THOUGHTS AROUND THE C E R N EXPERIMENT

The Scientists at CERN are back at it again. The Hadron Collider has been repaired to resume the experiment. Yes, to know more of the beginning of the universe. To simulate the Big Bang and to understand what all happened post big bang, including beginning of life, to understand matter and antimatter, understanding the unification of waves and particles…. So many intricacies can come to light.

There are many sets of belief about the genesis of the world. Major religions ascribe that the earth is only around 10,000 years old and God created Life in it where as the big bang theory postulates that it happened eons ago (some thirteen billion years at that!). The findings of CERN can question the religious beliefs with much more authenticity and proof. How faith and science can co-exist with minimum level of understanding, will be a question that one seriously asks.

Inspite of so much of explorations and investigations, we are yet to find a planet or a Galaxy where some form of life exists. The more we try to know about the origin of life, the more intriguing it becomes. The dividing line between science and philosophy vanishes at some point. Things become very hazy and confusing on what is right and what is not. Science more or less stops there and philosophy takes over. The CERN experiments will move the cause of science forward. How far? Difficult to predict but one thing is sure, there will be more clarity.

The VEDAs says that before genesis (srushti), there was nothing, No earth, no water, no air, no atmosphere, no nothing…. Then it all starts (the big bang?), Light (agni) comes, then water, single cell life, then multi cellular small beings. Then there is the ‘dashavatara’. First the fish, then the amphibian, then the strong animal, then the man animal, then the small man, thereafter the strong man, then the refined (cultured) man, then the God man so on…

Something similar is said and predicted by Aurobindo Ghosh. He called the new being as supra mental beings, a being which will put all the intelligence and the technologies together into it. A cyborg sort of a being, with very high intelligence that can communicate huge input in relatively small time frame, swiftly. Looking back at the evolution, there is a possibility for all these to happen. And, there is miles to go……. And eons to go.

There is this theory of Adwaita, a situation of no two ness but oneness. All into one. Everything will go into one. The God and his prajas (his creations) unite, man and woman unite, matter and antimatter unite, wave and particle unite, and everything will converge into the oneness. Into the bindu, the dot - he smallest of thing that one can visualize. Everything will go into it. Then it will be Shunyata! Sheer nothingness, simple vacuum……..

Then, it will start all over again, the dot will burst. Another Big bang, another universe, another form of life. Its manifestation in multitudes……

The creation and destruction thus, will continue….. Eternally.

Famous Malayalam poet, Ulloor Parmeshwara Iyer wrote;

“Anantam ajnatam avarnaneeyam, ee lokagolam tiriyunna margam
Atingelangandoridatirunnu nokkunna martyan kathayenthu kandu?”

(Infinite, unknown, indescribable is the way the world moves. To what extent can the man, who is sitting on a far of corner of it, understand the story?)

Is it the truth or Illusion….. Who knows?