One Last Dance

Hola, losers I know the preceding two articles might have left you in a whirlpool of conflict between general logic and reality and it's highly probable that you might be starting to doubt the purpose I'm willing to fulfill through my writings. And I assure you that after reading this article you will be ever more motivated to know the 'routine' to this magnificent choreography of the cosmos. This will be the last article where I will be talking about the fundamental ingredients in a more Orthodox and somewhat conventionally mysterious manner.

The title to this article may remind you of Cpt. Steve Rogers venturing about one last dance with Peggy Carter(which, he deservingly got.).But this, sadly, will not follow a reference to The Avengers although you will notice certain wonderful references in not too distant future articles. But let's just focus on the topic in hand. Here, what I mean by one last dance is a violent yet adorably romantic mingling of the 'judges' who govern the cosmic waltz of space, time, mass and energy. And just like any other dance reality show where the actual preparations to the performances are hidden, the practice and preparations to our cosmic waltz are also cloaked by certain 'drapes' which deserve an article of their own. But to maintain a wave of continuity to our trail, we're going to seldom refer to them in this one.

Now that you are equipped with the features of The Spectator and The Assistant, you will be able to process the connection between the pieces of this grand jigsaw of eternal beauty. Here's how: There have been numerous attempts to understand how the universe works and what consequences do the fundamental laws result in. And this quest of curiosity started from the times of Tycho Brahe, and Thales, to Aristotle, Newton and Albert Einstein and is still in action. Gazing at the stars, wondering what purpose do we have in their midst and searching for answers which take us ever more closer to the truth, all of these processes were the stepping stones to all the knowledge we yet possess about the cosmos. Not only stars and planets(Astrophysics and cosmology)but also the micro-cosmos smeared all around, above and inside us (quantum physics). And you may be amazed to know that the big and the small are related to each other in exactly the way we are related to our ancestors. You will notice that rather than referring to parents, I have referred to ancestors and that's because the gargantuan universe that we are witnessing today, was once an entity way smaller than an atom (just to give you an idea of the scale I'm referring to, it's a comparison between the sun and your eyeballs) and they share a way more complex historical background which any of us has ever tackled with yet. Isaac Newton explained the motion of planets and other heavenly bodies (gravitation) and attempting to grasp and radiate the concept of space and time which he ended up in a haze of confusion due to lack of scientific advancements in his time. Then came Leibniz and Ernst Mach who foretold the complexity of the matter we are dealing with, which led to the first scientific revolution in the early twentieth century led by The man himself, Albert Einstein. With his special and general theory of relativity in 1905 and 1915, he made a paradigm shifting breakthrough to understand the true nature of reality, only to realize in the following years that there were still some missing pieces to get a hold of the magnificent choreography showing new 'moves' and 'tricks' ahead of us every single time. And those missing pieces are namely quantum mechanics and gravity which may not seem to have a lot to discover in them, but it turned out in the later years(1930s) that these pieces give rise to the very obstacles we face while understanding them. It feels like The Spectator doesn't want you to get a glimpse of his face.

Now that we have a rough yet interesting map to The Spectator's home, we can proceed to look at the jaw dropping features of the laws (judges) who rule this 'town'. And from here, we will no longer talk in a mysterious manner, rather, we will use the language of physics to grasp what we humans have made out of the cosmos in the course of the last few centuries, for we are an attempt by the universe to know itself. And that has an astonishingly literal meaning to our purpose in the midst of stars. Later.