8^th Century Indian Samhyka Philosophers

The universe expands and contracts with each breath of Brahmin. All things perish after each cycle. Atoms dissolve into the primeval pure waters of eternity, and are re-born with the next cycle. Indian Samhyka philosophers of the 8th century BC describe space condensing out of the void, followed by air condensing from space.  The Hindu Rig-Veda (Hymn of Creation, Book X,  v. 129) describes how the gods were created after the universe itself came into existence, indeed, even the gods seem not to know of their own existence,

 "He, the very origin of this creation, whether he formed it all or did not form it....He knows it, or perhaps He knows it not..."

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"Five Year Microwave Sky" - The detailed, all-sky picture of the infant universe from three years of WMAP data. The image reveals 13.7 billion year old temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) that correspond to the seeds that grew to become the galaxies. The signal from our Galaxy was subtracted using the multi-frequency data. This image shows a temperature range of ± 200 microKelvin.  View full-size image.  Internal Linear Combination Map, Galactic coordinates, Mollweide projection. Linear scale from -200 to 200 uK. Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Science Team, NASA.