Written by: Arunesh Manandhar - 23011, Grade XI
Posted on: 16 September, 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 proof to support their ideas on their theory about 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 from 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 there still are many doubts that tend to oppose their theory. Even they do not have strong points and ideas that can claim 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 claimed 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 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 who have contributed a lot on these subjects.
In the sixteen years of my life, I have spent a lot of time staring at the sky at night, and looking at the bright stars that are about thousand light years away from me. But what makes me wonder is the fact that the stars that I have been staring at aren’t actually present in the current time, but they are only the light rays that have travelled 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 reaches the end of the universe? Or What is the end? These questions are unanswered one. No one has ever managed to give a suitable answer for this question. Lots of research 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!
