15th June 2016, 11:40pm: It was another hectic day at office. To rejuvenate my exhausted brain, I switched on my WiFi and watched Bhagavad Gita Episodes of Mahabharat in YouTube. As I was watching the Vishwaroop Darshan episode (B.R.Chopra Mahabharat - Episode 74), something struck my mind. As soon as the episode ended, I immediately started watching the episodes of a Discovery Channel series in succession - How the Universe Works (Black Holes - How the Universe Works ᴴᴰ | S01E02 | Black Holes and How the Universe Works ᴴᴰ | S04E03 | Monster Black Hole ). By the time, the episode ended, I was almost on the verge of sleeping with my laptop still powered on. Fortunately, I was able to switch off the laptop and WiFi before retiring to bed. While I was enjoying the mythological episode followed by a sci-fi series, my subconscious mind was voraciously feeding on the information present in those video movies.
In the Dream: "I am the Creator, Paarth... I am the Preserver as well as the Destroyer... I am the Beginning of the Universe, the Middle as well as the extreme End point... Beyond Me, there is nothing... I am Time... I am the fabric of Space & Time on which Everything is Present..."
In the faint echo of these verses, there appeared a super-massive black hole right in front of my eyes. The extreme radiation felt like witnessing the glare of a million million trillion Suns together. I was witnessing the fiery storm of space & time being dragged into this giant cosmic sinkhole. Whatever I had read in my 10+2 Physics books was happening right before my eyes. Time was slowing down by the unimaginable gravity of the scary black disc ahead of me. The faster I tried to run from it, the slower I was moving. Everything that my common sense dictated was going haywire.
I woke up with a start only to hear the sound of the ceiling fan rotating at full speed. I was profusely sweating. It took me a few seconds to realize that it was a God gifted nightmare. After drinking a glass full of water, I again retired to bed.
Waking Up: Black Holes are the Creators, Preservers as well as Destroyers in the Universe we live in. They are created when extremely heavy stars collapse under their own gravity. The explosion created when such stars collapse, is so violent and extreme that, it destroys and rips a hole in the very fabric of spacetime, upon which, our entire universe exists. Sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules, including all the laws of Physics and Chemistry that we know of, break down. Even the light that helps us to see things cannot escape this inescapable & infinite well of gravity. The gravity is so strong that, at the boundary of a Black Hole, time essentially stops. This is something that I read in an article in the Times of India, way back in 2007 (LEADER ARTICLE: Where Time Stands Still).
This extreme description of one of the most bizarre and scariest places in the universe, is enough to knock out senses. No wonders, after witnessing the Vishwaroop, Arjuna appealed to Sri Krishna to return to his original human form. But, despite the scary stuff, these extreme cosmic wonders present a beautiful cycle of creation, preservation and destruction. A Black Hole is formed by the destruction of a star. Its unimaginable gravity attracts gas and dust which creates stars, planets, asteroids, comets and galaxies. Without their gravity, all of this would be flung apart in space. They help preserve the individual galaxies by acting as a universal glue. In fact, our Sun is also orbiting around a super-massive black hole Sagittarius A* at a distance of 26000 light years. When it comes to destruction, these cosmic cannibals are the ultimate destroyers. They rip and incinerate things to the extreme. They are truly the end point of our knowledge and existence that we know of. The following wraps up Everything -
“Black holes are where God divided by zero.” - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
