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The Uncertain Cosmos
THE UNCERTAIN COSMOS
At The Middle of Manifestation
Note:
With some modification and with some added matter, here
is new article that I publish prior to the previous one. And I don't want to
update/delete the previous blog as it contains the uncovered aspects those are
done here.. Happy reading.
Evolution!
Sounds as a forwardly timed cosmic consequence that had put us to think as our
own ancestors were actually the apes. Many theories hypothetically put forward
that would explain the evolution of mankind. Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution on the basis of
natural selection, for example, holds dominance among many. Likewise, to
explain the evolution of the universe we have been already put behind with many
theories those explain about the birth of Universe. Big Bang theory is to be
accepted as most prominent.
This year, 2015,
celebrated centenary year of the Albert Einstein’s most profound General Theory of Relativity (now
onwards, GTR), on which the birth of the universe can be explained.
Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble really did conclude that the universe had been
started with the infinite space curvature (well, GTR comprises the Gravitational constant which however states that the universe is
static but not expanding!). Experimental evidence from Edwin Hubble showed the
universe was expanding. Edwin Hubble did also observe that the planets, perhaps
the galaxies were speeding apart from the earth itself. Where according to the
results obtained, galaxies were not only accelerating away from us (earth) with
and also he concluded mysterious that the farther the distance of planet/galaxy
the faster they were accelerated from one another. The whole observations were
concluded by keeping Einstein’s GTR and Doppler shift as foundation. Hubble
concluded, from his all observations and calculations that the universe is
expanding, in other sense the universe is been accelerated. That means to say
the space itself is expanding.
The universe is expanding, so that mean there’s a centre
from which everything is stretching? We mean its looks like the centre is
earth, where we live, that is because earth is not subjected to move when we
scaled it. But when we scale the earth from standing on the other part of
galaxy and they could just each look like centre. In fact there is no real
centre to the scaling. There may be point that stay in the same place because
of our frame of reference, which is centre of the expansion of the universe but
to someone in the Andromeda galaxy it would appear that they were the centre of
the expansion. This evidence, combined with the mathematics of GTR allowed
calculating that the farther back in time
we go, the smaller the universe had to be. The natural conclusion is that
everything we can currently see in the universe was at one point in time more
or less at one point in space. And today we call it as the Big Bang theory.
Micro
and Macro Universe
Let us consider two
models namely the Macro universe, an attempt to explain the
universe at gigantic level. Micro universe, an attempt to describe the universe which
scales at subatomic level.
The Macro Universe:
As in our ancient times we are just
amazed what would have been our own solar system and in mean time what it was
up to. And in more recent years we are capable of predicting the existence of
the parallel universes, multiverse and to mention the higher dimension
among the space as well, which are not reachable to our own scientific
comprehensions, which are beyond the chaos among the space. In a word it may be
called the coherent dimensions of space.
Space a dominant aspect among the macro universe perhaps comes next, the
hypothetical models that could explain the giant nature of the universe like
its expansion initial and boundary conditions. As the voyage by the ever since
man made satellite, the voyager which is crossed our own solar system and still
it is on its march. Yet, we are not certain about the initial and boundary
conditions but, however we do have some mathematical conjectures those
could explain the Initial and boundary conditions of cosmos.
Most of the physicists nowadays
quote the universe as a balloon or a soap bubble and we live on the extreme
curvature of it. Obviously when the soap bubble/balloon (on considering it
similar to the space curvature of the universe) is blown, it is much similar as
if the space is expanding i.e. the two marked points on balloon start expanding
when it is blown, and moving away from each other. Now here is no issues,
everything is perfect, the expanding balloon resembles the expanding
universe and the two relatively dotted marks on balloon which are apart
resembles the planets and galaxies moving faraway from one another.
From above all paradigms we
may in some sort conclude from a thought experiment as explained bellow:
Consider an empty box (mostly
vacuum) of size 1*1 foot. Place an empty balloon in it that is to be blown.
When it is blown it expands until it reaches the volume of the box, in other
sense the balloon after blown will expand till it reaches the vicinity of the
box. No further expansion of balloon is observed indeed. This is to be the
boundary condition of the universe. As we don't have even an idea about the
halt of universe, how one must can states its boundary conditions. In fact, if
universe is expanding till now, then does the space have reached its boundary
yet? Or actually universe does not possess the so called boundary condition
nor does it keep on moving regardless of the Time.
The
Hubble and the very most recently launched space telescope which is named after
the Johannes Kepler, the “kepler” telescopes is working with full on
effort in search of the planets or solar system resembling our own. To write it
in a precise sentence, we are in search of the human life beyond our habitable
planet earth. Well from common expedition we are coming up with acknowledgement
from so mentioned giant telescope is that we are finding more and more chaos
within the observable universe. Indeed, they may have too far than they are
measured distance and light has to travel too long to reach us, in consequence
the changes in the physical conditions of the subject has happened are so certain.
