Continuing with my first theme on the existence god let me put a question which has baffled me since the time I was a kid. We all have heard stories from our grandparents about the creation of the universe. One of the Hindu mythology talks about the earth/universe being a by-product of the churning of the heavens by the angels and demons to retrieve the elixir of life. Christian mythology talks about Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit, to some extent the same story continues in the Islamic story of creation and so forth to other religious beliefs. All these mythologies written so many hundreds of years ago talk of the same thing- the world being created by god, either directly or indirectly.
So the obvious question here is who created god? My granny told me “no one can create the creator! There is no beginning or end for him!” easy answer right? She might have bought that answer. I for sure wouldn’t buy that. So what exactly happened?
Here’s where I learnt about the big bang. The “theory” behind the creation of the universe, one of those theories by the intellectual lot which angers the church. But of course, when we were totally clueless about the story of creation, men like Georges Lemaître have actually helped with their rational thinking. But remember, big bang is still just a theory! It’s just the only one well supported theory we have as of today. So we have no option but to go by this.
Now to think about it big bang tells us that the universe begun as an extremely small and immensely hot and very dense particle (also known as the god particle or the higgs particle) which exploded, cooled and ever since has been expanding. According to experts before this particle there was nothing called space in the cosmos. So where did this particle come from? No one knows. But at-least, the scientists at the CERN tried to understand this much and started creating the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. The LHC tries to simulate a “mini big bang” to see what it was when the god particle exploded. Myself, like many was looking forward to this whole hyped-up experiment. As this was the one event which could try to give explanation on the story of creation.
We all know what has happened with the LHC now. It’s passed as a joke as of now. Within two weeks of its start, a helium leak force stopped the whole experiment. A time for celebration for the theists begins. The helium leak is interpreted as a "Divine intervention" by them. After all they say, “you are a creation of god. Trying to get into his shoes is dangerous”. Well, I maybe a strong believer, but I would surely want the experiment to come out with some answers. One good point I heard from my friend comes to my mind now- “If god really created you do you think he would give you the power to understand him and get into his shoes? Once you understand there’s no point in him being there” nice point.
Anyways, its 1-0 favoring the theists now. Let’s see what science comes up with next! Till then my question of what was the starting point of everything will remain unanswered.
So the obvious question here is who created god? My granny told me “no one can create the creator! There is no beginning or end for him!” easy answer right? She might have bought that answer. I for sure wouldn’t buy that. So what exactly happened?
Here’s where I learnt about the big bang. The “theory” behind the creation of the universe, one of those theories by the intellectual lot which angers the church. But of course, when we were totally clueless about the story of creation, men like Georges Lemaître have actually helped with their rational thinking. But remember, big bang is still just a theory! It’s just the only one well supported theory we have as of today. So we have no option but to go by this.
Now to think about it big bang tells us that the universe begun as an extremely small and immensely hot and very dense particle (also known as the god particle or the higgs particle) which exploded, cooled and ever since has been expanding. According to experts before this particle there was nothing called space in the cosmos. So where did this particle come from? No one knows. But at-least, the scientists at the CERN tried to understand this much and started creating the Large Hadron Collider or LHC. The LHC tries to simulate a “mini big bang” to see what it was when the god particle exploded. Myself, like many was looking forward to this whole hyped-up experiment. As this was the one event which could try to give explanation on the story of creation.
We all know what has happened with the LHC now. It’s passed as a joke as of now. Within two weeks of its start, a helium leak force stopped the whole experiment. A time for celebration for the theists begins. The helium leak is interpreted as a "Divine intervention" by them. After all they say, “you are a creation of god. Trying to get into his shoes is dangerous”. Well, I maybe a strong believer, but I would surely want the experiment to come out with some answers. One good point I heard from my friend comes to my mind now- “If god really created you do you think he would give you the power to understand him and get into his shoes? Once you understand there’s no point in him being there” nice point.
Anyways, its 1-0 favoring the theists now. Let’s see what science comes up with next! Till then my question of what was the starting point of everything will remain unanswered.
