GLIMPSES OF HUMANITY’S HERITAGE – PER CURRENT SCIENCE

FIRST BIG BANG

Current science seems to say something quite different

Which, at least to some people may not be as poetic or inspiring,

And whose details are for many rather abstruse and opaque.

But it strikes many others  as reasonable and meaningful.

This  is the current view of Science regarding how the World arose:

The cosmos burst forth into a spatial void with a steady temporal flow,

That interlinks Space and Time: Space is container of tangible Matter,

While ceaseless Time is the channel  for constant changes to occur.

This first burst of cosmic birth  is described by modern science

As a Big Bang that occurred, one reckons, thirteen plus billion years ago.

From the cosmic perspective was not all that big

Nor a bang that anyone heard. It was just emergence of Space and Time

Ex nihilo: From nothing, incredible as it might seem.

At the same time there arose tangible matter and subtle energy.

Both were at once subject to inexorable Laws of Nature.

From these arose in the world  myriad wondrous things

That range from the quite simple  to extremely complex ones.

First came tiny mass-bits called quarks,  and along with them leptons

As well as interacting bosons which keep the world woven.

The photon and the graviton, The W, Z and gluons are the cements

That, invisibly and subtly intertwine and the sustain the physical world.

Quarks and leptons are the matter, and bosons are the glue

Generating the unseen forces that keep things from falling apart.

These cause all the twists and turns causing  the physical world.

So says the Standard Model. When the initial primal specks

Of matter and energy emerged  there was absolutely nothing grand

In that new-born primeval universe. This is the current picture.