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Alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei – german song meaning : Everything have an end, just the sausage have two.


A short (?) Forewor😛
Pervious article generate (thank you all) some answers and debate, even an another article of “Ruler of The New World”, a very comprehensive presentation of the scientific concept of Big Bang – Inflationary theory of the Universe, meaning physics..
In the comments to this mentioned article, I noticed one, of “Bholenath”, saying:
“Physics seems so easy when one tries to explain it though philosophy/plain English but the devil is in the equations 😃”
This one, related to the comment of NEEL in my previous article:
“Everything in this world is "true" if it is presented in "Material form" even "god". As such for any concept to be concetrized is the natural conclusion of a beginging and a end and the cycle begins again in a subtle way that we wouldnt know the begining and end is the same just like TIME. today is the past that passed by, future is the moment that is NOW. Past is so History. Time is a capsule that behold all the three in a single moment.”
Remained me the difference between a philosophical and a physical approach of the … “Facts”.
While a philosopher will only admit as TRUE what he/she can sense, a physician (and engineer, I presume)will admit as TRUE facts that could be measured by tools, different by human senses / perceptions.
(this attitude lead eventually to a philosophical system, The presentism – considering that only the present exist, past and future are imagination)
Also, in the last article I was claiming to know one concept / system / philosophy in which the world is not to disappear, to cease to exist, one day?



Regarding religious concept about this story of beginning and end, I do recommend the presentation from the site that „ultimatewinner“ suggested in he’s comments in my last article. Sure, many others could be added but this is a good start.

Besides that, humans try to imagine even an ... natural, logical, rational and, most of all, comprehensible way to represent and understand the world, our existence and it’s goal, the inexorable end of our life’s, etc.
Minds of our ancient ancestors where focused to answer all the above questions, in all the world, no matter the language they speak or the colour of them skin, because those are the „core“ questions of every human existence.
However, I will spare you from the talk about the history of those ancient concepts.

Cause and Effect
Since our first experiments on this world / life, we learn that everything that is / show an effect must have a cause. If we fell the hot water with our hands, something must have boiled it, and so on.
This concept get various representation on humans concepts, not to talk about anything else than Karma to make an example, but it was boosted since the scientific method became „popular“.
In Europe that happen with Descartes (Dubito, ergo coggito. Coggito, ergo sum. – I doubt, [and] therefore I think / know. I know, [and] therefore I exist) who applied to philosophy the demonstrative method from mathematics / geometry (hypothesis -> demonstration -> conclusion).
Further, in all science, this principle of cause – effect, was supposed as true, until one ... cat, put it to the test.
Must say that even the truthfulness of a scientifically concept is proven by the „black swan“ meaning that if an exception could not be proven, to a natural law, then that law is proven to be correct.
Anyhow, when the above mentioned cat entered the scene, things change a lot. The cat was of Mr. Schroedinger, a famous Austrian (you will see that there where others too 😃 ).

The scenario presents a cat that may be simultaneously both alive and dead, a state known as a quantum superposition, as a result of being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur.
Considering that, the cause is doubted itself, because it may, or may not occur and, that for the effect is uncertain.
Little before this experiment, another Austrian stated, in he’s famous Tractatus that : „ The world is everything that is the case.. A plain truth, you would say, and he had big success with it (and the rest of them).
Those ideas lead to the conceptual Phenomenalism , that claim the objects that we could not directly perceive (are in our back, for example) simply cease to exist (for us, at least).
I retain just that there are cases when cause-effect did not work very well (not to talk about the nature of light, particle or wave, as Heisenberg told us).

Concepts
As I told you, “Ruler of The New World” had already very well explained the theory of Big Bang and the Inflationary theory of the Universe. Other scientifically theories are related to “strings” (meaning that world is supposed to contain many Universes), freezing theory and such. All those developed in the rush of scientists to discover the “sacred Grail of science”, the unification equation, that one that could explain, alone, all the four forces we know in the Universe.
Anyhow, all of them consider the existence of a primordial cause of this world and, entering this game, an eventual end of it.

