God's Own Equation

“Today I will explain everything. I will explain the existence of the tiniest particle and of the greatest bodies of the universe. I have unified all the fundamental forces and every physical phenomenon can now be explained.” And with this Professor Vyas raised his hands in air as if he was announcing his equivalence with the almighty.

This was the most awaited event for the entire scientific community. Professor Vyas claimed that his theory can explain every physical phenomenon-“Theory of Everything”. Today he was going to give a presentation on his theory to an audience packed with the most intellectual minds of the world.

This was not much of a surprise for those who knew Professor Vyas. He was a child prodigy. He had mastered nearly all the disciplines of mathematics and physics by the age of 23. And after dedicating 10 years exclusively to theoretical physics, he came up with the theory of everything.

Though people said that he was god gifted, he never believed in god. He was considered as an atheist and a stubborn man by his peers.

Professor Vyas continued, “My equation is stable and will give finite results. This equation is the result of my supreme intellect and now future can be defined.”

With this he began his presentation. Equations started to float around as many intellects kept wondering that how a man can single handedly come up with these mighty equations.

And in the end came the final equation. Everybody was spell bounded. It was perfect.

“Any questions”, asked Professor Vyas with that smile of ultimate satisfaction.

“Sir, can your theory stand up to experimental scrutiny?” asked a young man who was sitting in the last row.

Professor Vyas was shocked. “What?? There is no such device to test it. I have demonstrated that my equation is stable. Till now, no theory has reached up to this level. Your question is invalid.”

“But I do have a device sir.” The young man took out a device from his bag which resembled a laptop.

“Sir, I have made a simulator. You can enter the values for all the constants and variables in it and this simulator will simulate the entire process from the creation of the universe to the present.”

Professor Vyas laughed at this as he said, “So, you think your machine with some bits and bytes will simulate the universe!!! So, funny!!”

“Sir, but there is no harm in testing.”, said the young man.

“Ok, as you wish”

The device had a screen and a keyboard just like a laptop, but certainly it was not a laptop. It had various unknown things attached to it. Professor Vyas entered his equation and all other values in the simulator. Though there were some other fields which were left blank as Professor Vyas had nothing to enter into it.

It was a jaw opening view for the entire audience. The simulator was also perfect. One of its columns calculated all the values at enormous speed while the other one was giving a streaming pictorial view of the creation of the universe. The Equation of Professor Vyas seemed perfect. The creation of stars and galaxies was happening based on the equation defined by Professor Vyas.

“You see, my equation is perfect.”, said Professor Vyas.

“But, there is a problem sir. It seems that there is no life on earth.”

“What”, exclaimed Professor Vyas?

The young man was right. Earth had no life.

“See young man, my equation has nothing to do with life.”

“But sir, life began on earth in perfect conditions which were created by perfect integration and disintegration of atoms. So, your theory comes in the scenario. But, still we can notice nothing on earth!”, said the young man.

Professor Vyas was amazed. His equation missed to explain some phenomenon. Equally amazed was the audience at the power and the intellect of the man and his machine.

Everybody started asking questions to the young man. But he answered none of them. He peacefully went away at the end of the day. That man was never found again.

The world was amazed. Some said that he was god himself and it was his miracle that day. Professor Vyas’s equation became yet another issue for the scientific community.

But Professor Vyas had realized something. He didn’t knew whether that man was god or an extraordinary being with extraordinary intelligence. But what he realized that equations can never create life. No equation can parallel god’s own equation. His equation failed on a simulator. But the experimental scrutiny of god’s equation is what we see around us!

Life is god’s creation. God is the truth. And if god is unexplained, one would never find the ultimate truth. He created us and we created science. Science can take us to the penultimate, but the ultimate would ever be reserved for god.

Today Professor Vyas is no more an atheist. He still works to give better understanding of nature through science. Though he still wonders what that simulator was!!!