Alternate Theory Of Creation A theory about the birth of the universe

[amrit_i 0]

Yes, the Big Bang is a theory of the universe's birth, but i notice that no one hardly mentions other theories. I dont know many others myself but I know the Vedic cosmology pretty well and this is what i will share here, my request that ppl with alternate theories of creation (apart from Biblical which is far too often said) please share them.Amrit

[Jeigh1405241495 0]

Unless I missed something you didn't actually explain the Vedic cosmology thing... since I've never heard of it it could be an interesting read (I know my own beliefs, but I enjoy reading about other peoples theories)

[amrit_i 0]

sorry sorry my mistake. yes i intend this to be a discussion and i just started it, i have much to say abt vedic cosmology which cannot be summed up in just one post.one of the basic premises abt vedic cosmology is that the universe is eternal, it was never created and will never be destroyed, how that works is a long explanation i shall give in the coming posts. but anyways this eternal universe exists due to a balance of 3 states called the 3 Gunas ( 'u' pronounced as 'u' in ubermenschen and 'a' as 'o' in son):Rajas: action, activitySamat: lightTatva: inaction, idlenessThe equilibrium of these 3 states maintain Existence. When one state exists more than the other 2 a different form of matter or consciousness is created. Guna in the vedic language of Sanskrit means a string, or strand. I have not found anything to back this up but im developin my own theory of connection between this meaning of Guna and the nascent String Theory. Vedic cosmology says that the universe is maintained by a balance of 3 strings where if one string is more a different matter or consciousness is produced and String Theory says that the most fundamental particle is 2 strings vibrating in different frequencies to produce different dimensions and sorts of matter. I find this similiarity highly intriguing and seek to find more. Any opinions are highly welcome.Ofcourse there is more to Vedic cosmology and what happens as a result of the balances of these 3 strings i shall explain in the coming posts as the complete overview of our cosmology is quite long.One thing i would like to mention is that vedic cosmology is completely independent of the hindu and vedic religions. One can explain this philosophy without ever mentioning hindu Gods and i shall try to do the same to as to keep religion out of this discussion at least on my part.

[iGuest 3]

I am seriously confused. Because, no-one can be ever sure that "that the universe is eternal, it was never created and will never be destroyed" Only God knows, (referring to Judaism, Christianity, Islam's God ...) what was before us, and what will be after us. I don't think that it can be ever true that the universe was never created. If it wasn't created, then how is it already there? We, as humans, can only provide explanations. But we cannot give solid facts as to how the universe was created and how it would be destroyed. If the sources of the answers to my questions exists in Hindu Scriptures, please inform me, because I would like to learn more about Vedic Cosmology.

[amrit_i 0]

Well, not that this should matter but i prefer we give the name Vedic Scriptures and not Hindu scriptures because the very name 'Hindu' was coined by the Greeks and Arabs and is not a name existing newhere within Vedism.

 

Coming to the issue at hand, the Vedics hold the belief that this is not the only universe in existence, there are infinite existing presently, were infinite existing before, and infinite will exist in the future. The possibility of infinite universes is incidentally emerging out of quantum physics and einsteinian philosophy too.

 

Moreover, one can say that there universe cannot be eternal as 'God' must have created it, someone must have created it! But then who created God, an often asked question i admit.

 

Now, first let me give the allegory of a bacteria that lives for 10 seconds and a civilisation that lives for 10000 years. Can the bacteria even begin to fathom the time the civilisation lives for? Is not the civilisation immortal and eternal for the bacteria? mere semantics you might say.

 

Take mankind as the bacteria now. There exists the Primordial Being (call it God, Allah, or Vishnu, whatever pleases you) which is primordial not because it was created first, but because it just was there before us. This Primordial Being is the universes and it manifests itself as the 3 gunas i mentioned, as humans, as stars, as protons and electrons. In short this Being is Everything; That Which There Is.

 

Everything comes from the Being and shall go back to the Being. now 20^12 human years is the time this Primordial Being takes to blink an eyelid (this is an approximate of a calculated number). Modern physics proves that it is highly possible in the gravitational and time-dilating world for beings to exist that live at a time scale entirely faster or slower than us. To us they may take a second to do wat takes us days but to them everything goes as normal.

 

The time taken to blink an eyelid is called a Nimesh and the Primordial Being lives for a 100 years. So 20^12 Human years is 1 Nimesh for the Primordial Being. If you can calculate how many human years the Being lives for, then you might have decoded Vedism, but there is a catch: Vedism believes that time and life is a circle, a cycle. Before this age of humanity there was another and there will be one after.

