In Conversation with God....

(strange but yes, it's a science fiction, but cant help with the philosophical overtone)

Part 1

It all started when Rakesh Roy read the Twin paradox in his favorite book – Concepts of Physics, by HC Verma. The whole night he couldn’t sleep a wink. The idea of traveling at the speed of light always excited him more than anything that would excite a boy of his age. He always believed that it, after all, was not so paradoxical, that Einstein was not a moron in predicting ‘The Time Machine’, that HG Wells was the best Fiction ever, even better than the original edition of Harry Potter, his Grand Ma gifted him on his fifth birthday. He was one of the few kids who knew at a young age, what their purpose of life was. His girlfriend was more interested in his Physics than his Physique. His obsession helped him achieve the distinction of being the youngest PhD in Relative Mechanics from the Indian Institute of Science.

His obsession for science and the urge to reason every nuance of the nature, had made him an atheist. He never talked to anyone about his dream of constructing ‘The Time Machine’ which he would call the ‘Time manipulator’, with which he would master time, he would master life and death, he would become immortal, he would become ‘GOD’. Everyday he would wake up from such dreams, working hard to make them his destiny. He didn’t believe in God, he believed in Science. And this belief in Science got him the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics for his revolutionary paper on ‘The String Theory and the Fourth Dimension’ at the age of 32. The award and the prize money were enough for him to set up the National Physics Laboratory, in a remote village of Orissa.

It was the Year 2047 AD and the NPL had become the largest government funded research organization within a decade of its inception. There were hundreds of junior scientists, engineers, quantum physicists, nanotechnologists, all young and bright minds working on various projects assigned by the Chief Scientist, Dr. Rakesh Roy. He kept them unaware of his mighty plans of ‘Operation TM – the Time Manipulator’. Only Siddharth, his favorite student was his close confidant, who would assist him in realizing his dreams.

The date was chosen by Roy as 13^th July, a Friday. At first Siddharth was a little uncomfortable with the date, but soon realized that his boss was a staunch atheist and never believed in superstitions. Nonetheless, he had all the faith in Roy and Roy trusted him. Their Time Machine was a spherical Gyroscopic contraption, with the outer shell rotating independently of the cockpit inside. The outer shell, made of a nano material, would be rotated instantaneously and the super magnetic fields would create perpetual magnetic induced acceleration to high speeds, comparable to the speed of light. The machine was ready to be tested and Roy could not control his excitement.

Thanks to his desperation, Roy dropped the idea of using a guinea pig for the test, instead he took the pilot seat of the cockpit and ordered Siddharth to initiate the machine. Siddharth, as a servile sub-ordinate followed the orders and toggled the start button. He then set the time display on the control panel to a positive fifty and gave a voice signal to Roy. Within a few seconds, blurred images of future started flashing in front of Roy. And with a sudden thump, the free floating cockpit came to a standstill. Roy opened the sliding door to the cockpit and was about to step into the ‘future’ when an old but muscular man confronted him. He wore a saffron dhoti and wooden sandals, and had long, dense hair gathered into a bun over his head. Upon asking, he said that he was the God. Following is the conversation that happened between Roy and the old man, upon his revelation.

Part 2

Roy – I don’t believe you. You are just a sly-looking sadhu, who proclaims himself to be the God. We have many such self-proclaiming Gods in our country.

God – I don’t know about your country but yes I’m the God of this world, because I created it.

Roy – Oh my God !! (says rather sarcastically) So you have been living in disguise for all these millions of years, only to welcome me in my future. This was the last thing I would expect to see in my future. All right, let’s says you are the God, then you must know everything. You must have all the answers. Tell me, Where are we? Where is this world in this universe? Where is the start and where is the end? Who am I? And yes, Can you do magic?

God – Magic is nothing but illusion. And you are my biggest magic. This world is a bounded illusion, whereas the universe is the unbounded illusion of the bounded reality. I know it’s difficult to believe me, but you are a part of the system I created, the system which is as technical as a computer simulation, and as mathematical as a scalar matrix. The world is a self-evolving program, where all non-living things are constant parameters, whereas living things are variable parameters. It was a very slow running program until I tweaked it to allow an unbounded parameter called man, whom I linked to the mainstream evolution by apes and monkeys. With this new variable parameter, my program entered its advanced version, which was much more active and fast. And Man being a superior entity, became the disillusioned master. The unbounded parameter started to grow exponentially in the parallel dimension of evolution, which you call the mind. But the boon became the bane. Your insatiable greed and the incessant race to be the God, made you a destroyer. That is the biggest difference between you and me. I create to create, you create to destroy.

Roy – If everything is illusion, then who are you? Where do you live? What is reality?

God – Reality is nothing but constant illusion. I may be the creator of this world, just like many other creators from our world of Om, but I also have a purpose to serve, as every element of your world has. I was like the supervisor of your world, I made the rules, I defined the boundaries, I balanced the forces, I controlled everything except your mind, and man was ever sub-consciously aware of that. To you, I am just a personification of your perception of God, otherwise I am a string of energy, whose existence is defined by dimensions, unlike those followed in your world. There are millions of us, and all have their own purpose to serve, to be the God of our creation. And our world also has a God, whom we don’t know, who exists in a world controlled by someone even more superior, and so on. It’s just that you were at the rear end of an infinite spectrum. Some of the worlds at our level advance to the next level where every unbounded parameter creates another world of its own, and this is the ultimate purpose we all have to serve.

Roy – You sound like a crazy scientist who never got famous and found science fiction as a short cut to fame. I guess this is some kind of fiction of the future. I better leave this place. I still don’t believe you. Hey! If you are the God, then you must know what my name is, where I work, and what Siddharth is doing in the present?

God – Nobel laureate, Rakesh Roy, Chief Scientist, NPL. That’s your identification in your world. Actually, you are the only man to have broken the code of my program, and redefined your own dimensions. And in the present, which is relative to your own time axis, Siddharth has died in an explosion caused due to anti-particle annihilation in your Particle Accelerator Lab, and just now, your last scientist took his last breath.

Roy – Holy shit!! You are just a psycho. And you are scaring the hell out of me. Just go away and let me see this future for which I have come here.

God – There is nothing left in this world. What are you going to see? The world has already ended. World War – III started in 2062 AD and left the world in ashes by 2068 AD

Roy – How is this possible? We have nuclear proliferation, we have the Security Council, no country can nuke another, they can’t be so foolish. The world cannot end.

God – The first one was the war of greed, the second one was war of revenge, and the third one was war of religion. I told you, you create to destroy. And religion also was your creation. Humans can control humans, but they can not control the mind, nor can I.

Roy – So what if all this is true. I can always go back in my present and save the world from its demise.

God – My dear, you may have tried to become God, but you can’t be, ‘coz I created you, and you have a flaw. In your desperation, you never tested your Time Machine, it can go forward, but it can never go backward.