Big Bang and the Dark Side

This question on Creation remains unanswered. Scientists are still digging and searching and still coming with theories that need good grounds of proof.

Lately Science Daily issued a new article, which uncovered new research by astronomers in the Physics Department at Durham University suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the Universe may be wrong.

The research is based on observations from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite of the remnant heat from the Big Bang.

The last observation in 2001 showed that the ripples were about twice the size of the full moon or around a degree across.
This suggested the cosmos is made of 4% normal matter, 22% dark or invisible matter and 74% dark energy.

Dark Side

The new observation showed that the measurement of the size of the ripples are significantly smaller, which could imply that the dark matter and dark energy are not present after all.

In astronomy  and cosmology, dark matter is matter that is inferred to exist from gravitational effects on visible matter and background radiation, but is undetectable by emitted or scattered  electromagnetic radiation. Its existence was hypothesized to account for discrepancies between measurements of the mass of galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the entire universe made through dynamical and general relativistic means, and measurements based on the mass of the visible "luminous" matter these objects contain: stars and the gas and dust of the interstellar and intergalactic  media

Dark Matter

Dark matter is crucial to the Big Bang  model of cosmology as a component which corresponds directly to measurements of the parameters associated with Friedmann cosmology solutions to general relativity.

Scientists send beams of particles racing through underground tunnels in hunt for invisible material that makes up 84 per cent of universe's matter and binds galaxies 

 The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher has been restarted after an upgrade that could see it making scientific history for a second time.

Hadron Collider

Scientists plan to send two beams of high-energy particles racing through the Large Hadron Collider's 16.7 miles (27 kilometres) of circular underground tunnels after the project took a major step forward on Easter Sunday morning.

Two years ago, the team operating the £3.74 billion machine straddling the Swiss-French border astounded the world with the discovery of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle that gives other particles mass.

Now they have their sights set on an even more exotic trophy - dark matter, the invisible, undetectable material that makes up 84 per cent of matter in the universe and binds galaxies together yet whose nature is unknown. 

Energy can be converted into mass in accordance with Albert Einstein's famous equation E (energy) = M (mass) times C (the speed of light) squared. The more energy available, the more massive the particles that can be created. 

 The search for dark matter involves stepping outside the Standard Model, the all-encompassing theory that describes the particles and forces of nature that has stood firm for the past 50 years.

A "new physics" model of the universe called super-symmetry predicts that every known particle has a more massive partner - and one of these elusive super-symmetry particles might be the source of dark matter.

At a Cern briefing in Geneva last month, British scientist Professor David Charlton, from the University of Birmingham, who heads the Atlas detector team, said: "We're heading for unexplored territory. It's going to be a new era for science." 

Dark energy is or was the most popular way to explain recent observations and experiments that the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate.

Space

Galaxies show signs of being composed largely of a roughly spherically symmetric, centrally concentrated halo of dark matter with the visible matter concentrated in a disc at the center.

Low surface brightness dwarf galaxies are important sources of information for studying dark matter, as they have an uncommonly low ratio of visible matter to dark matter, and have few bright stars at the center which would otherwise impair observations of the rotation curve of outlying stars.

Gravitational lensing observations of galaxy clusters allow direct estimates of the gravitational mass based on its effect on light from background galaxies.

What does this mean?

If dark energy exists, then it ultimately causes the expansion of the Universe to accelerate, and plays a central role in th structure formation and galaxy evolution.

If it does not exist, then the structure formation and galaxy evolution must have been made by another method or system Or God.....

So far there is no known proved method or system that has arranged the cosmos.
All what we have are theories.
Even scientists are skeptical if these theories could be applied or not.
Well.... It seems the theory of God is prevailing as constant amongst all other theories.

This would leave the open possibility that the religious arguments are after all true.

Scientists believe that the acceleration of the Universe began about 5 billion years ago.
But we have learnt in religion and Myth that time has no essence in creation, as it has no essence in other dimensions or other worlds...

Would it be possible that the 5 billion years scientists are talking about is in reality only 6000 years.. Adam Age?

It seems now all possibilities are wide open.

Will we know the truth?.... Who knows

Sami Cherkaoui

Creation and Reincarnation

Since we are speaking about Creation of one  life or various different lives or worlds or dimensions, and trying to link the theories of religion, myth and science...

And also since we are talking about simulated reality, dreams, Deja Vu and cloning...

We must not forget a very serious theory, which many cultures have believed in and submit certain kind of stories to prove it. Reincarnation....

What is it and how it was originated...
And how we can relate it scientifically or religiously..

