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3. The universe and its origins
| 3.1 | The quest for understanding | |
| The question of the purpose and meaning of creation is as old as recorded human thought. Why was the universe created? Who or what created the universe? For what purpose? What is the universe ultimately made of? | ||
| The human need to find answers or an answer to these questions, has pushed our quest in hundreds of directions, from the investigation of what makes up atoms to towards the heavens of stars and galaxies. | ||
| From the earliest times of organized permanent settlements of humans, many tens of thousands of years ago, historians have found ancient remains of human created star observatories in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, . We still have remnants of recorded thought from ancient cultures in the Tigris/Euphrates region, Sth America and Egypt and what they conceptualized were the answers to these questions on the creation of the Universe. | ||
| Then we have the mountain of accumulated human reflection on these questions from the time of famous thinkers such as Buddha, Mohammed, Galileo, the Christian scholars, Descartes, Einstein and tens of thousands of others, filling hundreds of thousands of pages on bookshelves around the world. | ||
| Humanity now has multi-billion dollar machines that can smash small pieces of matter to try to understand what we and the Universe are made of, while at the same time we have billion dollar Earth based and now space based telescopes, looking far out into space towards the known boundaries of the Universe. | ||
| Never before has humanity had access to such fantastic machinery to smash matter and look far out into space, to formulate with super computers, possible models of behaviour of the Universe. | ||
| Yet, for all our inventions, for all our thinking, we do not yet have anything more than conceptual models as to why was the universe created? Who or what created the universe? For what purpose? What is the universe ultimately made of? | ||
| Some scientists and students of science may disagree; they may argue that the accumulated mountains of experiment data and carefully crafted mathematical equations running on machines capable of processing millions of bits of data a second represent "proof" of their models being true. The same people may argue that such models as the Standard Model of matter and hundreds of scientific laws represent a comprehensive model in itself. | ||
| However, we are still to see seamless unified theory of matter that explains every particle and every structure in the universe, from the smallest possible to the largest. We are still to see a unified model of every force in the universe that is consistent from the smallest levels of matter through to the largest structures of super clusters of galaxies. | ||
| More than these gaps, for all that searching, for all that knowledge, there still does not yet exist a complete and unified scientific model that answers why was the universe created? Who or what created the universe? For what purpose? What is the universe ultimately made of? | ||
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