Astrophysicists are coming up with the more and more findings of stars planets,
stars and even the galaxies and their natural satellites which are being in Goldie
Zone (the distant area within which can a planet be in habitable zone)
"KOI (Kepler Object of Interest) 701" (Also known as
Kepler-62e-exoplanet and kepler-62f-exoplanet) is found very recently by
the Kepler. (More info and source link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-62
From all the scientific expeditions,
we usually think that our universe is vast nearly containing endless collection
of the stars and galaxies. What if our universe is just one of many could we
live in multiverse or one with parallel universe? Containing other
galaxies and possibly other earths? It isn’t a just a question of science
fiction. Many physicists are taking this question pretty seriously mainly
to mention the string theory which was a unsung theory when it was
published in 1960’s and got eye catch of almost all the theoretical physicists
from very recent years. String Theory is an theory attempting to accomplish the
goal of unification, i.e. The Unified theory, that combines the two theories in
the world those governs the universe, The General Theory of Relativity and
Quantum Mechanical theory. And physicists do believe that the string theory
could explain the physical nature of the universe indeed and hence forth the
emergence of the parallel universe and multiverse.
From the string theory explains and most theoretically believed multiverse
models are as follows:
1. The inflationary multiverse
2. The quilted multiverse
3. The quantum multiverse and
4. The brane (short of membrane) multiverse
Among above all,
The Inflationary Multiverse and Quilted Multiverse are proven experimentally
and the theoretical physicists are yet to figure out the proof for other two
models, The Quantum Multiverse and The Brain Multiverse. And yet we are onto
compensating the proven multiverse. As we probe our expeditions deeper we are
encountering the null conclusions about the macro universe, mean to say; we
are not precise about our macro universe after ages of expeditions and
theories.
Micro Universe:
For every physicist at some time,
for sure they come up with the question what would be the very basic
fundamental building block of matter. Indeed in the early 20th century everyone
was set their interest on subatomic level when J sJ Thomson found the
'electron', an sub atomic particle charged negatively. Perhaps by its
mysterious nature the electron itself dragged attention of all most all the
experimental physicists and theoretical physicists as well.
Sub atomic particles, yes, indeed
the atom, perhaps the nucleus is sub divided into many and many subatomic
particles when we travel in on to the deeper level of micro universe. In fact
the quantum mechanics predicts that we are bound by the quantum wave functions
that guide the entire micro universe. The wave function predicted by the
quantum realm applied to electronics makes us to take the physics into the
philosophical underneath to conclude whether the building block for modern
computing era, the electron is in fact a wave or particle.
If electron is particle then particle of what? if it’s a wave, then wave of
what function? In a single instance it seems that we have entered into
scientific relevant philosophical standpoint, which has never been given a
particular definition. Instead, we have set our own sail to understand the
fundamental building block responsible for all the matter underneath the
manifestation.
Quantum mechanics indeed is the
great development of early twentieth century. In fact the mechanics from its
owed theoretical conjectures and experimental conclusions from all over the
world describes the tiniest building block of the manifestation. In fact the
particle which has been dominant over all the remaining aspect, and which every
part of our day to day life is wrap up with, like from LCD, LED and NEON
signboards to the MAGNETICALLY LEVITATED TRAINS (maglev trains), MRI SCANNING
MACHINE, THE LASER and many are governed by the Electron. The electron in the
world is nothing but the hybrid of the ball and the wave, the waviticle (WAVe
parTICLE) properties, in olden days electrons are intended to implement in
analog circuitry, revolutionized with the analog technology by the help of wave
nature of electron, and after once the electron is taken into consideration as
a particle and now there is a revolution of the digital world. Perhaps we, as a
perspective welcome electron as a hybrid of two, wave and particle nature.
Indeed from Heisenberg’s uncertainty
principle, a consequence of quantum mechanics, we cannot conclude the position and
velocity of an electron simultaneously. That means to say, we cannot predict
the existence of electron at an instance, either the velocity at a time. There
is always and will be uncertainty in the measurement. A further development in
Quantum mechanics tells us that the electron can exist at any position at a
time with probability. Suppose you have a particle and you have been insisted
to measure the position ‘ᵡ’ and to measure its momentum ‘p’ too, the Heisenberg’s
uncertainty principle concludes that the more we are intended you are about the
position of the particle the less precise you can be about the particles
momentum and indeed vice versa. Now, say, momentum to good degree of accuracy
your uncertainty about position increases. It’s not that particle is somewhere
definite but you just don’t know where, rather the particle is, in some sense,
in many locations at once. ‘Δᵡ’ for the uncertainty in position
and ‘ΔΡ’ for the uncertainty in momentum, the principle is encapsulated by the
inequality.
