Long ago, there lived the greatest mind of all, named Naal. His knowledge was unparalleled his intelligence was unquestionable. His understandings on philosophy, anatomy, chemistry, calculus classical and all of quantum physics was unfathomable. His knowledge was supreme, that one could neither know how much he knew nor much that he dint. To some, he was an outstanding scholar, to rest he was a perfect alchemist. Ahh.. you cant doubt both. He was the perfect alchemist not because he could turn base metals to gold, not because he could turn anything to gold, certainly not because he could turn anything to anything, for he could turn nothing to anything. His alchemy skills were extraordinary, that even to a learned person, his ability to churn things out of nothing looked uncanny. There would be no better way to express his brilliance than to say that he possessed all the world's knowledge.
Con temporarily, there lived, the husband of a filthy rich lady called Mall. Being so rich, they had their own laboratory, villa, and pretty much everything in their private island. Mall was more a practical physicist and invented some of most brilliant stuffs ranging from deep sea riders, some biggest and powerful weapons. He was also a brainy architect,and constructed some of super structures of the world. He was particularly interested in prolonging the half-life of matter and thereby reducing the rate of decay of matter. He could virtually stop material from decay and preserve state of almost anything thus preventing it from being dead. These inventions would disprove the very theory of carbon dating.
These two had successful career, they debate against each other in some and worked together in some, and thus between them, they had invented, discovered almost all things possible. These two were considered the greatest of greatest minds, who would even imagine the possibility of such great minds to coexist. On a fine day, they started to work on a project of extraordinary magnitude, which no own ever dared to do. It was such an daunting task that it would doubt their sanity. They wanted to find the boundaries or the ends of universe. They decided to split on opposite direction, they calculated the optimal sub photo-speed that they would have to travel. They invented incredible spacecrafts of which some were ironically designed to resemble turtles and some to aptly resemble horses, lions and falcons. They invented novel ways to reduce the mass so that they could accelerate to a near speed of light. The idea such a task was originally proposed by Mall, though Naal was skeptical about such daunting task reluctantly agreed. Powered with all their inventions and vast knowledge, they embarked a mammoth, dangerous and greatest voyage of all time. Not many even had ability to imagine what such a gigantic task was about and were very skeptical, but these two being wisest, and cleverest of all never cared about others inability.
With no delay, they started their voyage and both accelerated, so quickly that within moments they crossed supersonic speeds, they swiftly reached thousands of mach. By the time they reached the verge of pluto's orbit they were already near the speed of photon. Further they traveled away from sun, they reached the edge of solar system. It took them nearly thousands of times more time to reach the edge of solar system compared to time taken to the reach pluto's orbit. When they turned back, the once mighty sun looked nothing more than a tiny star. They soon crossed numerous milestones and soon lost count.
By now, Mall reached the centaurs and was admired by the beauty of its arrangements, however he made sure not to be distracted by these events as their deed and destination is much extraordinary. Mall's journey was more colorful. He could see millions of new phenomenon that would otherwise never be simulated in earth. He could realize the existence of some powerful magnetic and radioactive fields and discovered extremely harsh conditions that would defy any known law of physics. He soon found answers for many deepest puzzles of modern physics. No body can even imagine existence of things that he just saw. If one acquired knowledge equivalent to just a moment of what Mall's, would made them the greatest mind in the modern physics. But Mall was no ordinary, and was not satisfied by these and continued the journey. He started to enjoy and appreciated the nature and behavior of light when subjected to such extremely skewed space-time curve, but he kept going and going.
The initial phases of Naal's travel was as interesting as Mall's, but soon Naal's journey became patchy. He would travel vast number of years and crossed even billions light years without seeing anything, but suddenly it would become super interesting as his journey would be infested with millions of black holes and countless other supernovas. At times the journey became so lively that there would be a black-hole and white-hole so close to each other and at times it would be very dull absolutely with out anything, it was too empty even to the hypothetical ether. These irregularities marked most of his journey.
Mall relishing the colors of nature, covered great distances and even greater distances. Soon he hit a period of absolute nothingness, nevertheless he kept moving forward, but no matter how fast or how long he moved the terrain dint change. He was sure that he was not at the end of universe, for if it were, he wouldn't be able to move further He was devastated that he not only couldn't reach the end but even couldn't prove the existence of such thing. He never was able to ascertain the presence or absence of what would be called the end of universe, thus after deep and sincere thought, he decided to end the magnificent journey and headed back to home. This marked the end of a spectacular journey which no other ever did or could ever do. He was disappointed by his failure, but what he knew not, was it ascertained a remarkable truth.
Naal on other hand, was not worried about the patches of nothingness as he always sensed the existence of exponentially powerful magnetic and gravitational fields farther and beyond these vacuum. But similar to Mall's journey, he too reached a horrendously vast terrain of nothing. He could no longer sense presence of anything beyond, so he concluded that he reached what would be called as 'The End' of universe. Combined with great intelligence, extreme acumen and extraordinary persistence, he thus discovered the end of universe. But he could still move further, so doesn't it mean 'not an end'?? The answer was simple that "universe is expanding", thus the boundary kept growing and so he could still move. He observed and noted down various readings using some marvelous apparatus, which would later become proofs for that nothing exists beyond where he was and thus he found the end of universe. Thus he returned home with a greater accomplishment and sense of achievement.
Then for billions of ages to come, these two lived happily with what they achieved.
However, the truth was not so simple. The greatest barrier to intelligence is knowledge itself. Restricted by the theory of absolute supremacy of light, Naal never imagined about objects, galaxies and universes that already travel faster that light. As these celestial wonders, recede from us faster than the speed of light, and nothing from these objects could ever reach us, thus making them eternally untraceable, but this doesn't mean they do not exist. When Naal was happy about his false invention and the whole world was rejoicing that Universe was indeed measured, the Universe on other hand neither felt conquered nor worried as it knew who it was. !!! The truth is the universe never had a beginning nor a boundary.
The Universe tunes the world with its moves, they rightly call a divine dance.
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Naal- NaalMugan
Mall- ThiruMaal
Universe - The Lord Haran Himself
[Updated again]
Correcting the references of Mall and Naal, and few other minorc changes
Inspired by the story of a star
http://www.koushikkr.in/2012/09/09/story-of-a-star/
