Imagine a situation or create an animation in your brain that there exists a very very deep well ( say about 600 m deep) and it is filled with water up to about 100 m. In the water there live very small fishes, they are so small that they can not even jump up to 2 m. The fishes are tiny and so small compared to the base of the well that they have no idea that even the well has boundary. To these fishes, the life outside the well is unimaginable. Neither do they know that they can not survive beyond water.
There are smarties everywhere, one day a very smart fish started thinking that if he can jump more than his limit or not. He had never tried that and he wanted to try. He could not do at the first few attempts but he kept on trying and after more than 100 attempts, the fish was able to get a bit higher than he used to get. He was surprised. It was easier than he had imagined to swim at the higher level. He told this to some of the other smart members and his friends and few of them could swim to the higher level of water but it took them a lot of time and even many fishes died and they also do not know how high is the water level. But the fish kept on wondering, something stuck to his brain and the smartest fish started thinking what might exist beyond. He started thinking that if there exist something else outside their universe (the 100 m deep water ) and he started analyzing if there exist the other universe.
He discussed with some other fishes and they all started thinking. They planned to make a small jet like device to reach up to the highest level possible. The smartest brain of the fishes gather together to build a much larger device than them that can fly and float up onto the surface of the water. After a long work and effort, they developed a small device, which they named as "fish-flier" that could take one or two fishes at a time to the higher level of water. At the same time they developed a small telescope that can see whats happening at higher level. Now, the smart fishes are not giving up; they want to explore and find out what exist beyond.
The first exploration of space by these fishes begun and they launched their first "fish-flier", that can go up to 20 m and that already gave the idea to those fishes that they can go far beyond that and it is not stopping there. They developed better telescopes that can view up to the surface of the water. And that was the most surprising point to them to see that there is no water beyond certain level and they wanted to reach to that point. After long effort, some smarties in the group are able to design an efficient and highly functioning fliers that can take a bunch of them to the water surface. Some of the fishes reached to the surface of the water and their mission was successful but the fishes when exposed to the air beyond water for sometime stopped breathing and some of them died while some of them quickly figured out that they could not survive beyond water and got back to the water.
This mission left the fishes with one of the greatest findings of their time. They were so happy to announce that there exist the other universe, there exist something beyond where they have been living. Now, they started exploring more and wondering more to go beyond. They know they would not survive there but they want to see and explore beyond their walls. The fishes soon built much more powerful telescopes and also a sealed rocket like devices which they named "fish-rocket", which can fly much faster than the fliers. Since the well is cylindrical, they could see only the hollow surface reaching to the mouth of the well.
Fish rockets were filled with water, because they had already discovered that was most vital for their life. They collected some wood and developed the propelling force. It really took a life time for a lot of the smart fishes to come up with the new ideas and discovery. They did a lot of experimentation and hit and trial. They studied the phenomenon occurring on the water level and on the surface beyond the water. Some of the fishes lived on the surface of the water for a long time and sent results to the ones who were developing devices at the bottom.
One day while observing via the telescope, one of the fishes saw some birds flying above the well. They looked so blurred but he immediately recognized that there is life beyond their universe and the fish started crying and bursting out "EUREKA", "EUREKA". The fish is now the greatest celebrity, he discovered that the life exists beyond their boundary, life exists beyond their universe and soon they found that the UNIVERSE is much bigger than they knew previously. The space exploration mission kept on improving on the base of the well. Many fishes are highly concentrated on the life beyond the well.
With the knowledge they have and their constant effort and exploration, finally the fishes made a very stable device that could fly much higher and also on the air not only on the water. By then they had also discovered the walls of the well to rest the device they had discovered. The devices, they invented took them many days and after many days, finally three smart fishes reach the top surface of the well and they are still praised at the bottom of the well. To their surprise, the fishes were so amazed to see that a much much bigger surface exists beyond, much much bigger animals exist beyond and whatever they call universe is just a very very very smallest part of what is beyond.
The fishes could sense and they started living there on the surface but on their sealed device as long as they contain water. Soon they developed a technique to refill the water and started living on the surface easily. Now the fishes are learning more about this new universe and they got to know about the so called smartest creature- the human beings. To their wonders, the fishes found out that the earth is so huge but the human beings are still exploring very hard to go beyond their boundary because they have already found that there exist another huge universe, much bigger than this earth. The fishes laughed, "that might be true"- they thought.
The fishes were smart enough, they thought they made a huge leap to discover a new universe but what goes beyond is infinite. They took a deep breathe and realized that this keeps on continuing and they could not imagine the vastness of the universe. What fish considered infinite was just a very very tiny fraction for human, what human considered infinite might be a very very tiny fraction for superhuman and what superhuman considered infinite might be a very very tiny fraction for super super human. We do not know till date who are these super human but we are sure that the infinite chain exists and it continues existing.
The constant effort of fishes are praiseworthy and their exploration was praiseworthy. Even though it makes no value to human, it makes a lot of meaning to the fishes who live deep under the well. It is the same to us, though our discovery makes no meaning to the someone else who already know that we exist, it makes a lot of meaning to us and let us not stop exploring. Exploration is what keeps us going.
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