Δ ᵡ × ΔΡ ≥h/(4*pi)
Here ɦ is planks constant. Which is
ɦ=6.62606957 × 10-10 m2 kg/s. But the inequality
shows that Δx and ΔΡ cannot simultaneously become arbitrarily small.
So what electron comprises of? On
the way to resolve the very own mystery of the atom and its particles
scientists found more and more sub-atomic particles those make up the atomic
particles. The particles are divided into three categories literally the Standard
Model(SM) of the elementary particle that makes up the universe and they
are as follows:
- The Leptons
- The Quarks and
- The Gauge Bosons.
According to
the bases of a model all the elementary particles should be mass less. And the
model explains how these particles attain the mass, and the model is
called as Higgs Mechanism. So, finally we come with the very recently
discovered Higgs Bosons.
(Image courtesy: CMS)
Considering the Higgs boson
as fundamental particle the empty space between the electron orbit and the
nucleus of the atom still remains mysterious as considering from Bohr atomic
model. In other words, after all finding more and more sub atomic particles,
the gap between (must say empty) the electron orbit and nucleus remains
unreasoned. However we are still lagging to understand why, the atom is almost
empty. Eventually the whole universe is empty.
The Smallest Length
Something curious happens when you try to combine quantum mechanics with
relativity. To explore a region of space you need to send in a probing particle
(typically a photon, a particle of light) and observe how that scatters
off whatever objects are inside the region. Now if the region ‘R’ is
tiny, with a very small diameter Δᵡ, then
as a consequence of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle your probing particle’s
momentum is "spread" over a large range ΔΡ which includes very large
momentum. But a large momentum means a lot of energy and energy is related to
mass by Einstein’s famous equation:
E=mc2
Where
E is energy, m is mass and c is the speed of light.
Localizing
a particle in a very small region, means concentrating a lot of mass over
there. If the region ‘R’ is
sufficiently small — if Δᵡ is below a certain critical value — then the mass of
the probing particle is so great that a black hole forms and swallows both ‘R’ and whatever is inside it. The
crucial size is given by something called the Planck length: its 10-35 meters. This is unimaginably small, but nevertheless it’s
not zero. So anything sufficiently small is forever hidden from view, according
to this thought experiment. This concludes us that at bellow Planck scale it
makes no sense to talk about distances and length. But does it mean that we
just can’t see anything smaller than the Planck length, or that something
smaller does not exist? As a consequences space itself can be thought of as
made of individual units of planks-length and we cannot simply go zooming into
any closer. “I think we have a good reason to believe that space-time is made
of atoms. If you hold your fingers those 10cm apart, there is a large number of
physical points between them, but not infinity of them. (Says Vidotto , a
theoretical physicist from Cape Town, in spark magazine).
From above all the discussion
we come up again at the level of micro universe that we have not been able to
trace down the fundamental existence of nature perhaps the matter or the
manifestation nor we have not been able to confine the heavenly cosmic
boundaries. We aren't concluding our own existence at a strong stake as because
of the uncertainty resulting from physical experiments that shows again and
again the emptiness covered the entire Universe. From all the measures and
acceptance, the macro and micro universe are almost all are being beyond our
reach, theoretically and experimentally. We are still wandering about our own
existence as we are, however, described physically and biologically splendid of
the physically manifestations and as always it seems comrade tug of war between
the Macro Universe and Micro Universe. We always stay imbibe at
god’s creation, the god itself hides all the dimensions from our reach of
understanding, holds us back to understand the very fundamental nature of the
universe and hence we can have a phrase; we stand “AT THE MIDDLE OF
MANIFESTATION”.
The concept of nothingness in the
universe is preached by the Hindu saints before millenniums. Perhaps they were
just conveying the message those are found on the Holy Vedas. The nothingness
is called as MAYA. The mysterious thing about the Vedanta is, it really
unfolds the knowledge about the whole universe, indeed the very work underneath
the manifestation, and the Vedas are the way to the resident of those
knowledge. Similarly as Vedanta tells, Swami Vivekananda explains about the
manifestation and the physical universe through his Complete works of Swami
Vivekananda. Of course I can write over here, some works of Vivekananda,
but it seems and I wonder I may somehow contaminate his holly words. So,
instead what i do suggest you to read His works, His books: "Complete
works of Swami Vivekananda."
In my next blog I'm going to publish
about the Universal Dimensions. That seems so natural to hear, as we are
already come across dimension like 2D 3D in many aspects like, 3D gaming, 3D
movies and etc. But, I'm saying here not about these seen / observed
dimensions. Rather I would explain you about the hidden dimensions, those
are unfolded by only the Physicist and a Saint, a Saint irrespective of caste,
creed and religion. So be prepared to unleash the D's.
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