When we try to dig in this subject, we find that reincarnation or the concept of rebirth, was followed major Indian cultures, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhist...
The idea was also fundamental to some Greek Philosophers and religions, Druidism and some societies around the world such as Siberia, West Africa, North America and Australia.

Some sects within Judaism, Christianity and Islam such as Hassidim and Cathars believe in some aspects of Reincarnation.

Some Islamic researchers, refer certain Aya(s) in the Qur'an as a kind of reincarnation. When God talks about " Dying twice and living twice"... or " folding the skies and start again the creation"...
Other argues that this might refer to different lives and not necessarily reincarnation.
Some claim that when God says "There is not an animal (that lives) on the earth, nor a being that flies on its wings, but (forms part of) communities like you", it is definitely meant that they have all, animals, birds and humans processed the concept of transmigration of soul into flesh.. since they are all considered as same communities.

Many Christians regard Jesus as a divine incarnation and they and many Muslims believe he and some prophets may incarnate again.

Shi'a Muslim sects also regard their founders as in some special sense divine incarnations

The early Christian sect "Ebionites" taught that the Holy Spirit had come as Adam and later reincarnated as Jesus. Other Jewish Christian groups such as the  Elkasaites and Nazarites also believed this. The Clementine Homilies, an early Christian document, also taught many incarnations of Jesus. The Samaritans believed that Adam had reincarnated as Seth, then Noah, Abraham, and even Moses.

Reincarnation has always been a part of Jewish and Christian history. In fact, orthodox Judaism still teaches reincarnation.

The true meaning of reincarnation is "entering the flesh again" and it corresponds with the English phrase "transmigration of the soul" but consequently a continuation of the soul and not the flesh.

Some philosophers like Dr. Dahesh.. believe that reincarnation is not necessary a transmigration of the soul into another flesh.. but can be a transmigration also to plants and material items such as stones, wood, steel etc... and this is because human is given several chances to purify the soul because God as he is The Merciful does not want humans to go to hell from their first sins.... He make them complete some multiple purification procedures on earth by multiple reincarnations.

The Buddhist  concept of reincarnation is that there is no eternal "soul", "spirit' or self" but only a "stream of consciousness" that links life with life.
In Buddhist tradition the process occurs across five or six realms of existence, including the human, any kind of animal and several types of supernatural being. It is said in Tibetan Buddhism that it is very rare for a person to be reborn in the immediate next life as a human.

The Egyptians believed that the soul transmigrated from body to body and this was a reason why they embalmed the body in order to preserve it so that it could journey along with ka, an animating force that was believed to be counterpart of the body, which would accompany it in the next world or life.

Thomas Sawyer said that one of the purposes of the life review is to make an informed choice between remaining in spirit and returning to flesh. Should we choose to merge completely with the light of God, we will never again be able to choose, on our own decision, to return to physical life. The decision to merge in the light is the best decision

Near-death experiences prove this misconception to be just that - a misconception. This is because time as we know it does not exist in the spirit world. A person can literally spend an "eternity" in the spirit realms, if they wish to do so, and have the freedom to decide if they want to reincarnate or not. The ultimate goal of reincarnation is to learn enough lessons from Earth lives that reincarnation is no longer necessary.

According to Ian Stevenson, the memories normally occur between the ages of three and seven years then fade shortly afterwords; he compared the memories with reports of people known to the deceased, attempting to do so before any contact between the child and the deceased's family had occurred, and searched for dis confirming evidence that could provide alternative explanations for the reports aside from reincarnation.
Stevenson believed that the best evidence for reincarnation was the existence of birth marks and deformities on children when they occurred at the location of fatal wounds in the deceased, but also claimed unusual behaviors such as phobias for the thing that killed the deceased, and in some cases the mother having a dream in which the deceased announces their intention to reincarnate in the child, were also evidence of reincarnation.

No matter what the truth is....
For sure there is a cycle of life which starts and ends...
This cycle could be the same cycle of nature..Seasons
If springs starts the green.... the other seasons follow till the green die.
Then spring comes again.

Would life restarts... how and when?

Sami Cherkaoui

Creation and the Simulated Reality

I received few comments on the last subject of History in Science, Mythology and Religion.

Mainly about Deja Vu.

About Deja Vu.
Some said that we are living another life in our dreams.
Well the actual theory is somehow different.
Actually quite the opposite.
We live a dream when we wake up. This is the theory !
This is what scientists call simulated reality.
That we are living in a simulated reality.

Actually "simulation hypothesis" claims it is entirely possible and even probable that we are living in a simulated reality.

This was handled well in movies like Avatar, Matrix, Surrogates..

Science argue that it is possible that in a virtual people simulation one cannot have a real body in the external reality of the physical world
They can move from entity to entity by the power of mind..

