The Cosmic Egg — An Indian interpretation on the creation of the universe
We all know that the universe is massive and contains everything that we have ever discovered from the Big Bang. I personally like to think of it as — the humans took everything they know about outer space and put it in a commonplace called the Universe.
There’s a common misconception that people have when it comes to differentiating between the “universe” and the “observable universe”.
What is the observable universe?
It is simply the extent we, as humans, can see (and have discovered) different celestial objects in outer space. These objects can be stars, planets, galaxies, black holes, quasars, and even dark energy. This is the extent we have been able to observe with the current level of technology we possess. We are intelligent enough to know that there’s more to this universe, but not intelligent enough to be able to explore that… yet.
So, we call, what we have been able to discover, the “observable universe”. It is measured to be 46 Billion Light Years long.
Ever since the Big Bang, scientists believe that the universe has been expanding at a rate of 73.3 kilometers per second per megaparsec, give or take 2.5 km/sec/Mpc. American astronomer, Edwin Hubble, discovered that the universe is expanding by noticing how…
