Curiosity: Did god create the universe?
PART 1:
According to Stephen Hawking’s cosmic cookbook, we need three things for creating a universe, one Matter, second
Energy, and third is Space.
In 1609, Galileo had analyzed Jupiter from his self engineered telescope, which helped him to see the space 20 times
magnified, every night. The church was not into believing any of this (Aristarchus, in around 280 B.C., had said
that earth was not the centre of universe, and it itself makes revolutions around the sun). Galileo had merely
escaped death sentence for putting his revolutionary finding before the world. He had to take back his theories
and he was put to
life-sentence of public disappearance. He spent rest 30 years of his life in isolation. At the time when
he had accepted his fault in the eyes of church and had accepted the punishment, he had spoken to himself, “Earth
does make rotations.” While observing Jupiter, Galileo had noticed three shining points in close proximity of
the spot of Jupiter. Sometimes there were four, and this number may become four but never increased. He observed
the motion of these four points and it was in some way relative to the Jupiter. These four points were the moons
of Jupiter which were rotating around it, which simply implies that not everything in universe has earth as its
center, and hence Aristarchus was right.
There exist two types of laws in this world: one type is man-made, and second is nature-made. We can manipulate man-made
rules to our comfort, ease and use, but we cannot manipulate the laws of nature which are same for everyone and
apply in the same way on everything whether it is a tennis ball bouncing in the tennis court or it is big ball
of gaseous in the cosmic space taking different shapes by virtue of gravitational pull of nearby galaxies. Nature-made
rules can’t be violated by even God in case if he wishes to. Church had told not to go in depth of space research
to the point of creation of universe, because it has been created by god himself. Stephen Hawking was against
it. He had learnt from his childhood days in London that nothing comes for free, but then this was not wholly
right, this universe was given to us for free, out of nothing.
PART 2:
If we consider a very simple example of creation of a mountain by a man in a large dusty ground in some highland,
we shall understand an important, yet simple aspect of creation. The man starts digging the ground on his left
and pours the sand on his right; he digs on his left and pours the sand on his right to form a heap. He digs
and pours, digs and pours, this happens until he sees himself totally in the depth of dug ground on the side
of his equally high sand mountain. This shows that where he built a mountain we got an excavation as well. In
the overall process, the total change he brought to the surroundings is zero; the world is still there right
from where he had started. So if universe had come out of nothing then from where did this energy come from,
how this huge massive universe came into existence out of nothing? The dark matter, the anti matter is the substance
which answers this intuitive question. Dark matter is present everywhere in space, until the mass and energy
is concentrated itself in certain points in the vast volume of infinite space. The dark matter is everywhere,
unlike mass and energy, yet on a whole when we bring the matter and anti-matter of the entire universe together
once more it will amount to nothing, the zero, right from where it had once started.
This simply eliminates the doubt about the coming up of everything out of nothing after the Big Bang.
Albert Einstein had given beautiful, yet intelligent and complicated, equation E=mc^2 to show that mass and energy
are two sides of a single coin. He said that energy and matter are different forms of each other. This further
shortens our list of ingredients for ‘creating the universe’ cookbook to two; one is Energy and second is Space.
It is known that the creation of this universe had started with one big explosion which led to the release of all
the energy and matter that currently constitutes this universe. Whole universe was of the size smaller than that
of a proton, and it was an extremely condensed mass of black hole itself. Studies on black hole tell us that
their gravitational pull is so powerful that even the light cannot escape of out of one. If we imagine a cosmic
clock that is inching towards a distant black hole, then we find that as the cosmic clock inches forward its
duration of one-moment increases. This decrease in the flow of time continues as long as the distance between
the clock and the black hole decreases. If we assume that the clock remains intact even long after it has entered
the black hole, we see that the clock stops ticking, there is no flow of time inside the black hole, and the
black hole does not see the time passing.
Albert Einstein had beautifully shown how time and space are interleaved into each other. It is not new; it had been
this way ever since the universe started to come into existence. Space and time cannot be without each other.
The universal clock we live in had started right with the zeroth moment of Big Bang, neither before it, nor after.
PART 3:
Because we know that everything that is happening now is a direct result of the things that happened around the place
before moment in question. When we try to explain one happening we point to what had happened before it. This
is how the things happen.
It is in human nature to question, if ask for the reason behind the water-fall, then we get the answer from the mountain
top that it must have due to a water body there. If we question the presence of water body, we see that it had
rained there. If we reason try to reason the rainfall, we see that it must have been because of evaporation process
going in the nearby see. If reason the evaporation process, we see that it is the sun, the source of heat. If
try to reason the heat coming from sun we see that it is nuclear process of fusion of hydrogen with helium, and
other crossed nuclear reactions. If try to reason the presence of hydrogen on sun, then it is the Big Bang, the
process that created the entire universe. If now we will try to reason the Big Bang, then we will have go in
time before it was there, before the universe was there, the time when there was one and only one thing, the
super condensed black hole. The time in question is the about the moment when there was no time. Universe didn’t
need a reason to take birth, the Big Bang wasn’t initiated, and it happened, it just happened. Universe didn’t
need a moment to take birth, it just happened.
Therefore to ask
‘if god created the universe, was god the reason why everything came into being’ means going back in time
when there was no time. It is like finding the end point of the surface of earth, the end point of this spherical
planet we live on.
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