Another way is cloning ... by taking a sample of its virtual DNA and create a real-world
vis-a-vis from that model.(Typical Twin)

Well this Typical Twin is what parallel world or dimension is all about.
And it is the very matter that religion, mythology and even magic talk about.

We find the Typical Twin in most of their stories under different names..
But we can go back to this subject later.

Now let us go to the sequence we talked about.
What about creation?

If science talks about Big Bang.
Myth and Religion are not that far away..

The difference is in timing..

Let us see how..by starting with Mythology

In any society, the stories of creation are usually regarded as a profound truth.
They are commonly considered cosmological myths--that is they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness.
They are also considered sacred accounts, and can be found in nearly all known religious traditions.

They are all stories with a plot and characters who are either deities, human like figures or animals who often speak and transform easily.
They are set in a dim and nonspecific past.

Common motifs  include the fractionation of the things of the world from a primordial chaos; the separation of the mother and father gods; and land emerging from an infinite and timeless ocean.

Different societies all over the world had different myths, even different in the same continent.

The Bakuba's in Africa for instance says that there was nothing but darkness and water controlled by a giant who felt pain in the stomach on day and vomited the sun, moon and stars. Then the Sun evaporated water to cover Earth and create clouds then mountains emerged. The second vomit of the giant then came the firm Man and Woman, animals, trees, medicine etc..

This is not much different of the story of creation in Religion - six days creations started with light to reach Adam and Eve.

Buddhism  generally ignores the question regarding the origin of life. The Buddha regarding the origin of life has said "Conjecture about [the origin, etc., of] the world is an un-conjecturable that is not to be conjectured about, that would bring madness & vexation to anyone who conjectured about it.

Buddhism is less concerned with answering questions like the origin of life, and more concerned with the goal of saving oneself and other beings from suffering by attaining Nirvana (Enlightenment). However, the Kalachakra  Tantra, a scripture of Tibetan Buddhism, deals with the formation and functioning of reality. Modern day Buddhists such as the Dalai Lama don't perceive a conflict between Buddhism and science and consider they are complementary means of understanding the world around us.

Hindus believe that the cycle of creation, preservation, and destruction has no beginning, Anadi. Another reason for this could also be the Hindu concept of cyclic time, such as yugas, or days of Brahma. A Day of Brahma lasts 4.32 billion years and the night of Brahma also lasts for 4.32 billion years. Days and nights follow in cycles (unlike the concept of linear time in many other religions). In fact, time is represented as Kālá Chakra, the wheel of time.

That would be similar in a way to the count of time in the Religious Books.

While  there were several different creation myths in Egypt Mythology, they all shared common elements: an infinite, lifeless ocean which preceded the creation, and a pyramidal mound of land which was the first thing to emerge from this ocean.

To some degree these myths represent competing theologies, but they can also be seen as representing different aspects of the process of creation. The convergence of the Ogdoad represented the transformation of the lifeless primordial chaos into the orderly, life-bearing world; the Ennead myth demonstrated how the world's original, embryonic form (Atum) evolved into the multiplicity of elements it later contained. Amun was the ultimate cause of creation, who first developed a concept of what the world would be like, and Ptah was the power of creative speech, by which that initial vision was made reality, and which caused the growth of Atum.

The Qur'an states that God created the world and the cosmos in six days process, made all the creatures that walk, swim, crawl, and fly on the face of the earth from water.
Made the angels, and the sun, moon and the stars to dwell in the universe.
Poured down the rain in torrents, and broke up the soil to bring forth corn, grapes and other vegetation; olive and palm, fruit trees and grass.
Molded clay, earth, sand and water into a model of a man and breathed life and power into it, and it immediately sprang to life. And this first man was called Adam. God took Adam to live in Paradise. God taught Adam the names of all the creatures, and then commanded all the angels to bow down before Adam.

In the Judeo-Christian traditions, God creates the different features of the world over a series of six days. The separates the waters, sky and dry land, and fills the earth with vegetation.
Then puts lights in the sky to separate day from night to mark the seasons.
On the fifth day, God creates sea creatures and birds of every kind and commands them to multiply their numbers.
On the sixth day, God's creates land creatures of every kind. Man and woman are created last, after the entire world is prepared for them; they are created in the "image" of God,

So, where they differ?
They only differ in data.
They all do not have timing.

Science do not have as well... only guesses.

Why?

May be we have to look at this from a different angle.
Why this whole creation happened in the first place?
Did it happen at one point of time or different points of time?
Did it happen to one world (ours) or multiple worlds that we do not know?
Is there any Inter-Relation with other worlds/dimensions?

