The Quantum World I

Part 1 : An Introduction

The Universe we live in is huge. Gigantic. The earth is just a tiny speck in in this wide world. But how tiny can things get? Which is the tiniest thing you have seen in your day to day life? A speck of dirt visible when sunlight falls through the window?

 

The specimens you have seen through the microscope in the biology lab? Believe me , these things are gigantic.

 

 

It is very fascinating to know that as things get bigger and bigger, the tend to behave as smaller things. Most of you would know that the planets move around the sun. Does anything strike you as soon as you hear this? The electrons move around the nucleus in the same manner. Each particle of an atom in the universe is moving in a path similar to the earth’s orbit. Here is a food for thought. If the electrons move around  the nucleus and this setup constitutes every single particle of the earth which in turn moves around the sun, then, what if our whole universe is just like an electron moving around something gigantic ?

 

 

Talking of electrons, for ages, people have thought that the electrons were the basic particles of a material, but what was the composition of the electrons? It seemed quite wrong to believe that something was the most basic material.

This mistake had been done earlier when tiny pieces of copper were considered to be the basic particles of everything in nature. It was later found that protons and neutrons existed. They are held together by particles known as gluons. Which are in turn made of mesons, high energy particles that are present in abundance in exosphere and ionosphere and are so reactive that they exist only for a millionth of a second and are reformed. It is not proven but scientists are sure that the force of gravity is caused by particles called gravitons. Please forget this bit when it comes to high school physics exams and stick to Newton.

 

 

Wormholes

Another Interesting fact is that if somehow we can enlarge the space between gluons or protons, approximately to the size of a door, it creates something known as wormholes. The wormhole is the key to time travel. So, a man passing through the wormhole and returning back to the same spot would be in a different era. Past, Present or Future – who knows??

 

 

Now a similar phenomenon occurs in the outer space too. The place where it happens is what we call A Black Hole. A person is said to travel to the future if he revolves around the black hole and returns. Of course this is entirely hypothetical for we don’t have hordes of time travellers entering our century through black holes and wormholes every day.

These things tell us that there are many aspects of the Universe that still remains unknown to Mankind. They lie right beneath our eyes but are way beyond the speculation of man. Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein among many others have discovered only about 5% of the Universe.

Only one thing is for sure. The Universe is infinitely small and infinitely Gigantic…. To Be Continued

 

 

 

Black Hole