Who or What Blew Up the Universe?

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Subject: Who or What Blew Up the Universe?
Date: June 16, 2025
From: Mikail Eliyah

The question of who or what blew up the universe invites us to reconsider the foundations of cosmology — not in terms of myth or theology, but in the language of geometry, projection, and dimensional perspective.

The Misleading Question of “Age”

It is commonly asked: How old is the universe?

But this question may be intrinsically flawed. To ask when the universe began is to presume the universe had a beginning. That presumption assumes the entirety of space and time sprang from a single event — what we call the Big Bang. But what if the universe, in a deeper sense, was always there?

What had a beginning was not “the universe” itself, but a state of inflation — a period of rapid expansion within some pre-existing or higher-dimensional structure. Like a balloon that’s always existed, its surface can expand and change, but the balloon “is.” Inflation, then, is an event with an age. The universe? Possibly not.

Surface Creatures and Dimensional Constraints

Life, as we know it, experiences reality as creatures bound to a 2D surface, projected from a 3D (or higher-dimensional) manifold. Much like ants walking on the skin of a balloon, we are trapped on the observable “surface” of spacetime…