[philophyse]

> cyclic universe

I've been shifting towards this point of view as well. When you consider that all of nature, from micro to macro scales, exhibits cyclic movement (in the widest sense of the term), it seems reasonable to infer that the universe itself is cyclic.

This is not to endorse a naive, Nietzshean "eternal recurrence", any more than (for instance) the propagation of a plant from a seed leads to an exact replica of the plant from which the seed came.

[ddingus]

Indeed. That is my observation too.

For me, it was the combination of higher order dimensions, those ideas and what they can mean, and the need for beginnings and ends as an artifact of our own existence.

In so many ways the wave is fundemental. Reality itself being described by them makes sense.