Exploration of the Supernatural

 The fundamental mystery of the modern science today is that: From where do we come from? Does our universe have a beginning? If it has a beginning, will it have an end? If t had a beginning then what was       present before it? What is time? What reality is actually? How can our small 1350 gram brains innovate,          that lead us to the present day? Why dreams come and what are they? How can this incredibly vast universe made up of just 112 elements bound with each other differently? From where does life come from? All these questions lead us to a dilemma. We are still struggling to understand our very own existence.

We are mere programmed devices of god, but how can anyone make something so perfect? If we have a look at each and every cell and the organelle of the body, we get to realize the extremities of the god’s creation. It’s always going to be a mystery-WHO WE ARE? And why everything is the way it is !! Look at the god’s perfection- even though every human has the same anatomical brains, everyone has the capacity to think different. Our brain seems like a labyrinth created by god with over 7 billion combinations possible- which makes everyone of us. Who then created us? Such a sophisticated creation cannot be a mere result of evolution I guess. And by our advancement in astrophysics and cosmology, the day is not far when we might get a clue of what we are in search of. Erich Von Deniken in his book “Chariots of the God” states that it was actually the aliens who taught us and provided us with this knowledge and understanding that we kept on developing over centuries and reached the status of the present day Modern Man- Homo sapiens. Well it needs courage to believe this theory of the extra-terrestrials coming to the earth and enlightening us with their knowledge.

Whatever it may be, let us consider the story of origin of life on earth. There are various theories explaining it. One of the most popular of them states that life originated from water by the random formation of some very complex chemicals- Amino Acids.

Now, to me, it seems very unobvious or wavered that some complex chemicals were formed randomly and that possessed the property of replication i.e. multiplying itself. It I obvious that those complex chemicals- amino acids are basically complex structure of atoms bound with each other specifically.  So according to this theory, its actually the atoms that are replicating and diving with the use of energy. This was the concept that forces us to think on this subject. The question now arises that how can atoms have the ability of replication.

Carl Sagan, in his book “Cosmos” stated that – If some very complex chemicals possessed this property of replication and created new life forms with impressive intelligence, the day is not far we will be able to create some complete new life forms with similar intelligence through some very complex electronics.

Now considering the case of the origin of the universe, it was observed by the Hubble’s telescope that Most of the galaxies and the stars in the universe were blue shifted (Doppler’s Effect). That led to the conclusion that all the stars and Galaxies were moving away from each other. The velocity of a galactic system moving away from us is directly proportional to the distance from us. In other words, the farther a star from us, the faster it is moving away from us.

So this leads us to a very obvious conclusion that initially the galaxies were near to each other. Based on this fact, Stephen Hawking proposed the Big Bang theory. According to this, the universe originated with a sudden blast known as the big bang that had infinite amount of energy and infinite density. And out of that, our entire universe was made that we see today. The big bang resulted in the formation of matter and anti-matter. Fortunately, the amounts of matter were more than that of the anti-matter that led to the formation of the universe. But how did this enormous amount of matter form out of only some amount of matter formed during the big bang? This question is not as easy as it looks like. Scholars might argue stating the Einstein’s famous mass-energy relation: E=mc² . For this equation to be satisfactory there should be infinite amounts of energy persisting in the universe during the big bang. Scholars would state that there was infinite amount of energy that transformed into matter during the big bang. But the question still remains that –  If there was nothing initially, then from where did the infinite amount of energy come from? This leads to very obvious conclusion that matter must be having the property of replication that caused the few amount of matter produced during the big bang to replicate somehow resulting into formation of billions and billions of galaxies and stars. I cannot say how that process of replication occurred but there is a probability that this could have happened. The property of replication of matter might persist just like the living cells have the capability to divide…..

This theory might seem absurd to someone, appealing to some others. But unless we don’t have the right answers to the various questions, we cannot be judgmental.

We can even question the very basic laws of the universe as well, for which we will not have any answer like- Is it possible that the laws of nature we know today are applicable only in some part of the universe and at particular time only? Is it possible that in some other part of the universe, the gravitational force is repulsive and not attractive?

We have no answers to these questions today and that leads the exploration of the supernatural to continue….