The Universe in a Bowl

Have you ever poured some pepper into your soup? The pepper doesn’t think instantly; in fact, it floats at the surface and quickly spreads out over the face of the soup.

It started when my brother poured a bit of pepper into his soup at dinner. We watched the pepper slowly spread over the surface of the soup, and a simple and innocent question arose: “why?”

My father hypothesized that it had something to do with pepper breaking the water tension, while I argued that it was the basic law of all things wanting to reach equilibrium. My mother said that the movement of pepper was related to the temperature of the soup; I disagreed. My brother said nothing and just stared at his soup.

We decided to test out my mom’s theory, mainly because it didn’t need much equipment. My brother got a bowl of cold water (we didn’t think about limiting the factors then), and we poured some pepper into it. The pepper spread over the surface faster than it did in the soup. Just then, a random thought hit me.

The universe is sort of like an endless and bottomless bowl of water with a bit of pepper poured onto it. Think of pepper as matter; when the big bang (the pepper being poured) happened, a concentrated mass of matter (the pepper) suddenly appeared. The matter quickly spread out over the space (the soup). They eventually stop moving due to the pull of gravity, and slowly, but surely, start to clump together.

Here’s where it gets interesting. The pepper started to clump together, until some clumps grew so heavy, they dropped to the bottom of the bowl. The universe equivalent to that, I guess, would be black holes: matter so dense that they drop through space-time altogether.

My interesting observation of the future of the universe was ruined, however, when my mom came over and took our bowl of water and complained that my brother and I were being too loud discussing the universe. She was watching TV, you see. Annoyed, my brother and I concluded our discussion with a single question:

“Why do we spend our time doing pointless things when we could be pondering over the history and future of our universe?”

Fweee?

And so, on November 3rd, CL's Blob is created. Whoot. 

Now, for some FAQs and whatnot: 

Q: What is this thing for? 

A: It's a blog. 

Q: So, what's this blog for?

A: So I can post stuff in it? What else is a blog for? 

Q: What are you going to post in it?

A: I dunno. Probably some random rants, experiments, and rants. Mostly rants. 

Ok, to be serious, I'll probably be posting lots of stuff at first, then this thing will get gradually abandoned until I forget all about it. Then, one day, I'll stumble upon it by accident or something, and I'll read this and think "wow, whoever wrote this is an idiot." Then I'll close the window and never look at it again. Whoot. 

Now, shall we begin the rants?