 

Similiarly before this Primordial Being there was another and there will be either. If i give u a circle can u tell me where it starts? If i draw a circle before your eyes you might tell me where I started the circle from but this circle of existence was not drawn by us or in front of our eyes, hence we cannot determine where it started from or where it shall end. That the galaxies are forever expanding might be proof of Big Bang but Jain philosophies says that even the universe is still under construction. A tenet of String Theory says that universes are being constructed even now! One might take birth right under your legs but it would not affect our space and time.

 

It is by this philosophy that Vedism says that the universe is eternal and immortal. It is backed by 2 basic laws of physics of conservation of energy and mass; neither can be created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. Thus this universe was never created, it came out of a previous one, the previous one came out of its predecessor and we go on without reaching an end point.

 

This concept is totally different and new to you i understand and i felt equally bewildered and confused when i heard it for the first time but i see the sense in it now and have come to believe it, fuelled by the amount of scientific laws and findings that back it or are similiar to it atleast.

 

More on vedic cosmology coming in further posts. In the meantime does anyone know of other theories apart from this and the Big Bang and the 6 days of creation ones?

 

Only God knows, (referring to Judaism, Christianity, Islam's God ...) what was before us, and what will be after us. 

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Truly, only God can know, but Vedism believes that our real Self is our soul, the physical body is only a vehicle for the driver. This soul or Real Self is a part of that Primordial Being, that Divine, and hence if a human can attain the recognition of his Real Self and free himself from the recognisation of the Self as the physical body, he becomes one with the Divine and witnesses the Ultimate Reality that is known to 'God'. This viewing of Ultimate Reality is what happened to Buddha when he attained Nirvana. Only God can know but since 'I and my Father are One' I can know what my father knows by practicing the told methods.

 

small correction, i mentioned the 3 Gunas as rajas, samat, and tatva but they are rajas, sattwa, and tamas. sorry

[Moody 0]

Oh my God (weird, I have none)! When I read this, I hope the Big Bang theory is correct. And I think it is. And only God knows... unless God knows nothing for he does not exist. And I believe he doesn't, so Big Bang is really appealing to me.

[DigitalDingo 0]

Another very attractive (to me!) theory about the creation of our universe is actually quite new. As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t have a “real name”.

 

I don’t think of the universe as an infinite universe – I believe it ends somewhere. My favourite creation theory says that the universe is one out of many “universe bubbles”. Try to imagine an empty black (maybe infinite) space. Now, imagine thousands, millions, maybe even billions of ball-shaped bubbles – each is an independent universe.

 

There has got to be something between these “bubbles” – tachyons are a considered suggestion. Tachyons are hypothetical particles which travel faster than light. They can do this because of their mass being less than zero!

 

These bubbles are surrounded by a sort of sphere making them able to keep their “own” galaxies, stars, etc. inside them.

Now, occasionally some of these bubbles will bump into each other – a collision which would produce an extreme amount of energy. A little calculation shows that this collision would be powerful enough to produce a “big bang”. Only this big bang wouldn’t start with a small particle but with the two bubble shell smashing into each other.

 

As I said, this is my favourite explanation also because it explains where background radiation from the big bang, we can measure today, comes from. Too many theories can’t explain the background radiation.

 

Sorry, I made a mistake about the tachyons. It is the mass squared that is less than zero (m^2 < 0).

Now, this would seem rather odd to us who have just a little mathematical understanding, but it has something to do with irrational numbers – which haven’t been a part of my education yet so I’ll let somebody else explain them!

 

As I said these particles are hypothetical, i.e. they have never been measured. There are some measurements that could indicate that they exist, but so far no proof has been seen. But if they are discovered they could explain why the universe is expanding faster and faster instead of slower and slower.

 

I found this site helpful if you want to find out more about tachyons.

[madcrow 0]

My own personal theory mainly follows the scientific model but includes some elements of my Christian faith. I believe, for example, that God caused the big bang and that God also designed the basic process of evolution.

[ChicGhic 0]

That Vedic theory is interesting.Although I don't really believe in any of the theories, i also don't NOT believe ... Basically I don't know, I'm not going to believe something until I can say without reasonable doubt that it's true, same goes for the other way, I can't discredit a theory unless i know for a fact it's untrue, so I am always open to listening to new theories and ideas.As for the big bang theory, i can't comprehend creating something from nothing, I can't accept the fact there there was ever "nothing", the existence of nothing is actually a very hard and complex to visulize absolute nothingness. I understand principals of chemistry and atomic structures, but can't grasp how they came about out of nothing.Then that the universe was already here... well, there we go for another mind trip. For something to be eternal means that it has no end, and no beginning.. Wow. For something to continually exist in both ways in our rationale of time is perplexing to say the least.Anyways, I'm going to stop thinking about it, or I'll probably end up going insane.

