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A curious schoolboy was once told by his parents that the universe has neither beginning nor end; that it has always existed. That was the commencement of the boy's fascination with the world around him. As ritualistic Hindus seriously seeking security as immigrants in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and thereby multicultural, conglomeration of fellow Asians from various corners of that continent, his parents were not inclined to question what little they had been taught during their formative years among their own people about Man's place in the universe. After a lifetime of foraging casually in the wilderness of books about mankind, during which time the boy now turned senior citizen had battled for survival in yet another foreign land, he discovers a Hindu cosmology. This cosmology is somewhat complex. It too offers durability, but without stability.

Here's what the situation looks like to me: Like, I said I graduated college and moved back in my with parents. No one expected that I should find a full-time job immediately after graduating, but we all figured it would only be a matter of months. Actually, it didn't even take me that long. I found a pretty good job that I really liked and was in my field of study by July of the year I graduated. We all thought this was great. I would be making $30,000 to start, but I had full benefits and all the wonderful things that go with full-time employment.

This is a very difficult cosmology to accept, especially since our current civilisation is only about 8,000 years old. Were there many other human civilisations before this one?

In November of that year the 6 month grace period on my student loans ended and I suddenly remembered that I was $60,000 in debt. My payments were even higher per month than my half of the rent. Add in groceries, utilities, and other expenses and I was almost exactly breaking even... just barely keeping my head above water.

Modern cosmologists do not seem to refer to this paradigm, except that eminent science writers like Carl Sagan have commented favourably on the depth and breadth of the perspective offered. The prevailing view in the West upholds the Big Bang Theory. Yet, was not the Steady State Theory upheld not so long ago? Did not that theory offer both durability and stability in the heavens? However, The Hubble Telescope changed that explanation.

Egyptian Pyramids (Giza, Egypt): These massive constructions also apparently serve no real purpose. Why build a pyramid as a tomb for one, when for the same effort, you have a mausoleum for thousands of Egypt's upper crust! In any event, no smoking gun bodies (mummies) have been found in the trilogy of those great Giza pyramids. Tomb robbers after gold, jewels and other valuables are quite understandable; but of what value is nicking off with the corpse? In any event some lesser pyramids have had sealed sarcophagi discovered, original plaster in place; no bodies! Something is screwy somewhere - again! Perhaps the pyramids were really designed as cenotaphs - memorials to the dead pharaohs as opposed to tombs for the dead. Or perhaps the real or at least supplementary purpose(s) of the pyramids has yet to have been thought of.

There you have it. The universe explained in a way which cannot be tested - ever; or in a way which seems illogical - something from nothing! But then...... what if the Big Bang Theory is internally consistent with the Hindu Cosmology?