God's Headquarters: How is Everything Created? AUDIOBOOK

Chapter 1: Aydin’s Curiosity and the first level of Zoology

Where did everything come from? Who am I? How was I created? Why did I come to this world? Why was it created? Where was everything created? How are planets created? Are we alone? How does life persist? How many creatures are there in universe besides us? How does the Creator manage all of it? Is He perfect? Can He make a mistake?

There had been so many questions in Aydin’s restless mind since he had first been aware. And he wanted to have answers to them all. His curiosity always urged him to more inquiries, but in Aydin’s mind the Creator himself could answer. He had to find a way to ask the Source. But how?

In 2019, Aydin was a nineteen-year-old, science student. He had always been a difficult child with difficult questions for his teachers, his parents, his friends, and everyone else. He had questions for himself, too. He got answers, but he was never satisfied. They seemed so superficial. He wanted logic behind every piece of knowledge he gained.

He wanted to understand how everything worked. He could not accept that such a perfect planet like Earth could result from mere coincidence piled on coincidence as it relied on so many small variables like the shape, and composition of the planet,plus the right proportion of gases in the atmosphere, the moon . . .

Aydin speculated constantly about the knowledge he had. The universe seemed so precise. What if it wasn’t?

He wondered how come the Earth was just the right size. What if it were twice the size? Would we weigh twice as much? Would the moon be further away?

What if it was half the size? Could it hold an atmosphere? Would the oceans boil away? Could anything live on the surface?

The Earth’s speed of rotation drives the geomagnetic field, weather patterns and the circulation of the oceans. During a year, our planet completes a full rotation on its axis — which runs from the North Pole to South Pole — every 24 hours, spinning at a rate of about 1,040 mph (1,670 km/h) at the equator,

What if Earth rotated more slowly? Our days and nights would be longer. Would weigh more, with less centrifugal force? Would equatorial seas flow towards the poles?

And what if it rotated twice as fast? we’d have a 12-hour day instead of a 24-hour day. But would there be more earthquakes? Would rising sea levels submerge Indonesia or turn Africa into two disconnected islands? Would there be stronger hurricanes?

What if the Earth rotated in the opposite direction? Would sand dunes replace the Amazon rainforest? Would the Middle East be a lush breadbasket?

What if it stopped rotating completely? Would the Earth change shape? Would there be a habitable zone? Would anyone survive?

To Aydin, so many things seemed to be just the way they had to be. ‘Trial and error’ was not an option.

The stable 23.5 ͦ tilt of the Earth’s axis exposes most of the planet to the sun’s heat, making most of its surface habitable.

The uneven distribution of land means the northern summer sees much more of the sun’s energy hitting land, while a southern summer sees most of the sun’s energy directed into the oceans.

The moon, with its pulling effect on earth, gives us high and low tides. Without tidal forces powering ocean currents, equatorial water would heat up while polar waters would freeze. Marine life would perish as it relies on ocean currents which recirculate oxygen from top to bottom and bring nutrients rich water to top.

Earth has a molten core powering an electromagnetic field. Besides protecting us from solar storms, the magnetosphere allows insects, marine animals and birds to navigate.

The ozone layer, or ozone shield, absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation, which otherwise might damage exposed life near the surface.

Botanic life absorbs billions of tons of carbon each year and stores half the planet’s rainwater — recirculating water from the forest floor back into atmosphere to make more rain. That’s the water cycle. And our Sun has just the right temperature to power it.

The Earth is in the “Goldilocks” zone of our galaxy. Closer to the center, cosmic rays would cause organisms to mutate or die.

Earth’s rotation produces different time zones without which we would be much less productive. In present circumstances, at any given time, millions of people can be active while others sleep.

Our Sun, with its strong gravity, keeps all the planets in their proper orbits. Jupiter also has a strong gravitational force which tends to protect the inner planets of the solar system from incoming comets or asteroids.

Energy intrigued him, thinking of the Sun’s atomic fission and fusion. How much energy was stored in an atom? On the human scale, he found, it’s a very tiny release of energy. The energy produced by the fission of one atom of U-235, if it could be turned completely into electricity, would be enough to light a one-watt light bulb for about one-thirtieth of a nanosecond whereas one firefly flash needs the energy stored in 200,000 U-235 atoms.

The Earth has just the right balance of gases with 20% oxygen to 78% nitrogen. If too there was much more oxygen, trees would grow to gigantic sizes. Small sparks could cause huge fires, so all our current machines and stoves would be uncontrollable when used. We would only need to breathe 5-6 times per minute. We would be deficient in blood carbonate ions. Lichen and sea algae would overgrow. Most anaerobic microorganisms would be extinct. Iron and other metals would corrode after exposure to air, so all metallic inventions before stainless steel would be completely impossible.

A recycling system, known as the ‘Nitrogen cycle’, recycles all life living on, above and inside the Earth. Atmospheric nitrogen is converted to ammonium, then into nitrates by bacterial life forms in the soil. Nitrates are then absorbed by plants to make amino acids, DNA, RNA and chlorophyll. Other lifeforms consume the plants and make proteins with amino acids. When they die, they decompose to ammonium which is then converted by bacteria to nitrogen and released back into the atmosphere.

Aydin concluded that, in a similar way, all life accumulates energy by absorbing external energies into its subatomic structures. When an organism is consumed, its stored energy is absorbed by the consumer, and waste is released back during digestion process. Even the leftover and unused matter excreted still has some energy which can be absorbed by other microorganisms in conjunction with insects like earthworms, ants, dung beetles converting the feces of larger creatures into a finer form of organic matter so it can be absorbed back up by plants and trees.

