Day by day and minutes by minute, I can feel within me, this unstopping urge to know more and learn more and more.
This overwhelming interest in Physics, the laws and principles, the theory behind them and the great minds who involved in their formation- And above all, the search for the truth for its own sake.
This overwhelming interest in Physics, the laws and principles, the theory behind them and the great minds who involved in their formation- And above all, the search for the truth for its own sake.
The more I research into the more I feel I am farther from the reality; the truth, the simple reason and logic behind the creation of this large universe....I want to know the how and the why of every questions I have that evoke in my mind every day every time I look at the sky to see the stars millions and millions light year away and yet get puzzled how these massive structures came into existence and how they managed to generate such enormous powers.
Light, as I viewed from my childhood....it was to me as taught in school just a form of energy which always travels in a straight path un-deviated by any external factor. I had this belief for almost 13 years and when I started to peek into the world of physics I was so amused and pretty much fascinated too on knowing that gravity has effects on light as proposed by one of the greatest minds Albert Einstein in his papers published in 1905. Also it was surprising that light being a wave sometimes behaves as a particle and vice versa. (Sounds strange to believe but is true). Hence another question that hits my mind from this illogical phenomenon- Does light have mass? If it acts as particle then it should have a mass, should not it?
fabric of spacetime Another question troubles me and that is gravity itself. Every day and everywhere we observe this phenomenon in our life and most of us view it as normal. Most of us do not find it strange, but to the physicists and to me as well, this has been one of the many unsolved puzzles of physics. What is gravity? Why is it even there? And how does it work? It is supposed that at the time of the big bang, there was super symmetry...it was perfect and balanced. But why did that symmetry fall apart to create this unsymmetrical world? What caused the big bang? And what powered it!!Above all why is Gravity so Weak, as compared with the other forces that govern the nature? What could explain this bizarre world where the realities all lay behind mere illusions that encourages us to view this world so simply? Physicists have proposed many theories including two of the most important and well recognized “String theory and M-Theory” which try to define the situation in terms of quantum events explaining that the gravity is not weak actually rather, it is an Illusion created that instigates us to think the way we perceive them. Again this raises yet another question....the existence of multi-dimensions space.
ET Are we not alone in this vast universe? Are there alien being on other galaxies? Who knows? After all, the universe is vast and we have just reached the mars so as to say physically-we are like the fish in the pond that spend whole of their life in it thinking they have a limited space and the world to them is just the pond they live in !! Maybe there are extraterrestrial living beings in higher dimensions! We could not predict for sure but there are chances.
Nevertheless other questions still to be answered ...i.e. about the dark matter, black holes, wormholes and the possibility of Time travel.
What are black holes? What is their gravitational power (force)? Why do black holes emit radiation and not visible light? What is at its surface? What happens to someone if s/he steps on the surface of a black hole? What effect does it have to the fabric of space time?
It is postulated that if one attends nearly the speed of light, time slows down for the person as a consequence s/he has time travel....but is it possible to attend the speed of light for any creature. It is proven that weird things happen when 99.9999999999999999999…… percentage of speed of light is attained- the evidence is the longer existence of matter at the particle accelerators. If we follow the Equation E=mc2 it seems impossible because by the time one attains the speed of light one would have gained infinitely large mass and also would have consumed infinite amounts of energy!!This limits the speeds!!However, there has been proposed an alternate for time travel and for shortcut routes to link other places in universe and those shortcuts are Wormholes. Can wormholes be used as time machines and shortcuts to other places in universe? But wormholes have a Very small life span and they open only for fractions of seconds. If anyone tries using that route they may be crushed or dematerialized on the middle or they could end up at some weird place!
Wormholes The best of my queries lay on the universe itself. How old is it? And how colossal is it? How did it all start and from where did they all come from? What is the age of the universe and how long will it remain there? Where are we actually? Are we in the middle or the edges of this infinite place? Who created it all? Is there anyone who created everything? If yes, then who created the creator? Is the universe really expanding as they say or is it contracting, who knows for sure because no scientific finding is ever long lasting?
Moreover, was there a big bang ever? This is just a small part compared to this infinite universe and its hidden mysteries. I hope to get all my questions answered someday and it would be even more my wish to do it on my own. It would be fun, exciting and thrilling to unravel the truths of this vast creation and nature, wouldn’t it? I guess that I’m on the right track and hopefully someday my instincts would lead me to the place where I am born to be.
© Anil Bhattarai
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