Connecting God, Time and Knowledge
Disclaimer: This post may offend some of the religiously inclined. I tried to walk close to the proven science in this entire article. But consider them as assorted ideas or perspectives if it is disturbing.
Where did we come from? How did the universe come into existence? Is there a God? Well, these are some of the unpleasant questions being asked over centuries. The lack of convincing answers gave birth to bizarre theories. But wait! Have a fresh thinking: Consider yourself as the leader of an ancient community. If people ask you about the origins of universe, distant stars, moon, what can you answer? Your answers should be credible since you are the master. You need to, ultimately, rely on a supreme intelligence to explain the unexplainable. Thus, most of these questions will get a single answer in God. Next, you need to make them god-fearing to reinforce this belief. Man's one of the biological goals in life is to give birth to children and continue to exchange and diversify genes. But how did that goal get set? Did the creator put that in place? How did that intelligence evolve? Theories of evolution says that these are acquired over time through Natural Selection. But nothing is created overnight. Rather, biological and genetic features are perfected over a period of time. This is applicable to celestial objects too. From dust, galaxies were created. Planets achieved an equilibrium by constantly revolving around their suns. Many scientists now believe that Life is a natural planetary phenomenon. Means if earth like conditions are there, many planets may eventually originate life. This is one of the reasons why we are desperately trying to find planets under habitable zone of other star systems. As you see, Time made everything possible. Even if time is a unique entity of it's own, we overlook it because we are so familiar with the concept. It took millions of years to get the Sun ignited, get the earth cool down. It rained for centuries without stopping. Atmosphere started to get filled with Oxygen and Nitrogen to welcome the spark of life. Consider time as a source of knowledge; a source of order of information. The knowledge increases over a period of time. It appears that the Time itself cannot preserve this information. Instead, Time stores them in Matter -- Mass. A simple example is your DNA. It is matter with negligible mass. But it contains information to recreate highly complex life. As an another simple example, compare your knowledge to that of 10 years earlier. Time is the common factor in all this 'knowledge' acquisition events. Without time being moved, nothing happens in this world. Can you think about 'the Time' as the sole creating force behind the universe? A creator who doesn't possess any intelligence of it's own, but induces into matter. Time started when all celestial events started and would end when everything end. This may sound indigestible. We have a shape for our god(s) and these ideas may not mach with those figures. And any change in our ideas about God will trigger panic. But it seems like, if at all we need to have a creator to explain the unexplainable, there is nobody else, yet. So is there an omnipotent, omnipresent creator? Consider Black Holes, the mysterious high density cosmic objects with very strong gravitational force.
Black holes gulp in all nearby matter, electromagnetic waves including light. Consider a fictitious person A inside the black hole sending a tick signal every second to the outside world person B. Person B will never receive the signal. In scientific terms, the signal will take infinite seconds to reach B. That means A is infinite light years away from person B. These two people appear practically detached from each other because the 'time' inside the black hole is different from the 'time' outside. They are in two different worlds. That means there are several 'times' that exist in this world where there is no apparent connection between them. Interesting thing is Time doesn't have any meaning without the matter. Without matter there will not be any observable time for us to get hold of. Time is a creator who exists solely because of its creation.
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Meanwhile, in the example of time inside and outside of a black hole, the person A and B looks detached because no information flows between them and not because of different time. Time is just relative to your frame of reference.
The question of the start of time turns philosophical rather than science at time t=0.
@Karthi The fact is, nothing can be independent of time.
But you are absolutely right about t=0, at that point it is more philosophical than scientific. A time when you really consider intelligent creation as a serious theory.
But as a whole, I am open to ideas. If you don't have options, you can't choose. If it is about universe, it is better to keep them and not to really conclude anything. For example, humans tend to search for life mostly like that you see on earth. But there can be life based on other elements, with different temperature and other hostile conditions. We have recently (underground caves) discovered life in concentrated sulfuric acid. These can survive without sunlight too. They get their energy by oxidizing the chemicals found inside those caves. Isn't that unbelievable?
'Nothing can be independent of time' is an extreme generalization and should have been avoided. But the motive is the fact that any observable event will have time as a component - including knowledge acquisition events. Surprisingly, some things that are still unknown may have time as a variable in their equations. But of course, time might not dictate what happens. But simply enables things to happen with the information collected till then.
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