Dear fellow essay contributors:
I can now confidently tell you what the next stage in physics is going to be because I think I have found out how the universe operates. Astronomers and physicists agree that the universe came into being because of a big bang explosion erupting out of a black hole. They debate whether there was ever a state of nothing where both time and place would both be set at zero. Or if there was always a primeval atom that dwelt inside the black hole before it exploded. Everybody agrees that the emanation out of the black hole was extremely hot and ever since its appearance, the universe has become cooler. Because Hubble verified that the far galaxies were fleeing from sight at twice the speed of light, everyone assumed that the universe was expanding.
Hot stuff expands. Cold stuff contracts. The universe is contracting. Stars stay in a fixed position. Because they are growing cooler, all the stars are shrinking. They cannot move laterally. As a star cools and shrinks, it increases in density and grows darker because it loses its ability to give off light. As it darkens and gets denser, the star's gravitational force increases so that it attracts all the other shrinking stars in its galaxy. The density and the darkness of this fast shrinking lump keeps intensifying until the remaining mass of the former galaxy reaches the size of an atom. There is a tiny space inside of this atom that just before total solidification takes place explodes an instant before it gets obliterated. The process starts anew.
I have written an essay entitled WHIMPER about this that I hope will be published. The next stage in the evolution of physics will be the confirmation of my theory by independent sources.
Thank you.