The Universe As A Power Generator

One of the ways that we can conceive reality, which is completely accurate according to certain facts, is to describe the Universe as a Power Generator.

Every cosmic structure at every scale of the universe generates power. Power of a great many kinds. Stars generate power in their core through nuclear fusion, which these giant balls of gas release as light. In addition to great thermal energy, and powerful magnetic and electric forces that arise from plasma dynamics.

Black Holes for example create a very active region of space in their immediate vicinity. Great gravitational collapse forces, spin angular momentum, electromagnetic forces, and plasma dynamics all occur near the event horizon of black holes.

All of these forces in addition to great kinetic forces due to the mass of these objects. Planets, neutron stars, quasars, and galaxies themselves all generate power in some way, shape, or form.

The Source of Power

The source of this generated power, rather the mechanism, can be traced back to natural dynamics of the four Fundamental Forces.

Gravitation forces mass — atoms — to be attracted to one another. They are drawn together into nebulae (space clouds), out of which form stars and planets. Massive black holes collect stars (and probably accumulates the material that creates stars as well) that form galaxies.

The natural gravitational, electromagnetic, thermal, and nuclear forces that arise from the dynamics of all of these cosmic objects, generates power from the interactions of matter in extreme environments.

In other words, nature was designed to create light, heat, electricity, magnetism, and kinetic forces that arise from matter as a result of gravity. In very literal sense, fundamental forces turn the lights on — and keep them running — in the universe as a power generator.

The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

In the end, the universe is not a cold dead place. While interstellar space is largely empty, and close to absolute zero (-273°C), this is only one perspective.

Yes, there is a great deal of empty space. But the active regions are very, very active. In the case of the Earth, we are literally teeming with life. Alive, the universe looking back on itself, in wonder, and comprehension.

Describing the universe as a power generator is accurate. All cosmic bodies generate energy as a result of the forces that result from gravitational collapse. Electric, magnetic, kinetic, and nuclear forces are all at work with gravitational forces, fundamentally creating a dynamic, living, reproducing universe.

Gravity acts as an organizing force, that makes complex, dynamic environments an inevitability. Heavy elements, light, stars, planets, and life are all born from these dynamics.

Even though the universe functions in a way at the large scale that is foreign to planetary-bound perspectives on environments, the universe is itself alive in a crucial sense. In the sense that it is fundamentally dynamic. Living. Responding to stimulus. Evolving and reproducing.

Another type of living environment perhaps, as a generator of power on cosmic scale.