of which is inside of an expanding universe that began as an infinitesimal singularity which appeared out of nowhere for reasons unknown and this was known as the Big Bang theory (Barrow, 1994).

The ceased to exist when the star stops to expand and melts -- when it can will itself to shine again and starts looking for ways to become a shining star again -- when it becomes a star, it becomes a nuclear reactor. A nuclear reactor is defined a device in which a nuclear fission chain reaction occurs under controlled conditions so that the heat yield can be harnessed or the neutron beams utilized and all commercial reactors are thermal reactors, using a moderator to slow down the neutrons (Glossary of Uranium Industry Terms, n.d.). The human existence will have no say at the time of our death for we are just particles -- a tiny piece of an atom that can all be destroyed with a nuclear reactor.

The humans evolved through the dreams made by the singularity, each vision it sees creates what we have now. If it stops visualizing the vision, the creation expires.

The humans' fate is not ruled by their freewill -- their existence and choices in life is merely part of the singularity's creations. The singularity or we can all it as the "Powers that be," creates the situation in a predetermined manner -- humans think that they make decisions by reflecting on their actions, on contemplating on how to make a choice; but in reality, everything is like a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' book. In these kinds of book, the reader is usually asked to decide on the leading character's next course of action -- it seems that the reader has the 'power' to choose but really, everything about the story is already determined. In life, humans tend to think that they chose their own adventures but all of their actions already have a corresponding response and result that the singularity already thought of.