[Moody 0]

When I was young, I wanted to be a priest. Of course it was obvious that God created the world, allthough I didn't understand how he would have done that. And I found the fact that he rested the seventh day nonsense. What if man would have decided that a week would have eight days, how would that be? Then we'd rest on the 7th, a week later on the 6th and a week later on the 5th day of the week.Anyhow, later I thought the Big Bang was caused by God. I thought the six days in the Bible were actually billions of years. Nice theory.But now, I think the Big Bang was a mysterious bang (a big one) that created everything. And we created God and how he created the world. It makes sense, because when we knew nothing about thunder and lightening, Wodan was the dude that made that happen. So when we didn't understand where Earth came from, we invented a Creator. Actually, dozens of creators. When people found out about lightening and stuff, they stopped believing in Wodan. Let's hope that we find out about the Big Bang soon...

[qwijibow 0]

ne of the basic premises abt vedic cosmology is that the universe is eternal, it was never created and will never be destroyed,

then how do you explain the fact that the universe is expanding ?
yesterday the universe was smaller than it is today.
last week it was smaller still
last year smaller still
millenia smaller still.
600,000,000,000 years ago smaller still...

so at some point in time, it must have been a point, or non existant ?

[mike286 0]

hmm I like the idea of god creating the big bang and designing everything in such a way as to endup exactly like (he/she/it???) wanted, it ties everything together. Having said that though i dont believe or disbelieve in god and as for the universe expanding how do we KNOW that it is?? Im not saying it isn't just would like some evidence....

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

Since mankind hasn't been in the Universe for a long time and I do think the Big Bang does exist but when we also question about aliens, what if a species created a spark of Hydrogen to create a universe and they are observing us as test subjects. You would never know. This God figure is in my theory created by mankind to be the reason to create the universe since there's nothing for them to support the "truth". According to Christians, they say that someone like me can't seek the truth and come up with millions of theory. Which this is false. It is religion that humans created and not religion created us. The artificial figure of God is just a reassurance to fill the void of knowledge. It just a temporary filler until the final block has been discovered.Yet, if there is God, then my theories are automatically void.xboxrulz

[saga 0]

That Vedic theory is interesting in some ways. But of all the theory out there the most convincing is the big bang. What makes it the most convincing is it is not inclined to any religion and it is an objective way of understand our universe. Knowing that the galaxy are moving away from each other, of course it is scientific if one would say that at some point all galaxy are clustered together, thus there must be a big bang that cause this.The interesting part of the the vedict theory is its idea of the universe being eternal. Surely, universe is eternal. Matter can not be destroyed or be created. It might be hard for us to comprehend the idea becuase we live in a world were nothing last forever, and if universe were a concious being it would be a very lonely and sad being we wouldnt want that :DThe part that didnt interest me about the Vedict theory is when it tried to sanctify man. It tried to give mans life a meaning when in reality there is none. Trying to make man immortal, when man is not. But the matter that composed man is immortal. Not man. It tried to put man in the center of the universe, when man and its planet is just another planet in our unfatomable universe. We couldnt just accept the fact that we are just another product of the complex bonding of matters that already exist. We always try to make ourself important or devine. Thus we created God, souls, heaven and hell. Man cannot accept the fact that when he dies, its the end. There is no afterlife knor any kind of preservation of its being, we all will always go back to the simplest form which is matter. OUr consciosnes (whats the spelling by the way ) were the product of electrical impulses. Man is a sophisticated computer, but however sophisticated he is, when he dies, he is nothing. Does not exist and will never exist again. And that is not acceptable to us for we know that the most beautiful thing is living and there is nothing after it.well, all those things I wrote above are nonsense

[saga 0]

You would never know. This God figure is in my theory created by mankind to be the reason to create the universe since there's nothing for them to support the "truth". According to Christians, they say that someone like me can't seek the truth and come up with millions of theory. Which this is false. It is religion that humans created and not religion created us. The artificial figure of God is just a reassurance to fill the void of knowledge. It just a temporary filler until the final block has been discovered.

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I agree with you. Man in his desperate moments in seeking for the truth created devine being to answer all his questions. Religion is jus the expression of man's faith to a devine being, nothing more nothing less. We always wanted to know what is the begining. How did everything came to be. But this is an endless quest. Becuase if we will ever find out how the universe is created, then another question will surface that again will bother us. So, we created God, for a shortcut. Of course God as devine being is not created by someone, so all our question ends in Him. Simple yet effective. Even if we have infinity to understand the creation of all things we could not still comprehend it.