A video about quantum mechanics and red giant stars (https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:ANUx+ANU-ASTRO3x+1T2016/courseware/3d1b19df34ae4fadbd46331ded1c2635/81e5919d928b4c6f8c12879a599c0649/13?activate_block_id=block-v1%3AANUx%2BANU-ASTRO3x%2B1T2016%2Btype%40vertical%2Bblock%4063fb993ec5bc4b4ead9c36bf5945ccd7) by Nobel Physics Laureate Brian Schmidt and Dr. Paul Francis (both from the Australian National University) reminds me of something Dr. Francis said in a previous video of this Astrophysics course. He mentioned linking the very small with the very large. Let's take that idea to its extreme by seeing what we can come up with when quantum mechanics (which is concerned with the very small) is linked to the very large universe-as-a-whole. The result - The goal of this article is to show that the quantum-mechanical principle of wave-particle duality is reflected in the mathematical universe’s finite-infinite duality. (Pauli’s exclusion principle is used to explain the universe’s finiteness, while its infinity uses the inclination angle astronomers use in studying exoplanets.) If that aim is successful, it would suggest that quantum mechanics is not confined to the subatomic world but is applicable to the universe as a whole. The article also tries to show that the mass in space-time is not separate from space-time itself (recall that General Relativity unites space-time with gravitation by stating that gravity is the result of the warps and curves in space-time). In this case of the entire universe (space-time plus its mass) being affected by quantum mechanics, that theory can indeed be united with General Relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity, to form the hoped-for theory of everything, Quantum Gravity. The final parts of the article suggest that there’s no universal expansion and there was no Big Bang (with supporting hypotheses concerning the microwave background and redshift/blueshift). There is also a brief, speculative prediction for the origin of the eternally infinite universe that's based on maths-related computer science of the far, far distant future. Speaking of mathematics, this article avoids equations and formalism – and its geometry is not complex - since the aim is to encourage the reader to use her/his visualization.

A longer version of this preprint has been submitted to a science journal.