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We are 'nobody' but once we know that we are insignificant conscious creatures in a vast infinite universe, we become ‘someone,’ i.e., seekers of knowledge to unravel our greatest mystery – the Universe itself. This Universe has created us to resolve the enigma of its own creation. We may not ever comprehend the finer details of our origins or demise, yet our inability to unearth missing links of the Grand Unified Theory that unites the minuscule Planks (10 raise to-35 m) to incomprehensible Ym (93 billion light years) makes us the most intelligent beings within the known universe so far. Unfortunately, the first target of religious persecution has always been the scientist or cosmologist.
For me, as far as we and the size of our universe are concerned, in comparison to universe, our entire solar system is akin to a 'single atom' hidden in the peripheral side of Mount Everest; our earth is an electron and we are riding on this electron with the sun as the nucleus. This small atom and its inhabitants had so far the audacity to claim itself at the centre of the universe though it is just a forlorn speck in a forgotten corner of universe. We the inhabitants of one of its satellites are conscious enough to try to decipher the whole universe and calculate the distances, may be once we are aware of our insignificance we will be grateful that whatever we know is a bonus.
Are We Alone? Why Are We Here? Are We Real? Newtonian laws of motion (F=ma) and Einstein’s theory of relativity (E=mc²) have answered some questions that have allowed human minds to go some distance. (Newton's theory of gravitation was accepted without question, and it remained unquestioned until the beginning of this century. Then Albert Einstein shook the foundations of physics with the introduction of his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, and his General Theory of Relativity in 1915 first showed that Newton's Three Laws of Motion were only approximately correct, breaking down when velocities approached that of light. The second showed that Newton's Law of Gravitation was also only approximately correct, breaking down in the presence of very strong gravitational fields, though under most conditions Newton's three laws and his theory of gravitation are adequate).
According to Dr. Lederman, for 2000 years - Philosophers, Philosopher-Scientists, and the clergy “*…accepted [Aristotle's] views without question.*” Aristotle taught that heavy objects fall fast and lighter objects fall slower, such as a lead weight compared to a feather. When Aristotle observed that a rolled ball slows and stops he supposed that rest is “*natural and preferred, whereas motion requires a motive force keeping it moving.*” Dr. Lederman notes that this observation is incorrect and he writes that Galileo had the courage and conviction to discover the facts. Galileo discovered how these natural laws really operate, then of course Newton after him, and so on. This illustrates the “symmetry, simplicity, and beauty” that nature has hidden over the centuries. Without the obstacles such as friction and air resistance the symmetry would be readily apparent; and it is described by the abstract mathematics of the Standard Model.
The observable universe is 14 billion light-years across, and our view is limited. Limited is generous, our view is like vantage point on an electron riding around the first orbit of H atom in the core of the earth. This electron sees things around it and wants to define life in New York. The limitations of humans cannot be better enunciated. Humans live in the slow lane, our time zone dictates that, unlike the 'light years' of universe, earth revolves around the sun in 365 days and spins on its axis in 24 hours; our life and time scale is determined by the speed of earth revolution and spinning. Universe works on a different time scale that of light years, at the speed of light the change or distance we move is 0.00000000&&.1 of universe movements. *1/186,000miles/sec*60 sec*24 hour*365= 1/1.74096*10 raise to power 10 AU (Astronomical Unit) is the average distance of the Earth from the Sun (1 AU < 150 million km). Light Year is the distance that light can travel in a year, which is 9.46 trillion km. We are insignificant small players within a humongous jigsaw puzzle, nature and natural selection forces are working on their own humongous scale, let's know our size and stop checking birds for flu and cows for burps and farts.
Our known history of 10,000 years and unknown of 100,000 is still less than fraction of a nano- second in terms of nearly infinite time of universe. Rest assured our generation for millions of years to come will rest in peace very nicely on this abode of ours. May be you are right, that one electron and one proton to create the first atom needs electromagnetic forces to keep the electron in the orbit, may be all that you call dead end evolution is creating the unseen, after all gravity and Grand Unification, grand unified theory, may all need other elementary particles (mesons, muons, bosons, taus, all their girlfriends - antiparticles, all quarks and antiquarks etc., don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi Reincarnation is a reality, death is actually beginning of a 'new life' in different life forms for 4,600 trillions of our linear nuclear chromosomes (a human body contains nearly 100 trillion cells).
Death ensures distribution of our 4600 trillion chromosomes in different combination (Dust to dust ashes to ashes). It is the birth of the beginning of the endless end, where these various chromosomes governed by the number of pairs of chromosomes determine the new shape of our reincarnation. The probability of 4,600 trillion in one body is remote but we definitely come around as a small part of different forms. (Human cells have 23 pairs of large linear nuclear chromosomes, giving a total of 46 per cell. In addition to these, human cells have many hundreds of copies of the mitochondrial genome). Let’s know it well that we are the beginning of infinity, our end is our beginning our beginning is our end, this embodiment of100 trillion cells has no dates of expiry; it started with singularity and will end. These cells of ours will appear and reappear in new forms.
What we are searching for is God particle (physics), the theoretical Higgs boson and the elusive unified grand theory that may combine all the 6 numbers into one equation encompassing bigger and smaller numbers. As of 2010, there is still no hard evidence that nature is described by a Grand Unified Theory. Moreover, since the Higgs particle has not yet been observed, the smaller electroweak unification is still pending. Historically, the first true GUT which was based on the simple Lie group SU(5), was proposed by Howard Georgi and Sheldon Glashow in 1974. The Georgi–Glashow model was preceded by the Semisimple Lie algebra Pati–Salam model by Abdus Salam and Jogesh Pati, who pioneered the idea to unify gauge interactions. The battles of minds continue; we are just at the beginning of our long journey and stay on this planet.
Imagine our conscious stay is only few million years old; we are fresh out of caves, as our written history does not extend beyond 100,000 years even if we include the drawing on walls as part of our heritage. The ideas of mathematics and physics as expounded by the masters are beginning of coherent thought. We have millions of years of conscious life ahead of us even by most pessimist projections. Since post renaissance free minds have achieved so much there is no reason to believe that free mind will not exponentially continue to explore new ideas with equal new enthusiasm and challenge. Pure souls, didn't I tell you not to be seduced by this colourful world For I am the Ultimate Painter. ~ Rumi
We have transcended into a new creed. I think that we all 6 billion should follow the same credo, that of ‘unique human kind,’ we have the same inherited coding, same love; same hatreds; we got to go beyond parochial ideological fixations and reach a universal solution where we should identify ourselves as citizens of this big blue planet, we should all call it ‘mother earth.’ Simple and plain it helps me eradicate the middle man who tells me through his agents provocateurs how to love each other, love is born within me, I don’t need an agent provocateur to tell me how to love each other or that true love is attainable through ‘his’ way. Everyone’s way is so different and so complex; we humans can have only one way and that is the ‘human way’ and love should be our main objective. Let’s go beyond our self made delusions and avatars.
