Spiritual concepts
Expanding universe
An explanation, based on the current thinking of Lemaitre plus other venerable scientists, for the expanding universe can be found in the section What is Heaven.
Here is an alternative more mystical version.
The Parable of the Golden Carp

There was once a beautiful pond, tended by the Pondkeeper who sat admiring the fishes with which he had stocked it.
The rim was full of fish of all shapes and sizes that he had carefully reared and placed in the pond for his enjoyment.
One day he noticed that one of his favourites, a beautiful blue and gold carp, was sick. He had only recently put some parasites on the carp as an experiment. He had bred the parasites to look after and steward the carp and all the other creatures that lived on the carp, keeping it clean, helping it to feed and digest food.
The Pondkeeper looked carefully and realised the carp was very sick and might even by dying. The Carp was swarming with parasites and a quarter of the original helpers on the carp had gone. Some of its scales were black, it had huge holes in its sides where they had burrowed down and were extracting its flesh. It was bare where before it had had magnificent forests of whiskers.
There was no time to lose. He got out his line and threw it out to the carp. The carp realising it was a life line put the hook in its mouth and waited to be reeled in to the Pondkeeper.
As the carp was reeled in, it cut through the ripples on the water and the carp realised it was going at great speed, as the ripple seemed to come to it faster and faster. As the Pondkeeper realised how close the carp was to death, he reeled in even faster and faster.
The parasites on the carp were amazed as the rim seemed to move away from them and all the other fish started to go further and further away. They decided the pond must be expanding and carried on as before.
And the Pondkeeper got out his lice powder.
Observations
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- Aristotle - Physics - Motion
- Atharvaveda - XIX 53 from Prayer to Kala [Time]
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations - Destiny, the ordered universe and time
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations - Perceptions
- Babbage, Charles - The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
- Beuys, Joseph - SaFG SaUG
- Blake, William - And a roof vast petrific around
- Blake, William - What is above is within
- Blithe spirit - The vast moving sheet
- Carlyle, Thomas - Misc quote - The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To Do
- Descartes, Rene - The contracting universe
- Descartes, Rene - Time, energy and function execution
- Dogon - And Digitaria
- Dr Andrei Linde - The fallacy of the 'big bang'
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - Aggregates and gravity
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - And universal expansion
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - Curved space and the number of atoms
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - The contracting universe
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - The invisible universe
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - The lonely universe
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - Time
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - Time and relativity
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Nature of the Physical World - Illusion
- Einstein, Albert - Curved space time
- Eriugena, Johannes Scotus - Periphyseon – The Unmoving Mover
- Eriugena, Johannes Scotus - Peryphyseon – Energy recycling
- Hinton, Charles - A Picture of Our Universe – Out of time in the Aether level
- Jami - Misc Quote - On Qu’ran L15
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - Curved space
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - Eggs and Bubbles
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - Energy
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - Spirit
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - Spirit and the expanding universe
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - The Loom
- Lemaitre, Georges - Homogenous universe of constant mass and increasing radius - 01
- Lemaitre, Georges - Homogenous universe of constant mass and increasing radius - 02
- Lemaitre, Georges - Homogenous universe of constant mass and increasing radius - 03
- Lemaitre, Georges - The Primeval atom - The expanding universe
- Linde, Andrei - On the expanding universe
- Lycaeum forum - The wood floor seemed to rise and fall like a piano keyboard
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov – Meditations on the Solidity and Liquidity of Bodies – Anticipating the loom
- Miranda's favourite trip from EROWID
- Morrells, Luce and the moving wall
- Nabokov, Vladimir - Speak, Memory - Spirals and Eggs
- North Whitehead, Alfred – 05 Quanta
- Odetta - Mr. Tambourine Man
- Parmenides - On Nature - 08
- Plato - Phaedo - The Expanding universe
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - Our universe is the whole
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Spirit and matter
- Sherrington, Sir Charles - Man and his Nature - The universe is running down
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Hymn of the Universe - The Word
- Uruk – The Stone cone and Limestone temples
- Vaughan, Henry - The World
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - I open my scuttle at night
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - Urge and urge and urge
- Yerka, Jacek and William Ernest Henley - Echoes