How Did We Get Here? From Quantum Nature of Reality essay by Kevin Hogan Possibly the most intriguing element about the pursuit of the origin of the universe is that the subject has been undertaken by scholars and philosophers for millennia. Many of the earliest writings on the planet seek to explain how we got here and why we got here. These sources from all parts of the planet certainly are not in 100% agreement, but the common thread is crystal clear. The universe is self aware and thought designed and created the universe. The specifics of this design and creation may never be known, but we will speculate in the conclusion of this page as to a scenario that fits the current facts. Two major problems are now confronting the Big Bang Theory and pointing toward a universe that if not intelligent, contains powerful intelligence. First, the galaxies in a huge chunk of the universe, a region of a least 1 BILLION light years across that includes our own Milky Way, appear to be moving, all in the same direction at about 435 miles per second, or 1.56 million miles per hour. There is nothing in the known universe, all the dark matter included, that has the gravitational ability to move complete star systems and galaxies all in one direction. The destination, by the way, is fascinatingly enough somewhere past Orion. The second observation, made with the newly repaired Hubble Space Telescope, is even more startling. The Hubble has allowed astronomers to make the most credible measurements to date of the age of the universe-of how long it's been since the Big Bang. They have found that the universe is somewhere between 8 and 12 billion years old. Yet there is almost no doubt that the oldest stars in the Milky Way, which we live in the globular clusters that orbit the galaxy's central bulge, are at least 14 billion years old, and probably older than that. A universe younger than the stars it contains is, to say the least, a fundamental contradiction, according to David Weinberg, an astronomer at Ohio State University. "If these results are confirmed, we theorists will be in real trouble. We really have no good ways of explaining these observations." The connection between these extraordinary new discoveries and the proposal of a conscious universe are becoming clear. It appears that the notion of a singularity, one creation event for the entire universe, is extremely unlikely. It also appears that there is a very powerful intelligence somewhere beyond Orion that is drawing the Milky Way and other star systems toward it at incredible speeds. The credentials of those making these new measurements are impeccable. The team of astronomers and cosmologists at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena is among the best worldwide. The team states that the accuracy of their new measurements are 95% certain. Dr. Deepak Chopra, respected philosopher and healer, says: "A famous mathematical formula, known as Bell's theorem...holds that the reality of the universe must be non-local; in other words, all objects and events in the cosmos are inter-connected with one another and respond to one another's changes of state... Physicists now accept inter-connectedness as a ruling principle, along with many forms of symmetry that extend across the universe..." "...British physicist, David Bohm, who has worked extensively with the implications of Bell's theorem, have had to suppose that here is an invisible field that holds all of reality together, a field that possesses the property of knowing what is happening everywhere at once. (The word invisible here means not just invisible to the eye but undetectable by any measuring instrument.)"