EXPLANATION OF THE UNIVERSE
Modern studies in physics have shown that, some 13.8 billion years ago, there was a highly dense cosmic ball comprising all the particles of the universe in space. An explosion occurred in this ball, called the Big Bang. It is said to have been the beginning of the universe. It is also said that soon after this explosion, another event occurred, with the particles in the ball spreading in outward motion in the vast expanse at great speed. After this, in stages, the present universe came into being. The entire cosmos evolved from the original, highly compressed, scorching gas, taking the form of galaxies of stars, cosmic dust, meteorites, and asteroids. The present outward motion of the galaxies is a result of this explosion.
The fact that the particles in the ‘cosmic ball’ rapidly spread out into space following the Big Bang was extraordinary. It could not have happened on its own. It indicates the presence of an Intervener who existed before the Big Bang and caused it to happen. An Intervener, in other words, is the Creator, God Almighty. A supposed cause of such an event as an ‘accident’ or ‘mere chance,’ which atheists might offer in this regard, cannot explain this meaningful phenomenon.
The fact is that modern scientific explorations, including the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe, have taken man to the very doorstep of realizing the existence of God, and now all that is left is for God’s existence to be verbally acknowledged.
We reproduce here a detailed report on the scientific evidence of the Big Bang published in The Times of India, New Delhi, dated March 19, 2014, p 23.
Universe Origins: Giant Boost for
Big Bang Theory
London: An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the signal left in the sky by the super-rapid expansion of space that would have occurred fractions of a second after everything came into being following the Big Bang. Announcing their finding over a global press call, scientists from Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics said researchers from the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) collaboration had found this first direct evidence for this cosmic inflation, a theory pioneered by Prof Alan Guth among others. They said that almost 14 billion years ago, the universe burst into existence in an extraordinary event that initiated the Big Bang. It has been theorized that in the first fleeting fraction of a second, the universe expanded exponentially in what is described as the first tremors of the Big Bang, stretching far beyond the view of our best telescopes. Their data also represents the first images of gravitational waves or ripples in space-time. The team analyzed their data for over three years to rule out errors. They also considered whether dust in our galaxy could produce the observed pattern, but the data suggest this is highly unlikely. Harvard theorist Avi Loeb said this work offers new insights into our fundamental questions: Why do we exist? How did the universe begin? These results provide strong evidence for inflation. They also tell us when inflation occurred and how powerful the process was. These groundbreaking results came from observations by the BICEP2 telescope of the cosmic microwave background, a faint glow left over from the Big Bang. (The Times of India, New Delhi, March 19, 2014, p. 23)
