How far can your mind go?
It was a foggy morning, the rain had just stopped. You would connect that with rain, fog should go off, but this was not the case with this land. This was the land of mysteries; a land, where laws of physics did not apply. We have been living in this world for two months now, but nothing here so far has stopped to amuse me. And you cannot just read it, you have to feel it.
It was a part of the experiment by Prof. Joshi, who had been intercepting background radiation for over 4 decades now and had come to the conclusion that laws of physics are not same at all places in the universe. He had done this research making innumerous assumptions, but always coming out with correct results. He was a kind of lunatic of his own, but nobody complaint, as long as he kept publishing research papers and bringing fame to IITD. But, last year, he made breathtaking grounds.
He had finally devised a mechanism to simulate a virtual world where the universal constant could be changed as desired. He first of all, took three constants into account. These were the gravitational constant G, the speed of light c and the planck’s constant h. And then began the journey through the unknown lands. Professor simulated the environment with the speed of light reduced to nine-tenth of original, halving the gravitational constant and keeping the planck’s constant the same. And he found remarkable results. He had anticipated that with even the slightest of changes in these values, the sustainability of life would not be possible. But, to his and our astonishment, even at such values, there was life, but not the one we would like to find. It was completely different. And, it was for the worse.
The simulation worked on the principle of assuming that the earth was like sun 10 billion years back in time and then these values changed in the entire universe. This simulation was extra-ordinary in its results, exactly predicting the situation right now if we enter the correct values of the constants. So, we had to wear these helmets which would lock our minds in this virtual reality and we would be observing the virtual world, which looked absolutely real, but a little blurred, visibility in that world was reduced, light had lost its natural intensity. So, we had to rely on our position sensors to explore. I and my roommate were the first of the explorers chosen the by the professor.
The world was absolutely different. It rained almost all the time, but it was not water. It was some kind of a carbon compound, which had nitrogen in it and it was extremely useful for any kind of growth of any kind. All this data was experimental, nothing conclusive had come out as yet, as we had been there only for a couple of months. Also, reducing the gravitational constant had made the days longer and it was even more enhanced by reduced speed of light. So, a day at our time was only one-third or so of a day there. And we found that humans had not evolved in this environment. In fact, the diversity of flora and fauna was very low. However, the size of creatures was very large. They were as large as the entire statue of liberty. This was perhaps due to the lack of gravitation. And, the sky was not blue as well. It was a sort of greenish with patches of space visible, stars in daytime.
After a couple of months of observation, the professor and his team is busy analyzing the findings. Stay tuned for updates on further research of IITD.
It was a foggy morning, the rain had just stopped. You would connect that with rain, fog should go off, but this was not the case with this land. This was the land of mysteries; a land, where laws of physics did not apply. We have been living in this world for two months now, but nothing here so far has stopped to amuse me. And you cannot just read it, you have to feel it.
It was a part of the experiment by Prof. Joshi, who had been intercepting background radiation for over 4 decades now and had come to the conclusion that laws of physics are not same at all places in the universe. He had done this research making innumerous assumptions, but always coming out with correct results. He was a kind of lunatic of his own, but nobody complaint, as long as he kept publishing research papers and bringing fame to IITD. But, last year, he made breathtaking grounds.
He had finally devised a mechanism to simulate a virtual world where the universal constant could be changed as desired. He first of all, took three constants into account. These were the gravitational constant G, the speed of light c and the planck’s constant h. And then began the journey through the unknown lands. Professor simulated the environment with the speed of light reduced to nine-tenth of original, halving the gravitational constant and keeping the planck’s constant the same. And he found remarkable results. He had anticipated that with even the slightest of changes in these values, the sustainability of life would not be possible. But, to his and our astonishment, even at such values, there was life, but not the one we would like to find. It was completely different. And, it was for the worse.
The simulation worked on the principle of assuming that the earth was like sun 10 billion years back in time and then these values changed in the entire universe. This simulation was extra-ordinary in its results, exactly predicting the situation right now if we enter the correct values of the constants. So, we had to wear these helmets which would lock our minds in this virtual reality and we would be observing the virtual world, which looked absolutely real, but a little blurred, visibility in that world was reduced, light had lost its natural intensity. So, we had to rely on our position sensors to explore. I and my roommate were the first of the explorers chosen the by the professor.
The world was absolutely different. It rained almost all the time, but it was not water. It was some kind of a carbon compound, which had nitrogen in it and it was extremely useful for any kind of growth of any kind. All this data was experimental, nothing conclusive had come out as yet, as we had been there only for a couple of months. Also, reducing the gravitational constant had made the days longer and it was even more enhanced by reduced speed of light. So, a day at our time was only one-third or so of a day there. And we found that humans had not evolved in this environment. In fact, the diversity of flora and fauna was very low. However, the size of creatures was very large. They were as large as the entire statue of liberty. This was perhaps due to the lack of gravitation. And, the sky was not blue as well. It was a sort of greenish with patches of space visible, stars in daytime.
After a couple of months of observation, the professor and his team is busy analyzing the findings. Stay tuned for updates on further research of IITD.
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