The Unknown Multiverse

Puzzled till now, we the most advanced species of the planet earth, seek for answers of our existence. Many theories hover around temporarily quenching our thirst for answers. Yet we are still searching for the right one to fit in the history books. The Big bang, Darwin’s theory of evolution, Einstein’s theory of relativity,  are some of the best among all which fits well to the blanks but there are millions more yet to prove, to pack the huge gaps and voids and this is what fuels us to churn again and again to deduce the right ones.

If there would be a universal encyclopaedia or a search engine or a library even with that one book holding all the answers of the FAQs and RAQs, then it would be very easier to get all our queries. But I am sorry to say that this book of life is not published yet or perhaps kept hidden by the gods for their reference only.

 Why we are here? Where do we come from? When everything started? And when everything is going to end? , these are some of the enduring questions that boggle our mind from centuries. Still we run forward to find their answers. It’s part of a human nature to fill all the blanks and solve all the problems unknown of the fact that there are infinite to fill and infinite to unfold. We might know about a PPM of a drop from the ocean around us but we say Google knows everything. Perhaps Google is even unaware of its limits!

  Talking broadly, when something is created then it is likely to be destroyed. Nothing lasts forever. May be it will take millions of year to die but death is a must and so the question arises, how and when the end will meet the human race?  Not only humans but everything around us can’t escape the ultimate fate of their demise. The whole universe will also vanish away slowly and gradually and there will be no more questions to answer, but perhaps new ones may arise.

Speaking about when, the most ferocious definition in the syllabus of science, “TIME” pops in. Scientists set expeditions for finding that one equation telling the whole story of our existence but none of them conquer the limitations of time and life span. However there is someone who lost voluntary controls over his body but managed to write the brief history of time. He is none other than Dr. Stephen Hawking and his book “A brief history of time” revealed many secrets about it.

The fundamental unit of time, defined as the radiation frequency at which atoms of the element caesium change from one state to another, makes a second. There are 60 seconds in one minute and 60 minutes adds up to become an hour. A day is the 24 hours it takes our planet to rotate once on its axis. Our months are based on 29 and half days it takes the moon to wax and wane in the night sky. A year is 365 and a quarter days, in which the earth orbits once around the sun. It takes 250 million years to make just one circuit of the Milky Way by our solar system and in comparison, in the entire history of the human race, we have travelled less than a tenth of one percent of that orbit. That’s how time scales us; like spots in a large infinite cloth.

Something similar is very familiar to our eyes in the night skies. There are many white spots in the dark space which are the treasure house of vast knowledge. They have latent libraries of all those answers what we seek for. But it’s not so easy to get into the libraries whose temperatures are apparently 5000 degree Celsius or even more. Yes, I am talking about stars. As per the Big bang theory by Sir George Gamow, these stars were the first to be born and a new era began, the stelliferous era. Since they have ancient origins, they are the rightful choice for vivid examinations. 

The big bang theory has actually sorted out the problem of creation, how we are created, how the elements are formed, how elements combine to organics and correspondingly Darwinism gave us the idea of evolution. At least we can presume that we know few answers but after all these are just theories.

Without turning the pages of history, how can this come to a conclusion? Ultimately history teaches us many things related to our existence. As one of the theories described by Boshongo people of Central Africa tells that the great god Bumba out of stomach ache vomited up the Sun, humans and other creatures. This is quite baseless and superstitious but there still souls present in the world who believes this story.

 Bishop Usher deduced that the first day of creation began at night fall Sunday October 27, 4004 BC in his book ‘The Book of Genesis’. Refinement by others further pinpointed this to 9 am, London time. Some others said it to be created on midnight in the Garden of Eden. They also said we are created by the gods as their most resembled replicas. They created us because they needed admirers to appreciate what they did. In return hilariously St Augustine Hippo, a great philosopher asked “What was God doing before he made the world? Was he preparing hell who asked such questions?”

The Islam religion, being the second largest religion in the world believes that the whole universe has been created in 6 yawm (days) by Allah, however these 6 days were equated with 50,000 years or even more. It is quite astounding that Islam assents the modern Big bang and expansion theories of universe.

Lord Vishnu and Brahma emerging from his navel

The Hinduism, the most complex yet stable religion has foretold many stories to the creation of universe. “The world came into being through the dismemberment of the cosmic man”, “creation originated from a cosmic egg”, “creation of the universe originated in a dream of Brahma (The God of Creation)” and “creation sprang from the tears of Prajapati” are some of the mythological intent of creation of the universe. The Puranas contain many stories that attribute creation to one of the supreme deities, particularly Shiva, Vishnu and the Goddess. The authors of Upanishads struggled with this question of origins. Ultimately, they contended that the source of creation is profoundly unknown.

 The greatest intellectual figure of Western history, Aristotle told universe is eternal; it has neither beginning nor end but existed forever. The most disciplined religion, Buddhism also preaches that the beginning of this world is inconceivable, “There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts”.

The Parallel Universe Theory

Contradicting to the religion and ignoring all the prevailing odds, some scientific minds, fiction writers and thinkers came up with theories like parallel Universe theory, panspermia theory, the ekpyrotic model, the simulation hypothesis, the zoo hypothesis, the holographic principle etc adding more confusion to a single solution or answer.

All these stories about our creation are as diversified as our thoughts. No matter what will be the truth, what matters is belief, what do we believe in; the strength of our faith pillars sinks our confusion and helps us to choose one. Spinning your nervous from all the lines above, here I give out the ultimate mantra which says never believe on others, believe what you see and rest faith on that to survive in such a multi-verse. 

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