The size of our own littleness, and an insight of our very own surroundings
Regarding the subject of Science as Existence, this video from the National Geographic shows how small are we as a planet, as a living organism, as a microcosmos in itself – how much of a moment in time are we – when compared to the quantity and vastness of all of the objects and matter that surround us, in a variety of manners.
Much work is and have been done into making sense of “what is it all”, how it all started, and how do we actually relate to it.
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity from 1915 for example, worked out how this same objects correlate to each other and how gravity and speed work to keep each other in alignment – for example the Earth rotating around our Sun.
The theory of relativity, or simply relativity, generally refers specifically to two theories of Albert Einstein: special relativity and general relativity.
General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. It unifies special relativity and Newton’s law of universal gravitation, and describes gravity as a geometric property of space and time, or spacetime. In particular, the curvature of spacetime is directly related to the four-momentum (mass-energy and linear momentum) of whatever matter and radiation are present. The relation is specified by the Einstein field equations, a system of partial differential equations.
Special relativity (SR) (also known as the special theory of relativity or STR) is the physical theory of measurement in inertial frames of reference proposed in 1905 by Albert Einstein (after the considerable and independent contributions of Hendrik Lorentz, Henri Poincaré and others) in the paper “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies“.[1] It generalizes Galileo’s principle of relativity–that all uniform motion is relative, and that there is no absolute and well-defined state of rest (no privileged reference frames)–from mechanics to all the laws of physics, including both the laws of mechanics and of electrodynamics, whatever they may be.[2] Special relativity incorporates the principle that the speed of light is the same for all inertial observers regardless of the state of motion of the source.
The String Theory for example, expands the initial concept in order to explain the dimensions where such objects interact among themselves and what is their relation with each other, space, and time,
String theory is a developing branch of quantum mechanics and general relativity with the aim of merging and reconciling the two areas of physics into a quantum theory of gravity.[1] The strings of string theory are one-dimensional oscillating lines, but they are no longer considered fundamental to the theory, which can be formulated in terms of points or surfaces too.
The key to discover the start of it all tho, lies in finding the Standard Model particle - called “Higgs boson“, or the “God Particle” – proven its existence, it would help explain the origin of mass in the universe.
This effort is being currently coordinated and executed at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), with its Large Hadron Collider.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing particle beams of either protons at an energy of 7 TeV per particle, or lead nuclei at an energy of 574 TeV per nucleus. It is expected that it will address the most fundamental questions of physics, hopefully allowing progress in understanding the deepest laws of nature. The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, as much as 175 metres (570 ft) beneath the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.
The Higgs boson particle is visually explained in the following video, “‘The God Particle’: The Higgs Boson”.
The subject is very complex, but its basics are not, by no end nor means.
As Science makes progress and opens the way, the most obvious and clear to understand the entire subject becomes – including the ability for humanity to understand, and look at itself, its environment and its very own surroundings.
Explaining all around us and who we are with “God created it”, without trying to understand anything else further – at this day and age – is nothing but a simplistic and ignorant way of explaining happenings through dismissal.