The Grand Design

Seasons past by, days go by ...life stays still...Till it's a farewell.

Life as we say is a journey. The journey which ends in death. But every journey has a destination. After all, whatever we do, all we achieve is death. There is no respite, there are seemingly no options. One has to die, and that is it. So how come we chose death as our destination. Death can’t be a destination. We don't live to die. We live to achieve, achieve a name, achieve fame, becoming a parent, taking the generation forward, playing our part and then leave. I guess life is not a journey, it’s rather a play. And we are just actors in the play of life or the universe as a whole. Each of us plays a small part in it. Some of us because of our talents might get an important role, but no one can extend his part. That is fixed. The play has been going on since millions of years, and will go on for millions of years more.

Let's think of it. We started as cave dwellers, roaming and hunting for food. Humanity has progressed a lot since then .The knowledge has been accumulated in each of the generations and passed on the next generation. Every generations test the accumulated knowledge with its own add ins and invention, verifies and edit and then pass it on to the next generation. The knowledge that cannot survive the test of time and ideas is left behind and replaced by new ideas. It has been going on for thousands of years. This seems an eternal process. Step by Step humanity is progressing , revealing the secrets hidden behind by the  universe itself , so that the actors of each generation have a part to play in revealing them little by little , keeping the play interesting

Science, art, philosophy, and every other stream have seemingly progressed enriching themselves with new ideas and discoveries. We definitely know much more today than say hundred years ago. The generations before were not wrong, neither ignorant. But they can only work with knowledge accumulated by the generations before them. They played their part and that is why people like Einstein and Stephen Hawkins can propose their theories. I think in our morbidity of life, there is a larger purpose at play. The play has to have a conclusion, maybe someday it will. And each of us will play our own little part in achieving the conclusion.

According to Stephen Hawkins latest offering “the Grand Design “we are all part of a grand design. We all evolved by the interplay of the laws of physics , that have stayed true from the beginning or so called Big Bang and till this point. And they will remain true till the end. It’s fascinating to read the thoughts of this great scientist. I could never guess in school that the Heinsberg Uncertainty Principle, and the special theory of relativity, which i struggled to mug up has such wider implications to the world or the universe. It can have implications like time travel, multiple universes, and so on. If I can get fascinated by reading about it now, imagine how fascinated we would have been as students, if only, if only our teachers only knew how to generate interest, and were not just concentrating over finishing the periods.
  

Anyhow, according to Hawkins, if we consider ours as the only universe then our creation is really a special event. Since it means that from the beginning of Universe every condition has just been right to the minutest detail to support life on earth. Had there been any slight variations, in the early universe, there would not have been life on earth.So many people can think of it, as a proof of existence of god. However this also has to be understood that all laws of physics stayed true from the origin of time, till the moment. However amazingly, according to very recent findings, and the so called the M theory, which might be called the mother of all theories, ours is not the only universe that exist. There are numerous universes which might be slightly or greatly different from ours, supporting many probabilities and time quotients. So there can be a universe in which I am already dead, and another one in which my laptop just burst at this moment. These universes might also be having different laws of physics, not like ours.

I don't want to discuss theoretical physics here. Its too wide and complex subject and much beyond my realm of talent. However, it is not difficult to see the progression of humanity in terms of knowledge. I just want to extrapolate this progression to say 500 years ahead. I just wonder how much knowledge that generation would have encompassed. 

 

We all are playing our part in that accumulation of knowledge. So all these laws of physics, who are the real directors of this enormous play, will someday bring us to any conclusion. Can knowledge have limit, a conclusion. Can there be someday, when there is nothing more for the world to know, nothing more for the world to discover and accumulate. The easiest answer is no, it cannot happen. There will always be something, and may be humanity won’t survive the day to discover all the answers. However may be from the ruins and rumbles of humanity, some beings from other planets or even universe, can continue the process of accumulation of knowledge. It might look like a science fiction; however it’s not out of the bounds of possibility and probability.

In the context of the whole Universe, or as we have just discovered, multiple universes, we are as small as a drop in an ocean. So I would it’s difficult to believe that the whole Universe has been created just to support us i.e. Human Life. Won’t it be a huge waste of resources?  In that case god does not have an auditor. There are still huge mysteries sitting on our head regarding our existence and the existence of the universe. But if we see the larger picture, we could understand the coherent events that are leading towards the progression of knowledge. Be it the movement of the world towards democracy and consumerism from monarchies and socialism, creation of religions or the race for capturing resources beyond our planet. Democracy and consumerism are far more conductive for knowledge generation than socialism and monarchies, in which science and knowledge is domain of the chosen few.

For some it might look as the cheap capitalism; however no one would disagree that this cheap capitalism accelerated the process of knowledge generation, accumulation and assimilation. As for religions, however meaningless and bizarre they might look to the men of science, it’s them that helped human kind to survive from the very true possibility of self destruction. It also gave human the hope out of the utter dismay death brings with itself. In the context of the Universe, the only value of humanity as a whole is the knowledge it has gathered over thousands of years. Hence by this theory we are all part of a larger design, design that will one day lead the universe to a conclusion. Each of us plays a part in it. If by nothing else, but supporting the chosen few to keep the process of progression of knowledge going forward.

Thirst for Knowledge

Contained within a single dewdrop tear is a world of education. Mother nature dips her hands into the pool of learning, and as she opens them a mother is revealed bestowing the most precious of gifts to her child – knowledge. The young have a thirst for information which must be fed, and lessons that we learn in youth will map our route through life.