CREATIVITY AND MODERN THEORIES

"Creativity" - a simple word that has many hiding meanings. What does it mean to be
creative? Have new ideas, completely different from what other people have had? Being
original? Being inventive? Find a way to adapt to the environment you live in or being able to
create something?

Being creative is not just the above. It's a way we can say that we think outside the
box. Through creativity our imagination is free, we are embraced by that amalgam of ideas,
from which we have to choose the right one. It can be said, in other words, that we are
inspired, we are immersing in new worlds, different from the one we live in.

Reality is as we see it, it's relative. For me, being in the three-dimensional space, there
is no other spatial dimension, or at least I suppose there is, but I can not imagine it concrete.
That's because my reality is what I see, and what is seen is in the space I live. I can’t conceive
other dimensions than the front-back, left-right, up-down. Same as me, a creature in the two-
dimensional space can’t conceive the top-down dimension, it can’t imagine that because for it
there is only the front-back and the left - right. It's a big step, though, if it can admit there is a
third dimension even if it can’t imagine it.

However, there are just a few people who manage to see beyond this reality. The
surrounding world is fascinating. It shows so many things we often fail to find an answer for.
We are not born with answers, but we try to find them, and for a breakthrough to be
accomplished, there is a need for creativity, for a profound thinking so that we can imagine
something that can’t really exist in our reality.

So, what is the link between creativity and scientific theory?

Simple! Science has evolved so much in the last century that it is impossible to think
about how things happen without imagination. We can not see many elements that appear in
modern theories. However, we assume that they are there and we try to imagine them with our
own minds. It is fascinating that we perceive the reality through the things that we see but our
minds don’t have any barriers, they are free to create abstract new images.

Today, great theories of physics have developed because of our minds. Nobody saw an
atom with the naked eye, but something led us to believe it exists, to study it later with the
ultraperforming apparatus.

In chemistry and physics, atomic theory is a scientific theory of the nature of matter,
which states that matter is composed of discrete units called atoms. It began as a philosophical
concept in ancient Greece and entered the scientific mainstream in the early 19th century
when discoveries in the field of chemistry showed that matter did indeed behave as if it were
made up of atoms.
Since atoms were found to be divisible, physicists later invented the term "elementary
particles" to describe the "uncuttable", though not indestructible, parts of an atom. The field of
science which studies subatomic particles is particle physics, and it is in this field that
physicists hope to discover the true fundamental nature of matter.

The black holes are the same story. How can we say that something exists if we don’t
see it? Is there. Science says it, mathematical equations and physics laws say it.

A black hole is a region of spacetime exhibiting such strong gravitational effects that
nothing - not even particles and electromagnetic radiation such as light - can escape from
inside it. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass can deform
spacetime to form a black hole. The boundary of the region from which no escape is possible
is called the event horizon. Although the event horizon has an enormous effect on the fate and
circumstances of an object crossing it, no locally detectable features appear to be observed. In
many ways a black hole acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. Moreover,
quantum field theory in curved spacetime predicts that event horizons emit Hawking
radiation, with the same spectrum as a black body of a temperature inversely proportional to
its mass. This temperature is on the order of billionths of a kelvin for black holes of stellar
mass, making it essentially impossible to observe.

The way the universe was transformed is just as ambiguous. However, due to people’s
creativity, because of their ability to turn illogic into logic, all of these are accepted.

The Universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars,
galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. While the spatial size of the entire
Universe is still unknown, it is possible to measure the observable universe.

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of
the Universe. Under this theory, space and time emerged together 13.799±0.021 billion years
ago with a fixed amount of energy and matter that has become less dense as the Universe has
expanded. After an initial accelerated expansion at around 10−32 seconds, and the separation
of the four known fundamental forces, the Universe gradually cooled and continued to
expand, allowing the first subatomic particles and simple atoms to form. Dark matter
gradually gathered forming a foam-like structure of filaments and voids under the influence of
gravity. Giant clouds of hydrogen and helium were gradually drawn to the places where dark
matter was most dense, forming the first galaxies, stars, and everything else seen today. It is
possible to see objects that are now further away than 13.799 billion light-years because space
itself has expanded, and it is still expanding today. This means that objects which are now up
to 46.5 billion light-years away can still be seen in their distant past, because in the past when
their light was emitted, they were much closer to the Earth.

We don’t need to fly outside the terrestrial atmosphere to see that our planet is not flat.
We can figure it out right here on earth. As Stephen Hawking suggests in his book "A Brief
History of Time," at the sea, we will first see the sails of a ship and then, when it approaches,
we will see the base. If the land had been flat, once it had left, the ship would have had to
shrink more and more until it had turned into an infinitesimal point. This is imagination.
People always ask „why?”and they try to answer the question.

The physicist Stephen Hawking, is a clear example that a human’s imagination has no
limits, regardless of his physical or medical condition.

Stephen William Hawking (1942 - 2018) was the former Lucasian Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and author of A Brief History of Time which is
an international bestseller. He was the Dennis Stanton Avery and Sally Tsui Wong-Avery
Director of Research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and
Founder of the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge, his other books for the
general reader include A Briefer History of Time, the essay collection Black Holes and Baby
Universe and The Universe in a Nutshell.

In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live.
Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at
Gonville and Caius College. From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor at
Cambridge, the chair held by Isaac Newton in 1663. Professor Hawking received over a
dozen honorary degrees and was awarded the CBE in 1982. He was a fellow of the Royal
Society and a member of the US National Academy of Science. Stephen Hawking is regarded
as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein.

BIBLIOGRPHY

 Atomic theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_theory

 Black hole - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole
 Universe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe
 Stephen Hawking - http://www.hawking.org.uk/

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