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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 the other galaxies were moving farther away from us and the farther they were, the faster it was moving.
So, according to the Theory of Cosmic Inflation proposed by Dr. Alan Guth, if it is assumed that the universe started expanding after 1e-37 th of a second after the Big Bang, and the size of the universe before the inflation began was age times the speed of light, then, that would mean that the universe is currently 150 sextillion times larger than the size of the observable universe.
t = 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds (t = age of universe)
This implies that the current size of the universe is 150 Sextillion * 46 Bn Light Years. This is why it is important to know the difference between the universe and the observable…
