PROBING THE GENESIS
PROBING THE GENESIS
Science is as old as human beings. Still the cosmos (the world or the universe) is an enigma to the scientists. Higgs boson, a theoretical entity, perhaps bestows weight or mass to everything starting from the most elementary particles. It is for the science to unveil mysteries. but in this case it has fallen back upon something that is not in the basket of science. Science has called it God Particle tentatively.
But science surmises that there is some invisible material in between particles of all matter. They call it dark matter. There are huge black holes in the distant parts of the vast cosmos where everything, as though, vanishes.
Recently scientists could catch a musical sound emanating from a black hole thousands of light years away. They found it to be Flat B on a scale 57 to 59 octaves below the middle C of the commonly used scale of a harmonium. piano, or organ.
Recently a huge experiment is going on to find out how the universe was born. The Welsh physicist Lyn Evans switched on a giant Particle Accelerator to know the secrets of the Big Bang with which the world, as we know, appeared. The 27 mile long Large Hadron Collider in a tunnel is to smash sub-atomic particles rushing almost almost with the speed of light. The collider is laid below ground on the fringe of French-Swiss border at the depths of 52 to 183 meters. It cost 4.4 billion pounds. It is expected not only to reveal the condition at the time of appearance of the universe, but also to provide clues to the building block of life.
Some feared, it might change weather completely, wiping out life. They feared even 'cloud and fire will form, as it says in the Bible'. But nothing like that happened. Even a petition in a court rejected the plea to stop the experiment. A calamity that could wipe off all history of the world and of man upon earth did not descend. Let us wait for the findings of the huge experiment.
On 10 September 2008 at 1-56 I.S.T. ( Indian Standard Time) the first flashes on a computer screen showed the protons had traveled the full length of the Collider in the largest experiment in history. They were after it since 1984. Protons ran 11,000 times a second around the tunnel. Cameras went on taking millions of snapshots a second.
Cern, the French organization, piloting the experiment, hopes to reveal secrets of 'dark matter', antimatter, and even aspires to find the clue of the hidden dimensions of space and time.
Some one thousand scientists from 28 countries have joined the venture. From India 30 scientists are working for the project and notably a couple (husband and wife) of Rajasthan University. They are in the joint expert team of Indian physicists that developed the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre in Kolkata. PMD has an important role in the experiment that may unveil the secret behind the Big Bang theory and the origin of life on our planet.
The previous night (9 September) there came a call. A panting voice asked, "What will happen if the world collapses tomorrow? Some scientists apprehend so." I had to say," If some said so, they are not scientists. Someone with the knowledge of science would dismiss it as sheer nonsense. They are non-thinking rumour-mongers. Sleep well at night and wake up in the morning to look at the benign sun lighting up everything as usual."
But a sad news came the next day. A 17 year old girl committed suicide, consuming pesticide, as she could not imagine a space, a mere void.
In the meantime could we pay more attention to the sagging humanity the world over-the growing inhumanity of man, his leaping desire for more enjoyment, lust for lucre, indifference to sufferings of the downtrodden millions in different countries? If man misses his humanity, scientific knowledge will not save him from the ruining effects of a bestial life in the form of a human being.
We must certainly look outside to probe all black holes if we can, but we must also look deeper into our beings and allow the man to grow : 'Avrittachakshuh amritatvamichchhan', turning our eyes inside to become deathless. We must take care of the "black holes" in our minds and bring light of love there, if we want to reap the rich dividends of our discoveries.
(authored by Sri Nabaniharan Mukhopadhyay, editorial for 'Vivek Jivan')
Science is as old as human beings. Still the cosmos (the world or the universe) is an enigma to the scientists. Higgs boson, a theoretical entity, perhaps bestows weight or mass to everything starting from the most elementary particles. It is for the science to unveil mysteries. but in this case it has fallen back upon something that is not in the basket of science. Science has called it God Particle tentatively.
But science surmises that there is some invisible material in between particles of all matter. They call it dark matter. There are huge black holes in the distant parts of the vast cosmos where everything, as though, vanishes.
Recently scientists could catch a musical sound emanating from a black hole thousands of light years away. They found it to be Flat B on a scale 57 to 59 octaves below the middle C of the commonly used scale of a harmonium. piano, or organ.
Recently a huge experiment is going on to find out how the universe was born. The Welsh physicist Lyn Evans switched on a giant Particle Accelerator to know the secrets of the Big Bang with which the world, as we know, appeared. The 27 mile long Large Hadron Collider in a tunnel is to smash sub-atomic particles rushing almost almost with the speed of light. The collider is laid below ground on the fringe of French-Swiss border at the depths of 52 to 183 meters. It cost 4.4 billion pounds. It is expected not only to reveal the condition at the time of appearance of the universe, but also to provide clues to the building block of life.
Some feared, it might change weather completely, wiping out life. They feared even 'cloud and fire will form, as it says in the Bible'. But nothing like that happened. Even a petition in a court rejected the plea to stop the experiment. A calamity that could wipe off all history of the world and of man upon earth did not descend. Let us wait for the findings of the huge experiment.
On 10 September 2008 at 1-56 I.S.T. ( Indian Standard Time) the first flashes on a computer screen showed the protons had traveled the full length of the Collider in the largest experiment in history. They were after it since 1984. Protons ran 11,000 times a second around the tunnel. Cameras went on taking millions of snapshots a second.
Cern, the French organization, piloting the experiment, hopes to reveal secrets of 'dark matter', antimatter, and even aspires to find the clue of the hidden dimensions of space and time.
Some one thousand scientists from 28 countries have joined the venture. From India 30 scientists are working for the project and notably a couple (husband and wife) of Rajasthan University. They are in the joint expert team of Indian physicists that developed the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre in Kolkata. PMD has an important role in the experiment that may unveil the secret behind the Big Bang theory and the origin of life on our planet.
The previous night (9 September) there came a call. A panting voice asked, "What will happen if the world collapses tomorrow? Some scientists apprehend so." I had to say," If some said so, they are not scientists. Someone with the knowledge of science would dismiss it as sheer nonsense. They are non-thinking rumour-mongers. Sleep well at night and wake up in the morning to look at the benign sun lighting up everything as usual."
But a sad news came the next day. A 17 year old girl committed suicide, consuming pesticide, as she could not imagine a space, a mere void.
In the meantime could we pay more attention to the sagging humanity the world over-the growing inhumanity of man, his leaping desire for more enjoyment, lust for lucre, indifference to sufferings of the downtrodden millions in different countries? If man misses his humanity, scientific knowledge will not save him from the ruining effects of a bestial life in the form of a human being.
We must certainly look outside to probe all black holes if we can, but we must also look deeper into our beings and allow the man to grow : 'Avrittachakshuh amritatvamichchhan', turning our eyes inside to become deathless. We must take care of the "black holes" in our minds and bring light of love there, if we want to reap the rich dividends of our discoveries.
(authored by Sri Nabaniharan Mukhopadhyay, editorial for 'Vivek Jivan')
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