Pathways
When we push one end of a stick, we see the other end appear to move at the same time. However, there is a slight delay, imperceptible in a broom handle but there, nevertheless. A wave of crumpling and re-expanding, all along its length takes place. The path that the wave takes is somewhat longer than the stick itself. It is zig-zagging. Gravitational delays occur in the same way. When an object moves, it imparts a change to the gravitational force even on objects that are very far away. The delay in the reaction is brought about by the increased length of the pathway between them compared to the actual relative distance apart. If a mosquito gets struck by an oncoming train, it gets stopped momentarily and therefore the train is also stopped albeit briefly. Except that the fly does not stop, it takes a u-shaped path crumpling and has its trajectory gradually shifted around a semi-circular route. Paths are often neither straight nor direct.
If god made the earth, who made god? What was there before this universe came into existence? Simple questions that children are renowned for asking and are difficult to answer, though some adults with childish humour counter theses question with aplomb. The ignorance paradox is a knowing, not knowing conundrum. If the universe had come into existence in the way we see it today, not once but multiple times, we have no evidence, nor knowledge of the previous incarnations. These universes would have come and gone entirely. The information interacted then stopped interacting. With no memory, no crossover between incarnations, each incarnation therefore never occurs. You exist, then you don’t. The history of each incarnation is not recorded. Each incarnation appears and fades leaving no trace. I hope that helps you reframe the notion of before and after. There is no before this incarnation nor anything after from our standpoint now. A human may like to enumerate each incarnation giving this one number 269. However, each incarnation is the first incarnation as there is no deposition made each time. This incarnation is the testament to that. The evidence for everything revealed here is all around you. You can study structures and their formation in your own time to change a hypothesis via belief to a firm understanding.
The scope of the space containing the universe is not infinitely large but is a void of null size. The true atoms change their relative distances apart, effectively occupying more space in the void. Time remember is an abstract human concept. True atoms materialise and move, at different relative velocities. When the conditions are right, enough in close vicinity they change state once again. Spawned from nought. Returned there periodically – though each period is not counted for each period wipes the history of all that went on.
Might you return in a future universe and make the same mistakes? Humankind is quite likely to re-emerge. It is reasonable to suggest that someone with the same genes as you will be born too. The chance of the environment you grow up in being the same is rather slim. One conversation in an unbelievably chaotic world can lead you down a different path. A teacher may or may not convince you of something. You may or may not have a similar accident, or incident. Your preferences will of course guide you in similar ways, however, the probability of living fundamentally the same life is hyper-unlikely. No matter how rewarding you find your life to be, no matter how influential, how exciting and prosperous, you will die leaving no trace and have no memory of the disappointments. A life is true atoms changing relative positions until they respawn their interaction with one another.