I saw a documentary that showed the history of the earth and life itself. It was beautifully chronicled and more serenely illustrated. However it was based mostly on evidences buried in the sediments of rocks buried in slivers of time and in the open caves of carves sliced to reveal history of the jingles of time thought to have gone by. It covered 13.7 billion years of the birth of our cosmos and the evolution of over 4 billion years of earth. The earth was first a globe of molten lava. Then over millions of years it froze into a crust of ice. And then in another stage of millions of years grew warm and again went through a period of an ice age. In between several creatures made their presence on the planet under the sea and over the dry arid plains and over time moss grew on the rocks which yielded to make way for all the foliage and plant life.
All through the movie I had a critical corner of the brain telling me the far flung imaginations of one’s mind and the extreme vision of your brain to back something that goes back to trace the trails of time.
The Hindu philosophy believes that the world is a figment of imagination and everything is ‘Maya’ an illusion. Some daring observers from the west too have imagined this entire set up being played to some pre-recorded tape.
How do you wipe these blotches and clear your mind and arrive at an analogy that cancels the hypothesis and makes life a more realistic place to stay in.
What will strike you through all this is we had been thinking only about the past. As I write this the present moment has eloped into the past. Only what remains is the future! But isn’t it a fantasy. Things bring us to the evident future of the near and far cosmos that could show its true colours over a period of the coming time. Secrets of the present are embedded in the past and they will be revealed by the future. Mars today is what earth was a billion years before and its crust and atmosphere are undergoing the same changes as earth went through could also be observed on a planet in deep space by the Kepler telescope in the near future or by more sophisticated telescopes that are being thought to be placed beyond the earth’s atmosphere. More of the hypothesis could be proved right or wrong as we experience the shape of proof to come from the study of astronomy and astrophysics. Some evidence has already come (like formation of metals and minerals in the interstellar clouds and the stage of various stars in the star formation) forth and more will follow as time progresses and then we will be able to link what happened 10000 years before and a million and a billion and be able to connect our past with the present and the future in a better way.
We are at the cusp of better understanding of the cosmos.
All through the movie I had a critical corner of the brain telling me the far flung imaginations of one’s mind and the extreme vision of your brain to back something that goes back to trace the trails of time.
The Hindu philosophy believes that the world is a figment of imagination and everything is ‘Maya’ an illusion. Some daring observers from the west too have imagined this entire set up being played to some pre-recorded tape.
How do you wipe these blotches and clear your mind and arrive at an analogy that cancels the hypothesis and makes life a more realistic place to stay in.
What will strike you through all this is we had been thinking only about the past. As I write this the present moment has eloped into the past. Only what remains is the future! But isn’t it a fantasy. Things bring us to the evident future of the near and far cosmos that could show its true colours over a period of the coming time. Secrets of the present are embedded in the past and they will be revealed by the future. Mars today is what earth was a billion years before and its crust and atmosphere are undergoing the same changes as earth went through could also be observed on a planet in deep space by the Kepler telescope in the near future or by more sophisticated telescopes that are being thought to be placed beyond the earth’s atmosphere. More of the hypothesis could be proved right or wrong as we experience the shape of proof to come from the study of astronomy and astrophysics. Some evidence has already come (like formation of metals and minerals in the interstellar clouds and the stage of various stars in the star formation) forth and more will follow as time progresses and then we will be able to link what happened 10000 years before and a million and a billion and be able to connect our past with the present and the future in a better way.
We are at the cusp of better understanding of the cosmos.
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