Ever since the 'free will' got evolved on this planet, the hunt for 'reality' might have begun.The human mind's engagements with this question are also likewise very ancient and in continuity with the same.
The logic , symbolism and the languages have been the tools to define the concepts of reality in space and time or geography and history.The quest for clear understanding continues.This piece is part of that quest.
The 'bio-evolution' was a sort of 'Big Bang' of the biosphere on earth.The mental intrapolation led to the theory of 'BIG BANG' of the Astrophysics.The Primordial Energy, BRAHMAND, got sudden burst ,the bits of waves or quanta of energy experienced immense pressure and temperature and unprecedented motions.The elementary particles(quarks and gluons) got assembled in a few microseconds and the combind sub-atomic particles like protons, electrons and neutrons got forms.Within minutes all the chemical elements we see today were assembled; first simple ones like hydrogen and later on all the complex ones.
The energy particles and force particles have their common origin from the Primordial Energy only.The fundamental forces viz gravity, electromagnetic, weak nuclear and strong nuclear forces, are continuously intracting with the elementary and the secondary particles giving rise to all the physical and chemical processes perceived by the human brains.
We see compounds and substances forming and changing forms;we see different motions and temperatures; we observe conversion of energy into matter and vise versa;we see the decay of all matter particles including protons and neutrons;we see the birth and demise of stars, our sun is one of the countless stars in the universe;we see the origin and extinctions of the species on earth; we see the smiling and wailing children amidst us; we have rise and fall of human civilisations; we witness the battles and wars; and so on.
The NIRAAKAAR to SAAKAAR, the non-manifest to manifest;The ADWAITA to DWAITA,the non-dualism to dualism; The NIRGUN to SSGUN,without attributes to attributes;the 'believers and non-believers'; the atheists, agnostics and theists; the 'determinists', materialists and spiritualists;and so on, owe their origin to this 'Great Cause and Effect' or the 'Action and Reaction' triggered at the initial beginning of 'time and space', the BIG BANG of physics.
The 'unmanifest' gets 'manifested', 'something' gets created from 'nothing', the immortal cycles through the mortality, the 'energy' is indestructible.Different forms of energy viz heat, electricity, magnetism, sound, electromagnetic radiations including light, chemical, kinetic, potential etc., are interconvertible; even the matter and energy are interconvertible.We visualise a sort of "quantum soup" in the whole universe.
The discrete 'packets' of energy , called 'quanta'(singular,quantum) have been shown to exhibit both properties of a wave fragment as well as a particle.The physicists are still struggling to offer mathematical explanation for this phenomenon; through the 'theory of every thing'(TOE).
The great experiment in CERN , Geneva, on 10th September, 2008, is an attempt to decipher some of the yet unknown mystries as also to verify some hteoretical concepts by practical experimentation.The micro-big bang is sought to be created.
Some have expressed fears that such experiment may accidently creat 'black holes' that may annihilate the entire solar system!The 'black matter' even can't aloow the light rays to escape from its gravity.
Having full faith in the scientific fraternity, I am inclined to side with those who repudiate the chances of such an accident occurring.Who would remain to verify the claims of the 'dooms dayers' any way!