a train of thought

Energy, mass, matter, momentum, charge… they are just a few elementary quantities from the lexicon of physics. So different if you take their worldly meanings, but so similar if you consider them as something beyond their usual concepts. They are all physical quantities that can be measured and in this world, they always thrive as “the always conserved” quantities. Their amounts in the whole universe remain conserved. A constant throughout eternity, just static and stagnant-stuff that never change… but I’d always thought that everything changes. After all, nothing is permanent and plausible but change; right?
My physics sir once said-these concepts take you nearer to the ultimate, the supreme; what some would call God. Imagine, science, which usually shows the big finger at religion, actually takes you nearer to God. But I love the idea. Through science, towards God.
When people began dividing things, they reached to the atom, which they considered the indivisible, non-creatable, and indestructible. But then as a blow to Man’s pride, came the neutrons, protons and the electrons. But then came the gluons, quarks and all the other divisions of the atom. Now the electrons have been promoted to the position where the atom once was long back. Maybe one day, they will be demoted and another particle will take their place. The fact that such a big universe has such tiny specks of particles which cannot even be predicted is itself a big ultimate truth and the mysteriously gnawing pain is that we going farther and farther away from the truth by reaching nearer and nearer to the basics. Just as we feel we’ve reached our goal, some new discovery is made which demolishes all our previous beliefs and we somehow end up in square one. But then Man is as curious as a cat, so we keep trying and thinking and finding. Maybe one day, we will get to it, get it right…
Maybe, science is the pathway to the superior...