In the dawn of civilization, the invention of wheel heralded a brave new world in human development. Though nobody knew who, when or how it was invented, revolution occurred not only in visible objects; but also in the microcosm of molecules or atoms or even subatomic particles, which we can not see.
In human diseases too, there is spinning, as is evidenced by epilepsy (rings of spreading electrical discharges); vertigo (feeling of rotation); arrhythmia (re-entrant triggering in heart muscles) etc. But this is subjective (and not objective) in nature, since only the person feels it. No one else can observe it.
In an atomic level, we see, electrons spinning around themselves as well as around nucleus; just as we also see planets revolving around their own axes in addition to their revolution around a star.
This phenomenon repeats in still higher levels. The moon revolves around the earth, which in turn revolves around the sun. Even the galaxies spin around black holes and so on.
The whole story reminds us of theThree Fates of Greek mythology; Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos (…or their Indian counterparts Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara), and their cycles of life and development and death thereof. This also reflects on the cycle of the universe itself, it’s creation(Big Bang), it’s sustenance(expansion), and it’s collapse(Big Crunch).
Tamaso ma jyotirgamaya (= Let there be light and there was light: Genesis), which in Sanskrit means that the universe (jyoti=light) was created from out of nothing (tamosa = darkness), again points to this never ending cycle of darkness–light–(again darkness?). This all or none phenomenon (of light=1, and darkness=0) as is seen here, is a binary one. There are even binary stars, pulsars, which rotates around its counterpart to emit lighthouse like off-on light signals.
Why do they have to rotate? To create gravity? centrifugal force? as a result of space time curvature? Don’t know the answer for sure. Whats your say?
Tags: Astrophysics, mythology, Science
