Just anyone who has been ‘initiated’ into the etymologies of science would know that the universe, at the beginning of time, was a blaze of radiation, too hot for any atoms to survive. In the first early moments, thereafter, it cooled down somewhat for the nuclei of the lightest elements to form. Yet, it wasn’t enough for whole atoms to appear. It was only millions of years later that the cosmos became cool enough for simple molecules to form. After that, the wait was almost eternal. Of billions of years for a complex sequence of events to take place—one that led to the condensation of material into stars and galaxies.
It was an extraordinary cosmic act, which was followed by the appearance of a stable planetary environment, replete with the biochemical process so complicated that we now have difficulty in understanding them in spite of our scientific and technological advance. So much so, the big question remains: how and why did this elaborate chain of events begin in the first place? There are as many theories as there are models. Yet, a majority of the theories reveals nothing new about the structure of the world. All they do is simply efface the spectre of the unknown from our own imaginings.
The Big Challenge
Our biggest, and most profound, challenge today is not only the need to achieving much more than explaining what-is-what-as-it-is, but also bringing in coherence, a strong sense of unity to collections of disconnected facts—and, not just broad accounts, or directions. That such a method would be handy, without hyperbole, but not as justifiably obvious, as it may sound, is passé. Not that it could be ‘flawed,’ because of its appropriate assumption that the laws governing the workings of our living planet apply throughout the universe—until one is compelled to conclude with just the opposite view.
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