Big Bang: Real or Imagined?
The talk about Time by Jim Al Khalili, a theoretical physicist, at the Humanity Convention in 2024 has set me into thinking in ways I had not anticipated. Physics has, until now, never been a subject that I have been able to understand A or B about, let alone its XYZs. For the first time I was actually understanding what the guy was saying in this talk. I had to listen to it carefully twice for a better understanding and insights into the subject. My inherently Vedanta oriented mind was trying to connect both sides of the insights( what I already knew and what I had just understood from Al Khalili’s talk) and make sense out of it. Al Khalili had left no room for doubt at the end of his talk that he did not intend to carry any spiritual or religious angle to his research. Which is truly a fair thing to do in order to keep scientific research true to itself. At the same time, it must be pointed out that Al Khalili used the actual experience of music during h...