Written by: Arunesh Manandhar - 2022002, Grade X
Posted on: 22 February, 2021
It is a well-known fact that the existence of life on earth is a mystery and it is impossible for scientists to present the proof to support their ideas on their theory about the existence of life. But let’s dive into something deeper, deeper than the Pacific and larger than the Atlantic. If we see our present scenario, we human beings along with numerous organisms are living within a large sphere called the earth and it has been the same for billions of years, starting from the evolution of the first plant life to today’s generation of humans. But no one still knows how this all started. Scientists claim theory about the big bang, but they're still are many doubts that tend to oppose their theory. Even they do not have strong points and ideas that say that everything started from the big bang.
Big bang suggests that at the beginning, there was just a small atom within nothing, a complete vacuum, and all of a sudden it exploded releasing a lot of energy emitted out from it, and the universe was created. They also claim that the universe because of the released energy, keeps expanding on its own. However, the problem in this theory arises when a question is asked, “If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?” Albert Einstein said that the universe is equivalent to a sphere without any boundaries. But if there are no boundaries in the universe, and someone becomes able to reach to the very end of it, where will they reach? This question might even arise in the brain of a curious child looking in the eyes of an adult waiting for the answer. But they get nothing because the answer to this is not even answered by any brilliant individual who has ever lived. Many scientists got involved in the research for these topics and many died without knowing the answer, many are still working to answer these questions. Michio Kaku, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking are some of the brilliant individuals that have contributed a lot on these subjects.
In the sixteen years of my life, I have spent a lot of time staring at the night sky and looking at the bright stars that are a thousand light-years away from me. But what makes me wonder is the fact that the stars that I am seeing aren’t actually present in the current time, but they are only the light rays that have traveled about thousands of light-years to us so we can observe it through our naked eyes.
The question still remains, how did it all start in the first place? How did we all end up being here rather than any other places in the entire universe? If the universe expands, what does it expand into? What happens if someone would reach the end of the universe? No one has ever managed to give a suitable answer to this question. The research for the answer is going on and will be for even more centuries until one day someone would actually come to humanity and prove that God is real!
