A brief history of Time—after reading……

A brief history of Time—after reading……

Stephen Hawkings has vividly drawn the chronology of the entity upon which any chronology itself is drawn..the Time. How man’s idea of the world around him changed as ‘the sun moved round the earth’. A ‘Day’ itself is a unit of time and man could have realized that until he sensed something like that!!the idea of space and time has not occurred to other species of the planet. The whole story of Evolution moves along these edges..the two spectra of dimensions.—the space and the time.
As a mariner, sometimes I wonder how the whole very concept of navigation occurred to Man for the first time. I mean I have been looking at this same sky even before I became a mariner, but did I know that those star told a direction to move to?? Hah..we mostly think that they only tell our future. But they truly had more to say than what I, or you, or anybody for that matter, thinks. Mankind, as collective, sees and hears more from those stars. And going by Mr Hawkings account they also have the story of our life and death guised in the language of their own. The gravity, the relativity everything that encompasses our daily life has its origin from these same stars. And how comfortably do we live out our lives without bothering a bit about them.
Even more mesmerizing is the story of how man’s idea about the space has clicked, re-clicked, revised, improved, interpreted, re interpreted, amended, reverted-- over the passage of Time. And the whole process is forever ongoing. The search of Time is the search of our Life and Death. It’s much beyond the making of a clock. The science amalgamates well its mother, the Philosophy, as also reinforces its fraternal relationship with the Arts.. The Time is the strongest and the most omnipotent entity, they say. And then the Philosophy joins hand with the Religion to search for the strongest, perhaps the real super power of the Universe, the Time.
We started off with a thought to measure out the passing of time by our clocks and end up searching for the formation of our whole universe, the Big bang theory and the Steady State theory of it’s formation. And I am sure somewhere in between must have come the GPS(Global Positioning System) which has changed art of navigation to a child’s play forever. The sundial, the hourglass, the past, the present, the future, the idea of time travel, the gravity, the relativity, quantum theory, the light, whole very idea of a simplified theory of Governance of this Universe, how they all get rolled up into one is best described by this book. Individually they appeared so different and unconnected to me, before. Physics, chemistry, biology, Arts, Literature, Language..that’s how we see this sphere of Science and Arts. How they form a single sphere of Philosophy is understood when the thread of Time stitches through them. And yeah, they do have the ‘space’ for Religion and God as well. For, as Einstein says, ‘God doesn’t play dice’( to contravene his own theory of Quantum Mechanics!!!), he surely may be needing space, possibly as large as this universe, to play his game.