The connection between the anvil and human evolution

Answer to someone who asked me what will be the ‘mother of all myth buster’

My answer – ‘Looking back in time’

Just a faint blue dot - Voyager 1 was the first of twin spacecrafts launched in 1977 to reach Jupiter. This image, called "Pale Blue Dot", was taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. When the spacecraft had completed its mission and was returning home NASA had it turn its camera around and take a picture of Earth. This is what Earth looks like from the edge of our solar system, 3.7 billion miles away.

The famous astronomer Carl Sagan shared this insight about this image:

"The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. "

As we look at other galaxies we are essentially looking back in time. Light is a torrent of photons that travel at 299,792,458 meters per second or 6 trillion miles in a given year. The light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach us here on Earth, so when you look up at the Sun you see it as it was 8 minutes ago! The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about 25.2 trillion miles away; a photon emitted from that star would take nearly 4.2 years to get here. When we look at Proxima Centauri, we’re seeing the star 4.2 years ago.

One day hopefully we will be able to look at the big bang plus minus 100,000 years. Observable universe is 78 billion trillion miles, or 13 billion light years away, when the Universe was less than 100,000 years old, the matter and radiation were so densely packed that light was "coupled" with the matter. This means that light which was emitted when the Universe was less than 100, 000 years old couldn’t escape. One day may be with the correct set of tools we may cross the event horizon opaqued by CMB that separates us from the Big Bang and go through it to be able to probe down to the moment of Big Bang itself. Imagine watching by the ring side our ‘birth’ from nothingness.

The day is soon approaching we will be able look from a Voyager kind of space craft from a distance where light from our earth will take 2.5m- 10,000 years, a distance few hundred trillion miles. We can than look back in time, a close watch of the last 2.5m- 10,000 years of our history will able to bust all the myths especially when did the God rested and how Noah collected the species or when did the flood enveloped the whole earth or the day when the Nile opened up or bifurcated defying laws a fluid dynamics and gravity and day moon broke into two pieces defying laws of astronomy and geo physics? And ‘who’ if ever walked in flesh on the face of this earth. It is only a question of time, all these myths and fables that we have created in the last few thousand years will be busted as we will look back at the history from a vantage point in hopefully less than a century.

I am sure in a century our mindsets so oriented towards dogma will be considered as part of dark ages. People will look at our churches, temples and place of worships and treat our myths like we treat the pharaoh’s myths and their efforts of mummification in search of after life, our modern rituals are no less retard, as antiquated, as old and as archaic.

I like the God of singularity!

Singularity is when we don't know what to do - where our understanding of the nature breaks down. The whole Universe is spinning around super massive black holes. A black hole around which our Galaxy revolves is 100 times the mass of our Galaxy. Our whole Galaxy revolves around one of these black holes. These black holes like our Sun in the solar system are at the centre of our Milky Way. Singularity is astronomically heavy and infinitesimally small. We need to find Quantum Gravity.

General Relativity deals with very large and Quantum mechanics with very small . Atoms and Universe are explained by Quantum mechanics and General Relativity respectively. Laws that govern nature are still remained to be deciphered, nature is smarter than we are, how quantum mechanics and gravity can live together we just don't understand still. Quantum mechanics and General Relativity are quite incompatible. At the centre of black hole and beginning of the time itself lies singularity. The whole universe is product of singularity which is only possible at the beginning of the time and inside the black hole.

If we solve the singularity of the centre of the black hole we will solve the mystery of the beginning of time. Are we human smart enough to find Grand Unified Theory.