Be Happy!–For Happiness Universe and Life were Created Against Impossible Odds
Let us start our search for contentment from the beginning.
That is from the start of the universe. The most believable and widely accepted concept of the creation of the universe is the Huge Bang idea of creation. According to it, the universe is created from an explosion in the super condensed material and consequent enlargement of material. As an example : Our universe is expanding like a polka dotted balloon which is being blown out.
Each dot ( representing a star or a universe ) on it is distancing itself from one another. A little slower and the cosmos would have fallen down back, a little quicker and the cosmic material would have long gone completely dispersed.
If the density of the universe were a bit more, the universe would not be expanding but, because of the force of attraction of atomic particles, contracting, finally falling down. If the first density were a little bit less, then the universe would be expanding far quickly than now and no stars and no universes would ever have formed.
Due to this fact atoms are electrically neutral. The 4 basic forces in the nature, in decreasing order of power, areStrong nuclear force, Weak nuclear force, Electromagnetic force, and Gravitational force. The difference between the strongest and the weakest is about twenty-five followed by 38 zeroes.
Still inside that great range the individual and the relative magnitudes of the forces are smoothly balanced otherwise the universe would not have existed. If the creation of the sustained universe was a miracle, the development of life on it was also the same : Had our sun been 30% bigger it would’ve been burnt out in 4 bln years, too short a time for clever life to develop.
Had it been smaller95% of stars are smaller than the sunother difficulties would have followed. In a similar way, had the sun not been a source of steady energy for billions of years, had the orbit of earth around sun been a bit narrower or wider, had planet Jupiter been too near or too far to save earth from the rain of steroids, had moon not been so improbably huge to stabilise the lean of the Earth’s axis to around twenty-three degrees, had the solar system’s position in the universe been too close to the edge or too near to the middle, complicated form of life would be most unlikely. Carbon based molecules can only survive between the boundaries of 120 and -20 C and earth is the sole [planet whose average temperatures fall inside those boundaries.
Just about all the radiation emitted by the sun falls into a single band that is 10-25 of the entire range. This is also the sole radiation in which photosynthesis works and our eye is able to see. Water also has unusual properties conducive for lifebelow four C it expands ( so that even if ponds and so on. Are frozen at surface beneath water isn’t ), highest latent heat, high thermal capacity, high thermal conductivity whilst that of ice and snow is low, high surface tension, and viscosity, etc.
The 1st step to contentment is to realize this satisfied but impossible wierd of creation and life. We are very fortunate to have a universe even more so to have a universe lively. Since life is so unlikely earth may be the sole planet on which there is life.