It is quite freakish. I big... nothing. I have always feared the ocean because of the thought of going overboard in all that depth, with nothing to rest my feet on. But even that seemed petty compared to the prospect of living on a planet or, heaven forbid, an asteroid smack dab in the middle of that giant nothing.
I'd be first to admit I know nothing much about astronomy, although probably not as large a nothing as the nothing at hand. Still, I've been wondering, what if it was actually the center of the universe? Well... that sounded a lot more awkward that it actually is; the point is, what if it was the center, or at least, the area, where the Big Bang occurred? Maybe the explosion/expansion had blown off/pulled away all matter from the center of the "Primordial Explosive Atom" that everyone, meaning the hulky galaxies, the bright and chipper stars and even the dark and brooding blackholes were, in a way, "knocked back"?
I remember watching a TV series that an explosion has two phases. The first one pushed matter away from the center, effectively creating a near-vacuum. In the second phase, the low pressure inside the "shell" of air and shrapnel, along with the relatively higher pressure of the atmosphere outside, pushes all that matter back in, metaphorically creating a vortex that is sustained for only a short while, sucking ejected matter back in.
Now, suppose that the Big Bang was the first phase of an explosion. If the above theory were correct, we should be having a second phase, the collapsing phase. Only, the difference is that there was no atmosphere back then to push everything back in. As a matter of fact, after the explosion, there could very well be vacuum inside but there is an even greater amount of vacuum outside. So, right now, it could very well imply that that hole will continue to grow and that the universe could very well end up expanding into infinity.
Then again, I have to remind myself that the Big Bang event was an expansion, not an explosion. Still, for a while there, it might have been interesting, ne?

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