Read recently the book by an eminent scientist – Stephan Hawking titled 'Black holes and baby universes'. Not that I understood much from this book, but it simply is a fine read. It is loaded with a lot of scientific information. I could only get an idea about few concepts discussed in this and I got my own idea about this. The key questions addressed in this book seemed to be
- Was there a beginning of universe
- Who created it and who controls it – God or Science
- Will the world continue forever or will it come to an end. And how would this end be.
Not that the whole book of nearly 200 pages have discussed only the points mentioned; only these points can be taken by my mind. And only these points; not the details discussed about these points.
The creation
There must be a beginning for everything. Every life has a beginning. Every object that we see has a beginning. Every event - big or small - that we witness has a beginning. So apparently this world that we live in, and the universe of which our world is a part (and whatever else it comprises of), should have a beginning. And who and how has it been created. The easiest answer is that it is all the work of god. No further questions. Or the answer to all questions is just this one word. 'GOD'.
And for people who do not take any easy answers, its created in an event called 'BIG BANG'. At this point the entire universe is contained in one atom / cell / whatever which has the energy which our super computers would take years to compute. This Big Bang has created all the particles in the universe – particles as large as thousands to millions of miles in radius which is spread over in the universe. And hold on. They are rotating, revolving and moving away from each other. Now this is beyond my comprehension. What is moving away from what and to where. The moon that I saw as a child still seems to be at the same place, the sun comes and goes exactly from the same direction at the same time. Even the stars seem to be at the same place though I could not identify one from another.
The answer seems to be that we should look at the big picture – as though the view of moon, sun and other stars is a very narrow view. Our galaxy (means?) consists of billions of starts and is just one of the galaxies of billions of galaxies that form the universe. And the solar system is just one a few starts (roughly around 100) in our galaxy. So our earth is just one of the stars (did I say our earth as a star) among trillions (is there a bigger number) of stars out there and my city probably of size one trillionth of earth and my flat roughly about one trillionth of my city and myself merely occupying 5.5 cubic feet of nearly 25000 cubic feet which is the capacity of my house. And that puts me in the right perspective. You are too small to think big enough. The stars move together away from each other.
And this leaves a lot of questions – if the word is created by an event called big bang, then who created it. And for what has it been created. And if before the big bang, the universe has been as one atom / cell – Who created this atom. And who has put all this energy into this one atom. And for what reason has all this been done. Who gets benefitted from all this? Is there somebody who is losing out? Or is this all done to satisfy the sarcastic pleasure of someone? Think science would take a lot of time to answer these questions – probably millions of years. And who knows. It can conclude that 'God is the creator' and probably the destroyer as well as by the time these questions were answered the world might have ended.
