The Universe We Find Ourselves In:

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About the Author

Bobby Ibrahim

I remember staring out of the car window as the sun faded into night, and streetlights turned into soft glows in the dark. We were returning home after a family trip. While my father drove and my mother gave directions, my older sister sat next to me and was beginning to fall asleep. I remember feeling sad and a little hollow. Whenever we went on trips together, we would enjoy them, but they would always eventually end just as everything does. Everything ends. We end, I thought as I sat in the darkness of the backseat, illuminated only by the faint glow of the car radio. We are born, we eventually die, and this cycle has been going on since whenever it began. The night sky was now beginning to reveal its stars. I remember wondering in that quiet moment: why are we here? Why are we part of this process, and why does the universe even exist? I was troubled by these thoughts. The universe continues to expand while we remain confined to our little sphere here on Earth, trying to figure out our place in this world and how we all fit into it.

Time marched on. As a man, I would often look into the night sky during evening walks with my dog and wonder about the expansion of the universe. When did it begin? Why did it start, and how do we get to the underpinnings of reality? To understand the past, we must first understand our present world and work backwards from there. What came before today? What came before yesterday, and what came before that? If we keep going backwards until we go back to the start, from where we can infer the early universe being unimaginably hot, with all the energy and matter we see today packed tightly together before expansion began, our description of cosmic history eventually reaches a point where known physics can no longer reliably describe earlier times. We reach a barrier that forces us to then ask: where did our universe come from, and what exactly triggered the Big Bang to begin? This remains our biggest puzzle.

I never stopped thinking about these questions, and so I decided to investigate them through the lens of philosophy: to examine the foundations of cosmology and write the kind of book I have been waiting to read.

Bobby.

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