‘Science Fiction’. The phrase has degraded into an old-fashioned state.
’Sci-Fi’ is what the speeding, short-cut seeking generation calls it. Now that
is a beauty. But the reference to the word "now" is actually a
perplexed one. What exactly is meant by saying "now"? What
significance does it have, when we are just a group of individuals clustered
around an aurora of belief that we are something in the whole-wide universe? But,
the universe is not large; it can be subjected to much thought, provided we
have an alternate viewpoint to gaze upon it.
“How did the universe come about into existence?”A question, asked
millions of times and still, without a convincing solution. It might as well be
a paradox, but we are even unclear what the paradox is. We know it is beyond
any simple explanation, but we do not know what makes it complex. If we ever
figure that out, we figure out the answer to the phenomenon called
"existence". But what exactly is this gravely hyped up matter called
“existence”? Most of us would not have an answer. There might be few who can
speak in authoritarian terms on the matter. But their mindsets would be yet to
reach cent percent completion in the hunt for answers. The few who try to mug
up something would be the few whose self-esteem does not let them project the
helplessness of their souls who are waiting for an answer. A commoner’s
explanation may carry the ideology something like this-“Existence, well, it is
something there was, there is and maybe there will be. Just like an axiom, it
has to be there for the equations to have a meaning first, let alone matching.
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What is the reason for existence? On the outermost milestone of
the mind as of now, it can be reframed as “Why is the universe there?”. One of
the biggest and most intrigued mega-questionnaire of all times, with just
one question. WHY? Maybe because God, if he actually exists, felt the
need to do something worthy with his life(If God is said to have a life-span, he
most certainly will have a life; Lord Brahma is said to have a life-span of 100
Brahma-years, so, however large that might be, he ultimately has to die). Now
it’s the continuity phenomenon. What has God got to do with life? Is God so
easy to handle by incorporating that force with terms such as life? We can
place an argument against the aforesaid reason, that life has meaning only for
living things. But, the cross-questioning heightens still. So, if god does not
have anything to do with life. Does that mean he is non-living?- as sturdy and
lifeless as a mountain, for starters, but way beyond; as lifeless and numb as a
piece of stone. According to popular beliefs and the search for the ultimate
answer, God is not that easy to interpret, but if he were so, according to the
previous reasoning, then why do people worship such a person, who does not have
anything to do with life and therefore, is non-living? People will have to keep
themselves confined to their own worlds, not to answer to that. The only
substantial statement, although the summit of a lack of clarity, that we can
make in order to escape this active, yet very much passive situation is that
god is someone way beyond the borderlines of anything existing, way beyond any imagination
or understanding. But that does not satisfy science at all.
How did the universe originate? It’s still more perplexed, but
really less flexible than the previous consideration, as what science demands
is solid proof. But the fact is that science in itself is a mockery of its own
self. Even when science boasts it has found out the mechanism behind the
working of most of the things existing, it can never provide absolute proof to
anything. The word ABSOLUTE needs to be stretched here. Science may provide an
explanation, but it will never be absolute. There will still be a kind of
statelessness as you think one level ahead of the solution science gives you. There
will always be another deeper level to consider because the range of
imagination and the subsequent interrogation extends itself to infinity. Since
infinity can be achieved only theoretically, practicality goes without a limit.
For example, accuracy and precision are concepts used in each and every field
of life. But science can never give you absolute accuracy. However hard we try,
we can never reach the ultimate sub portion of a metre length. You can just try
to extend it as much as possible, but you can never attain that final point.
The Large Hadron Collider is trying to find the Higgs-Boson
particle a.k.a 'God's Particle’, the particle
which gives mass everything we sense around us. But,what if we find a
Higgs-Boson? We don’t get an ultimate answer. Our intellect will naturally
force us to ask the next question. Why does the Higgs-Boson carry mass?
This kind of a rapid fire interrogation will never end when you
think about it. We just knowingly, yet unknowingly try to confine ourselves to
what we can think of, in each and every corner of any expertise. But once in a
while, such kind of a thinking is good, because it helps us see what a barbaric
mental state all of us are having, as in, it helps us to understand the fact
that compared to what we do not know, what we know is not even a needle in a
haystack.
