Solar musings

 If only he could tell us...

Imagine you are the sun, wandering in the deep space roaming around the centre of the galaxy for billions of years, and wondering when will you be going to expand, and swallow the children and die, and then will start anew as a protostar, and what would happen then to the little creatures on the surface of your third child! Imagine what would he be thinking! Us humans are sending different observatories on the satellites and he must be proud that his children who have come a long way in a few hundreds of years.

Heliocentric ideologist Kepler

It was not long ago when these humans were believing that everything revolves around the earth! It has been very difficult to convince the people that contrary to the popular belief the sun doesn’t revolve around the earth, but it is the other way around. Kepler gave laws of universal planetary motion in the early seventeenth century. Even though they have their limitations, it was a path-breaking discovery. Science populariser Carl Sagan described Kepler as "the first astrophysicist and the last scientific astrologer.”

Heavily criticised Copernicus 

The other notable step towards the heliocentrism was by Copernicus. He claimed that there is no centre of the universe and earth is definitely not it. The centre for heavy bodies to fall is the earth’s centre, but that’s about it. He also claimed what appear to us as motions of the sun is not because he moves, but because the earth, with which we revolve around the sun like any other planet. The earth has, then, more than one motion. He was heavily criticised for these provocative statements. On the same path, Galileo was sentenced to a house arrest because of his beliefs against the church.

Sun thinks, surely, the human race has come a long way ahead in terms of scientific knowledge and understanding, and there is still a long way to go. The scientist who thinks

of some revolutionary idea or thinks actually out of the box is thought to be talking nonsense. He finds them to be ahead of their times. At the same time, he wonders, there are people who believe in the earth being flat, and vaccines killing people, and in recent times, the masks suffocating their civil rights! The sun is a simpleton, and he is confused that the same human race who sent probes towards him to understand him more, is fighting with each other about some perishable oil. The sun is confused!