5:51 a.m. EDT (9:51
a.m. GMT) on September 14, 2015
Blessed are those who believe in the unseen (Al-Quran, 2:3)
by virtue of the omens given by the prophet (or scientist). The discovery of
the gravitational wave is as significant an event as the discovery of thermal
waves in deep space which produced a colorful map of the universe which could
have been improved by adding a scale and the location of our earth on it. For a
common man, gravitational wave is a kind of earthquake in vacuum. Poetically it
can be called the vagary of nothingness or thingyness depending on how you see
it. Let us hope that the distortion in
time and space caused around us by an event said to have taken place 1.3
billion years ago at a distance of about 7.63x1021 miles from us has
not changed historical records or created intellectual mutants, and if so for
the better. The best effect of the Gravitational wave encounter on earth that I can think of is that the prophecies of doom may be reversed.
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