Most of us have fantasies to travel in time like in
Spielberg movies and dream about violating the fundamental law of nature by oscillating
to and fro in fourth dimension. We always wish to overcome that power which
confines us to stay only in present but neither in future nor in past.
Technological advancements might give us another version of Jurassic Park in 3D
but can they bring back those real-time footage of Mesozoic era? Scientific
developments might further delay our death but can they reveal us the birth of
life? What if we can see our ancestors solving our unanswered questions of
evolution? What if we get to shoot the world before the invention of
photography? Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts and relax! Here we land
on the timeless planet with jobless people who studied quantum physics a bit
seriously!
For a while let’s admire the real stars not on the silver
screen but on the screen high above the clear night-sky. If you have never
tried counting them as kids or locate your favorite constellations you've missed some life past then. Well, as soon as we grew few inches after reciting
our favorite rhyme of the twinkling little stars, we have realized that those
tiny diamonds in the sky are extremely large to imagine and are hanging in a
far away place beyond the horizons and zeniths.
The only reason for them to appear up there, the very identity for those
shiny masses and in fact the sole cause for them to be our topic is that
brilliant five letter particle(or wave) called l-i-g-h-t. All we know about the
luminosity of a star as a geeky chemical reaction that produces light and those
rays keep on travelling till they fall on our retina. As a matter of fact anything
that shines reflects some light to remain visible. For example, every one of us
reflects light though with different amounts of brightness (No I’m no racist). One
interesting fact out of this entire story is that light keeps on travelling infinitely
large distances forever, which in turn means that, far away objects like stars might
have been black holes ages ago.
Imagine the light reflected by an arbitrary extinct species
of yester year. It must have already traveled zillions of light years and must
be still in the unending celestial navigation being dampened after too many Doppler
effects searching for its destination i.e. some random alien checking out
through a telescope up there might be lucky to see a sleuth of koala bears
making love or a flock of archaeopteryx fighting over prey. All we need to do would be recording that and transmitting back into our storage devices. Although it surprisingly sounds
simple, one should notice the advanced rocket science behind this and most
importantly the involvement of extra terrestrials. After the amendment in the
federal law (Title 14, Section 1211) which forbids the citizens to have any
contact of extraterrestrials, ET-Exposure has been the buzz word during the
previous decade. This has now given a wider scope for the space-man to brag a
bit more than the big bang. Meanwhile the recent neutrino experiment at CERN
disproved the famous theory of relativity by claiming light as another particle
(or wave) that can be chased after all. RIP Einstein. So if not the tide, at
least the time waits.
Friends, Readers and Dreamers; lend me your eyes; I come
to fill them with vision, and not to bury the dreams. Every dream has been our
friend, faithful and just to us but people say we’re ambitious. Bear with me.
None has lost any reason. Let’s not leave the past dead. Rewind the clocks and
erase your history. Live every moment and refuse to grow. Trace back the sand
prints. Strive to even win back the minutes you've lost while reading me. Throw
some life at your subconscious. Stop your worries for the future. Time seems
infinite both ways.