Let us seek answers.

Sami Cherkaoui

History in Science, Myth and Religion.

Not only History, but may be Future also... 

Why?

I am not a scientist, nor a historian.
I  am in love with History, Mythological and Religious stories
I also love to discuss these subjects.

Let us take a deep breath, sit back, calm down, open our minds and try to figure out something .....anything about this life, universe, skies, earth, seas, mountains, creation, humans, animals, plants....

I know it is a lot to think about... but it is all linked one to another.

So it is not possible to think about one issue without linking it to another.

To simplify, We may have to take this in sequence; first the creation, universe, skies, earth etc...

However, and because we have to dig into millions of years of history... our sources are limited to three... Science, Myth and Religion.

As these three factors appear to be absolute conflicts, it seems they share the same Intel, but differ in data and performance.

Let us see how.

If we want to tackle the creation, we see that Science, Myth and Religion all agree that at a certain point of time there was a creation.
Then they all have their logic about when and how.

Science speak about Big Bang. A big explosion that created the universe, its planets and all other features of life.

Myth talks about different Gods each came from different parts of the sky and created its related nature on earth. Light, Darkness, Seas, Mountains, Rivers, Trees etc...

Religion talks about one God who decided at one certain time to create the universe with all its features as we see them now, skies, earth, planets, creatures etc..

However all these 3 sources seem inter-related or dependent on one another.

The Big Bang theory relies on two main assumptions: the universality of physical laws, and the Cosmological Principle.

 A graphic scheme of an artist's concept illustrating the expansion of a portion of a flat Universe.

Albeit it is  a scientific theory which addresses the origins of reality, it has always carried theological and philosophical implications.

Several cosmologists complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory.

The relationship between religion and myth come in different shapes and meanings, depending on the kind of the story and what religion has tackled this story or a similar one.

Religious groups react to science with respect to its implications for their respective religious cosmologies. 

Some accept the scientific evidence as is, while others seek to reconcile the Big Bang dor example with their religious tenets, and others completely reject or ignore the evidence for the Big Bang theory.

So, from where shall we begin ?

Not yet.

May be we have to complicate matters more, and talk also about our world/universe and the alternative world(s)/universe(s).

Recent studies are seriously discussing the issue of multiverse (or meta-universe, metaverse) as a non-discovered-yet fact.

They talk about a set of multiple possible universes including ours, that together comprise everything that physically exists: the entirety of space and time, all forms of matter, energy, momentum and the physical laws and constants that govern them. 

The various universes within the multiverse are sometimes called parallel universes.

Well then, if we have to talk about parallel or alternative universes, may be we have to talk as well about Deja Vu.!

Deja Vu or "already seen"; also called par-amnesia, from Greek meaning near, against, contrary to memory or promnesia. 

It is the experience of feeling sure that one has witnessed or experienced a new situation that somehow somewhere sometime previously happened. 

This is accompanied by a compelling sense of familiarity, and also a sense of "eeriness," "strangeness," "weirdness," or what Sigmund Freud calls "the uncanny.

The "previous" experience is most frequently attributed to a dream, although in some cases there is a firm sense that the experience has genuinely happened in the past.

But why we have to include this Deja Vu, in our discussions of history, universe, myth and religion?
When Deja Vu is usually discussed as a fiction subject or mental disorder?
True.....

However lately there are attempts to categorize it scientifically as a fringe science which may pave a way to the discoveries of alternative worlds or universes if they are not already discovered.

Also, this subject is not far form the mythical and religious stories.
It is even hinted in all religious books, and it is worth trying to unbreak the different "codes" or "ciphers" related to paranormal issues or at least find out why they were put and what they refer to..

Many issues to tackle....

Many Parables to Arable

Sami Cherkaoui

Arable Parable

Any story whether it is factual or fictional has roots of reasons and meant to mean something. Therefore every Parable can be Arable.

The flood of daily news is so intense and do not take any rest. So I chose to pause from time to time and dig in some stories and try to see their roots and aims.
My feeling is that we are being used by so many powers. Those Powers are the sources and they want us to understand what they want and not what we want.
And they have all the means and powers to do this. Sometimes by using our own media and, sometimes by using some of us, and most of the time by using the science which they gave it to us, and make us discover what they want us to discover.

However, we are still at loss to understand the real meaning of what is happening around us, and that is because of so many interference, or confusion or dilliusion.

I believe we are all one people - actually the same people. Humans
There is one country - Earth
There is one God
There is one creation
There is one life
There is one nature

Religions are ways of understanding God and should not be used as a political issue.
And everything else is a parable.
So let us see how a parable can be arable.

Sami Cherkaoui