Spirit and Matter
This debate, regarding the very existence of the Spirit in this world, and he’s meaning is, probably, as old as humanity. Those who “believe only what they could see or sense” do not want to admit the existence of the spirit. On the other hand, those who admit the existence of spirit tend to became religious and … believers, meaning they take as statement the existence of spirit, beyond any discussion and need no rational argument that for.
Still, they were few approaches that tried to conciliate them. Still, I will ignore them, because, as I see now, they are childish.
Still, in 7 th century BC (the time when Thales formulate he’s theorems and Pythagoras created a numerology in Greece), Kapila wrote a book, named Samkhyakarika . This darsana is not a religion, nor imply one, but claim that world is made by two different realms. ( I mentioned Pythagoras because Samkhya, in Sanskrit, mean “number” ).
The realm of spirit include elevated ones, like gods, but humans too, giving them a special place, because only humans (or spirits in human shape) could evolve.
The realm of nature is the reality we experience / know in our life’s but, they say, all our tribulations are only in the benefit, to improve / enhance the experiences / knowledge of the spirit within us.
Weird part is that accepting those two realms, we have to accept that some things could not be explained by natural laws, because are not from here (not of the nature).
In the words of Vivekananda, the short explanation of this is:
“What we call matter in modern times was called … bhutas, the external elements. There is one element which according to them, is eternal. Every other element is produced out of this one. It is called akasha. Along with this element, there is the primal energy called prana. Prana and akasha combine and recombine to form the elements out of them. The akasha acted upon by the repeated blows of prana produces vayu, or vibrations, giving rise to heat, tejas. Then, this heat ends in liquefaction, apah.
All that we know in the form of motion, vibration or thought is a modification of the prana, and everything that we know in the shape of matter is a modification of akasha. You have never seen force without matter and matter without force. Both are gross manifestations of the superfine prana and akasha.
Prana, in English, is called, the vital force or the life force; but you must not restrict it to the life of human beings. At the same time, you must not identify it with the Atman. … Creation cannot have either a beginning or an end; it is an eternal ongoing.”
For those loving physical explanation, this analogy with thermodynamics will be food for the mind, I like to believe. Just need to translate (understand) those Sanskrit terms 😃, assimilate them with physical concepts (Vivekananda helps a little calling some heat and so on) and the theory is near.

The weird of no Beginning nor End
The lack of religious belief and the distinction of those two realms lead to an unparalleled weirdness in the history of humankind thinking, the lack of beginning and end of the world.
This darsana consider that world and life exist from minus infinite to plus infinite on a time scale.
That because time, in this darsana, is a dimension that could be … travelled, like length or height and, this vibhutti (power) came from the comprehension of the … lack of time, between two minimum sized parts of time (milliseconds or such).
Bottom line, the human became complete (according to this darsana) when he/she fully understand the … nothingness of the world (the void between matter constituents, dimensions, etc).
So, when we not only understand, nor believe, but … be (the process to this is very interesting and … initiatic, I would say, because nature do not reveal hers secrets if you are not prepared to apprehend them) … the nothingness we will understand that there is no beginning nor end.

I will end this with a quote from Stephen Hawking:
“The idea that space and time may form a closed surface without boundary also has profound implications for the role of God in the affairs of the universe. With the success of scientific theories in describing events, most people have come to believe that God allows the universe to evolve according to a set of laws and does not intervene in the universe to break these laws.
However, the laws do not tell us what the universe should have looked like when it started – it would still be up to God to wind up the clockwork and choose how to start it off. So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end; it would simply be. What place, then for a creator?”





I do hope that this (short) excursion through the human perspective on it’s own reasons of existence did not bothered nor tired you.

Waiting your answers, ideas, perspective and, especially, critics, …

Meri shubhkaamanaaye aapke saath hai !