Sunday, July 22, 2007

A Layman's Views of Cosmology

The other day only I was talking to a friend about what we know and think about cosmology. We are just laymen not knowing the nitty-gritty things of this branch of science. We only know what comes too easily and visibly in our perceptions. And after a brief deliberation we came to the conclusion that the theories of Big Bang and Steady State propounded by the scientists are just mere hypotheses. At least to laymen like us who believe what they see under the sun.

They say that the universe is continually moving and expanding tending to reach a certain point and thereby creating a situation of implosion which can pave the way for the second Big Bang. But nothing is proved to draw a viable inference for us. And again, when Stephen Hawkins say of the situation during the creation of the universe at the ten to the power minus twenty-ninth of a second, we just get bemused at the idea of that spatio-temporal consequences of the universe of that humanly imperceptible moment. These theories are far from our cognisable perception. We laymen cannot voice our feelings of our befuddled knowledge. We are at a loss and everything is at a stake for us.

We are small people. Big Science never enters our world from the back door. We remain aloof and outsider as ever. Is not it?

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