The Universe

The Universe

   The Universe so far known consists of millions of galaxies and, trillions and trillions of stars in them spread out in a vast dark space that is constantly expanding and ever-changing with lots of activity within. It is in a state of flux. Hence, it is somewhat difficult to present any accurate picture of the present-day universe in simpler words to make the layman understand the intricacies involved in it! This is also the case of the life on earth, its true nature, the humans and their faith and belief systems, simply called ‘Vedanta’!  Today we get latest reports from the astronomers and scientists in different branches like physics, chemistry, biology about the origin of the stars like our Sun and its planets, as well as life on earth, the nature of the galaxy, the Milky Way. This has been made possible by the powerful telescopes that can detect infrared light (invisible to our eyes).Stars, including the way our Sun grow up within clusters and groups. There are huge masses of clouds of matter moving out from areas where ‘baby stars’ are forming, as if disengaging from the densely populated nurseries where dozens or even hundreds of stars are born. It is believed that our Sun was a binary (accompanied by another star that might have exploded releasing lots of heavy metals like iron, nickel, magnesium, gold, silver, and platinum. It is explicitly stated that the cold rotating gaseous mass of stellar dust or clouds in space get pulled together by gravity. These become flattened discs spinning faster and get shrunk and finally slow down to form a star. This process may be accompanied by out-flowing jets that may span over ten trillion miles! The planets are formed in their discs as we see in ours. Since intense ultraviolet radiation cover the entire region. And destroy the atmosphere surrounding them, it is difficult to know whether massive stars develop the discs and the planets. Another version is that the stars belch out solar flares into space and these 

masses of solar material condense into planets in course of time by cooling. Also, it is stated that the outer rings of solar matter separate from the main body and cool down and condense into planets. There are the nebular hypothesis, the tidal hypothesis, planetismal hypothesis, the ‘Binary Star’ theory, or the supernova theory (where one of the twins exploded), and the like, to explain the origin of the solar system and the planets like earth, mars, venus, saturn , Jupiter, etc. in it. According to the supernova theory the solar system is born due to low mass. Our solar system was triggered by low mass supernova 4.56 billion years ago. A cloud of stellar gas and dust gradually formed into planets. However, it is difficult to believe such an eventuality where the supernova bursts and will have enough energy to compress clouds to produce planets. This assumption is based on the study of meteorites, as the debris around our planet.   

  At best, we can get a picture of the universe in our mind from the visuals about the galaxies, stars, and planets and their satellites, etc as presented mostly by the NASA. We get some facts and figures about the stars and planets from studies by astronomers, the space research studies and their publications. But, all these will in no way help us to get a comprehensive idea about the true nature of either the universe or our existence. Much of the knowledge we possess about space will ever remain just an idea, an illusion, due to lack of personal experience. We can never ever have a true idea of what a galaxy or a star is despite we see them on through powerful telescopes. We have a number of pictures taken from electronic telescopic cameras and nice descriptions of them, too. When we take up a study of these stellar materials our ability to comprehend the true nature of these fails!

    We cannot see or understand the processes involved in the formation of the stellar dust or clouds of gas taking shape in the space. We can never see the sub-atomic particles like the pions, quarks, electrons, positrons, gravitons, and other miniscule invisible objects we discuss here! The electrons move, en masse, at such enormous speed that they are never seen! Let us take the ‘energy’ aspect of these particles, for instance. It remains a mystery where it(energy) emerges and how it gets transformed in course of the hypothetical time because both time and space merge at the end of light, radiation emitted by it?

     At the root of all creation is atomic energy, its instability and vibration, friction, fission and fusion, heat generated from friction, fire or agni. ‘Agni’ is formed out of vayu (air) in Akasha (space). Air is created by the mass of gaseous elements like nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, etc. Hydrogen is the main constituent of the Sun. Heat expands and the cold contracts is the principle. In a given volume of space a certain fixed quantity of  objects can be accommodated.; say, for example, 10 grains of air in one cubic millimeter of space.  However, water vapor can enter in and come out of this space. When temperature decreases air is cooled and the capacity to hold moisture decreases, and vice versa. Thus, any given given space can hold either air or water vapour 100 per cent of space, or half (50%) or quarter (25%), or go on varying along with the varying temperatures. Thus, when moist air is cooled, the the water vapor condense into water drops and precipaitate. This is how thethe universe is expanding due to the particles compressed releasing heat. The space is thus full of massive clouds of stellar gases getting compressed, heated and expanded. This is again cooled and condensed to form the stars and their planets  and satellites. Life is also, in this sense, a form of expanding or contracting energy! This is exemplified in Rk veda where a number of suktas are devoted to agni, God of Fire.

 At best, we can get a picture of the universe in our mind from the visuals about the galaxies, stars, and planets and their satellites, etc as presemted mostly by the NASA. We get some facts and figures about the stars and planets from studies by astronomers, the space research studies and their publications. But, all these will in no way help us to get a comprehensive idea about the true nature of either the universe or our existence. Much of the knowledge we possess about space will ever remain just an idea, an illusion, due to lack of personal experience. We can never ever have a true idea of what a galaxy or a star is despite we see them on through powerful telescopes. We have a number of pictures taken from electronic telescopic cameras and nice descriptions of them, too. When we take up a study of these stellar materials our ability to comprehend the true nature of these fails!

     At the root of all creation is atomic energy, its instability and vibration, friction, fission and fusion, heat generated from friction, fire or agni. ‘Agni’ is formed out of vayu (air) in Akasha (space). Air is created by the mass of gaseous elements like nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, etc. Hydrogen is the main constituent of the Sun. Heat expands and the cold contracts is the principle. In a given volume of space a certain fixed quantity of  objects can be accommodated.; say, for example, 10 grains of air in

one cubic millimeter of space.  However, water vapor can enter in and come out of this space. When temperature decreases air is cooled and the capacity to hold moisture decreases, and vice versa. Thus, any given given space can hold either air or water vapour 100 per cent of space, or half (50%) or quarter (25%), or go on varying along with the varying temperatures. Thus, when moist air is cooled, the the water vapor condense into water drops and precipitate. This is how the universe is expanding due to the particles compressed releasing heat. The space is thus full of massive clouds of stellar gases getting compressed, heated and expanded. This is again cooled and condensed to form the stars and their planets  and satellites. Life is also, in this sense, a form of expanding or contracting energy! This is exemplified in Rk veda where a number of suktas are devoted to agni, God of Fire.

     At best, one can get a picture of the universe in our mind from the visuals about the galaxies, stars, and planets and their satellites, etc as presented mostly by the NASA.  Some facts and figures about the stars and planets are obtained from studies by astronomers, the space research studies and their publications. But, all these will in no way help us to get a comprehensive idea about the true nature of either the universe or our existence. Much of the knowledge we possess about space will ever remain just an idea, an illusion, due to lack of personal experience. We can never ever have a true idea of what a galaxy or a star is despite we see them on through powerful telescopes. We have a number of pictures taken from electronic telescopic cameras and nice descriptions of them, too. When we take up a study of these stellar materials our ability to comprehend the true nature of these fails!

    We cannot see, know, or understand the intricate processes involved in the formation of the mass of stellar dust or clouds of gas taking shape in space. We can never see the sub-atomic particles like the pions, quarks, electrons, positrons, gravitons, chiral and nucleons and other miniscule invisible objects we discuss here! The electrons move, en masse, at such enormous speed that they are never seen! Let us take the ‘energy’ aspect of these particles, for instance, it remains a mystery where it (energy) emerges and how it gets transformed in course of the hypothetical time because both time and space merge at the end of light, radiation emitted by it?