In the concluding theory of everything, everyone would know why the universe exists and know the mind of god, Stephen W. Hawking said in his 1996 book, “The Illustrated Theory of Everything.”
The majestic spiral, one of the millions of galaxies in the universe discovered in 1995 with the Hubble Space Telescope is about 60 million light years away from Earth. A light year is a measure of distance, not time. It would take 60 years of travelling at the speed of light to get to the majestic spiral, the galaxy known as NGC 4414. The speed of light incidentally is a 186,000 miles per second. “The Illustrated Theory of Everything” has fascinated me with its awesome pictures and intriguing facts about the universe.
Majestic spiral, NGC 4414Theories are always being changed to account for new observations. With science going in its current direction we will all be able to have some understanding of the laws that govern the universe which is responsible for our existence Hawking said.
I lost faith in the Bible decades ago and the more I read, the more I embrace the quest for knowledge, fantasy and fascination. For thousands of years, the Catholic Church claimed that Earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun and all the other planets revolved around it. Finally, in the 1980s, the Catholic Church officials admitted they were wrong, and that science had indeed proven them wrong. The Earth and all the planets in our solar system revolve around the sun, and not the other way around. Also, our universe is not in the center of creation, which was once thought.
In 1924, Edwin Hubble discovered ours is not the only universe in the galaxy. This book claims that there are 1,000s of millions of solar systems much like ours. Life outside of Earth? Nothing proven of course, but Hawking suggested that perhaps entities from another planet far from our solar system are already here, but maybe they are too small to be seen or heard.
A new cluster of stars being formed, 13 million light years from Earth, NGC 4214Thousands of years before this book, the Hindus speculated that the Earth may have gone through many ice ages and floods. In other words, like the Hindu’s, Hawking also said the Earth may have been fully formed and destroyed over and over.
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? Is the unified theory so compelling, that it announces its own existence or does it need a creator? Does the creator have any effect on the universe other then being responsible for its existence, and who created him?
Mark Izzy Schurr
