I've got that all beat cold.
Sometime in the next few years, a scientist at CERN may well press a button and become God.
Remember in
Men In Black, the cat's galaxy pendant? Imagine creating a little ball with trillions of galaxies in it.
That's what may happen.
There is a current theory that the CERN accelerator is capable of producing the particles that not only created the Big Bang, but also the material itself. This isn't far fetched. Scientists have created the nuclei of such things yet all of them have collapsed in on themselves instantly. Finally, however, the CERN collider may create a ball of Big Bang matter of enough stability to expand rather than contract. If that happens, don't worry. The time space existence of this object will immediately pop out of our universe and into one of it's very own and there it will Big Bang itself.
Imagine that all that you know and see, think and feel, all the voyages of Star Trek, Dr. Who, and Star Wars, were they real, every living thing, every inanimate thing from a frying pan in Aunt Muriel's cabinet to the spoke on a moped wheel in Bangalore to a chipped rock on planet Mu Ceti. Your child's fingerpainting on the refrigerator, great wars, great loves, great music, bad movies, beer with friends at the bar, pearl divers in the south pacific, a caribou's antler, each leaf, each person you don't know and all the people they know and you still don't know, entire civilizations, every person who originally gazed on the pyramid at Giza, birth, living, death, all of it, everything you can and cannot comprehend, being created at the press of a single button in Switzerland.
If you can even remotely begin to grasp the vastness of it all, the complexity of it, all being created at once, that's what will likely happen. One person will create a Big Bang in a universe which he or she will have created and that universe will grow to become as enormous and distant and complex as ours complete with its own laws of physics and even the capability of creating life. All life in that universe, all art, all love affairs, all comedy shows, all bargain sales, all things so remote life will never never discover them, all great cataclysms and miracles, will happen in that universe will happen because a person here on Earth, in our universe, will cause it to happen.
Create Your Own Universe. Now let's imagine CERN sells opportunities for people to press the button. What would you pay to be a God knowing that you can instigate the creation of a new universe? Being responsible for the potential of trillion of souls, maybe some even worshiping you as the creator or cursing you for being the destroyer?
No!!
