Monday, September 6, 2010

The Big Bang and Me

I am quite fascinated with the whole idea of origin and the end of the universe!

The hindu tradition says that the Universe starts and ends with OM...."it is the beginning and the end"..It has been said that if you can pronounce OM in a particular way then you would realize how the universe began and how it is going to end! If you actually pronounce it the way it is written in the vedas...then you would realize that the beginning is very dramatic...instant/fast...while the mid part is fast ....the end is really really slow..

So what does all of that has to do with the Big Bang!!! Well here is something that is really fascinating with Big Bang theory..

So, first of all for people like me...(non-physicist) ..Big Bang theory is supposedly the well-accepted theory to explain the beginning of the Universe..and this is what it says about the universe.

"The universe started from nothing, there was suddenly a huge huge huge explosion such that you can not imagine...and then there was a period of rapid expansion and so on....and the universe is still expanding..etc etc..."

This is my problem with Big Bang!!

How the F*** can everything come out of singularity??
I can understand few particles being created from energy!!!....I can never imagine the whole universe getting created out of SINGULARITY??

Alright, so if everything came out of singularity and there was so much energy at the beginning?? where did that energy came into being?? Also, there are so many problems with the Big Bang.. it does not answer so many questions like how the hell the temperature throughout the universe is almost the same...then they came up with a new theory...something called as "Inflation"...everyone understands what inflation means...

but this is what you can never understand:
After the big bang..within 10 ^ (-37) second there was a process of inflation..wherein all of the initial universe got inflated so the temperature throughout the inflated universe was almost constant ...and then there was rapid expansion...

you get baffled with all that the physicists have to say .....
but most of the times they talk something which is beyond common sense...even the most brilliant minds of the world sometimes do or say certain things which do not make sense at all!!!

"within 10^(-11) seconds there were protons and neutrons....within few minutes the temperature was a billion kelvin and the density was that of air"

this is preposterous!!!

First of all...
What is the proof??

just because you can extrapolate theory of relativity and then reach to state of singularity does not mean thats the answer !!!!

There are so many things which are going against the theory!! I mean how can you suddenly say...."please just for this time....only this time.....all the laws of physics that we have written are not valid....only this time ...please....dont mind even if that is the creation of ours!!!"

Also ...there is another theory called string theory....do not want to go into the details...

the string theory says that universe is like a loaf of bread and all these slices are the parallel universes ..separated by a distance...not even one millimeter in length.....in like n dimensions and when two parallel ..universes collide then it is like the big bang and thats what caused everything....and that we are living in one of those universes....

But here is the problem...

That still does not explain the beginning of the universe??

Now here is my problem!!!

If I follow Big Bang Theory....
The thing it is trying to explain is not explained at all:
"This theory is trying to explain how the universe came into being ...in a scientific manner...First of all it does not explain in the accepted scientific manner, secondly it also does not explain where the whole energy of the early universe (the singularity) ..came from??"

If I Follow String theory:
Even if I accept I am living in a slice of the entire universe ....still that does not explain where the whole loaf came from??

Although somehow I have problems in accepting the creation of Universe by God...

alas...I dont think I have an answer for the time being ..to debate with my religious friends!!!

Unless:

We are nothing but some experimental animals living in a zoo......created by a really really super powered Alien civilization...
and all that we see/do/understand/explain/hypothesize ....etc etc....
is nothing but a mirage and the inputs that we get from the outer space is nothing but ....some maze created by this advanced civilization!!

Now you may ask...how the F*** we can get confused between a light coming from this star and that constellation......etc etc....

Ever Wondered How the DOG can Bark at his own Video !!!!!


keep on thinking......

1 comment:

  1. Interesting views, Shirish.

    I guess the problem lies in the way we see physics. Physics is typically explained by an observer. However, we often (even in engineering) run into problems of time and length scales that can not be explored.

    I wonder these things can be explained by observations limited by the length and time scales humans can capture.

    - Ashish Sangwai

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