It's Official: We Were WRONG About the Big Bang

Is it.... Is it like a hard drive?

Like, a hard drive has to have a partition that can be formatted before I can have anything on it.

An unpartition hard drive doesn't have "nothing" on it, it isn't "blank". It does not yet have the ABILITY to be blank. It has to be formatted to be "blank". But it cannot be formatted until it's characteristics (fat32 or NTFS or other kind of partition, partition size, bootable/primary/secondary/?)....

So like....

A POPULATED hard drive consists of:
   - Hardware capability architecture (the maximum capabilities of everything that can happen "in" it. (I don't know if there is an actual analogous counterpart to this in.... "Actuality";
   - the Partition structure - this is not "the universe", but what defines the LIMITS of the universe - size, limits to what can be done and what can work within it. This is where the laws of physics for the operating system and contents are established;
   - the Format -essentially, this is the Big Bang moment;
   - the Formated Space - this is the "physical" universe where "nothing" finally exists, where bits and bytes can finally be assembled into..... Everything.
   - Data - existence as we know it. (This is where Chemistry and Biology finally enter the picture. Because while physics is the study of motion, and therefore is very closely interrelated with chemistry, it has also become the study of everything BEFORE motion too, so in effect is the science that covers the time BEFORE chemistry.)

Now some of where this analogy fails, at least our current knowledge, is that formatted drives can communicate with each other.....

Drive partitions can recognize each other but not see anything that exists within the other partitions. formatted drives can only access each other if the partions and operating systems are compatible, or if they are connected through networking protocols if they are on different machines. You can see the partition structure of your own hard drive only by using special utilities within your operating system. (JWST? lol)

If any of those have parallels in the analogy, would be fascinating to discover them, I don't know that we have yet.

But if our universe and existence is like a hard drive......

We know a lot about the Data in our universe (though there is still so much to learn!), And we have made a lot of discoveries about are formatted space as well. And our ability to understand the concept of our Partition though not yet having etched the slightest scratch on knowing and understanding that yet.....

Am I the only one that is terrified of the idea that there is might yet be ANOTHER structure above THAT, that would be the analogous counterpart to the physical hard drive itself??

I mean... Every time we walk to the Horizon, we see another!