Remove or tweak any of the variables and there would not be none of this interdependent life as we know it on this planet Earth.

On the other hand, Aydin could not envisage human life as being the center of all this precision. He saw that any planet containing the necessary ingredients within the habitable zone from its star had the potential for life. And whereas hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and carbon are essential for hominids, there could other forms of life elsewhere.

According to a theory called ‘Panspermia”, primordial microbes may have hitched a ride on a comet that crashed into Earth, or they could have arrived in nanocraft brining the message of life in their DNA.

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Aydin’s parents fretted from time to time about their bookish son, his speculations, and his endless inquiries. They were concerned about his religious orientation, too. Their own beliefs were conservative and traditional. They had no questions about God; they had no questions for God. God had given the world His teachings clearly enough for them. They were afraid when Aydin questioned their beliefs or disputed them.

However, Aydin was simply curious. He believed in a Creator. He was sure the universe was not random or the result of a ‘big bang’. There must be some personal force behind this complexity. He didn’t deny anything learned from religion. He wanted reasoning in everything, and worried about whether he would be able to find answers to his questions.

Aydin was a dedicated student of science, and curiosity was ingrained in his personality. Along with his fascination with science, he also had a strong interest in religions — discovering similarities and differences among religious books and their interpretations of God. He figured out why people make their children study history and other facts during the first few years of their formal and religious education: they are inculcating their centuries of culture, values, and written knowledge, into the younger brains to be forwarded to future generations, preserving them indefinitely. His discussions with classmates also used to boost his curiosity. Some of his friends might say, “God is not real. It’s all science, and God is just like Santa Claus.” Is it so? he used to ask to himself. And this question would push him to explore further how all religions explained God’s existence, and His creations. Aydin was not capable of blind faith. He wanted to experience and meet God in person.

He also used to ask his teachers to explain how they thought God had perceived different species, and how the creatures created by a sole Creator came to be so different. But unfortunately, the answers from his teachers would never satisfy his thirst for understanding. He always rejected the answer that everything was God’s will. He thought that God must be rational as well. He used to say, “God cannot have created such a huge universe and a wide range of beings without any purpose. There must be a proper science, system, and methodology. He must have some solid reason to create Earth, its life forms and the universe it sits in.”

His mom and dad had told him several occasions, that we could meet God through meditation if we did it between the hours of four and five in the morning. And that made him think that he should try that and see if it could enable him to meet ‘God’ the Almighty Creator of everything. In a state of hopelessness, he used to talk to himself in solitude. “I must do it because I must seek answers for myself.” He often had sleepless nights thinking the same thoughts repeatedly. He started to meditate regularly without his parents’ knowledge, and his determination made him believe that he would succeed in meeting God one day. At last after several nights of practice, a time came in his life which he could never have anticipated.

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He had been practicing meditation for more than a month. One night, he had slept a bit late. He felt strange. He got up to look around, but suddenly, it was as if he was rising above his bed involuntarily. He tried to see what was going on around him, and just then an extremely bright light shone in front of him. It made him temporarily blind. He got nervous. “Am I going to die? Has the angel of death come to take me?” he murmured to himself without understanding what was going on. He had heard of people having strange, near-death experiences.

Soon, the light began to dim, and he saw two egg-shaped objects floating towards him from a silvery spiral tunnel that went up through the ceiling and into the sky. Both stopped near him. A bright red ball of light shone inside one of the shells, and he heard a voice coming from it.

“Hello. I am Ridz. I am the Creator’s Li-Bot. I have come from above to fulfil your wish according to His orders.”

Aydin was totally speechless. He was confused. Was it a time to be happy or sad? Or was it his end? What wish was Ridz talking about? He knew but could not believe his ears. Had Ridz really been sent by the Creator?

“What wish are you talking about? I don’t understand who you are? and what are you here for?” Aydin asked Ridz.

“You wanted to visit the Creator to find the answers to your questions about your existence and how He makes his creations. I have come from the Creator’s Headquarters to take you along for a visit. You can see everything on your own and find your answers,” said Ridz

“You are taking me along with you into the sky, to God’s Headquarters? How is it possible?” Aydin repeated his words without believing them.

“Yes, I have received orders that you are permitted to visit His Headquarters so you can see everything with your own eyes, by that I mean your eyes in an energy-based form,” said Ridz.

“Do I have to die first? How can a living being go to God’s Headquarters? I had always thought that he would meet me in my dreams or when I was dead.” Aydin was still in a state of shock.

Ridz laughed pleasantly. “Of course not. All you asked for was the chance to see everything with your own eyes and understand how creations are designed at the Headquarters. That is why I have come by God’s will to help you to fulfil your wish.”

This made Aydin relax a little. He was alive and could go to the sky without the need to die. “What is this empty eggshell-like cabin for?’ Aydin asked Ridz.

“This is for you to travel with me to the sky.” Ridz told him.

He asked Aydin to get inside that empty eggshell, which was the size of a chicken egg. Aydin thought that Ridz must be joking because it was too small for him to fit inside, but Ridz was serious.

“Please look at your reflection in the mirror. You will understand what I am telling you,” said Ridz.

Aydin quickly ran towards his wardrobe mirror to check if he had become transparent, but he could not see any reflection there.

“I am not talking about that mirror. This mirror, please.” Ridz pointed towards his reflection in his shell’s external glass, where Aydin saw himself as a tiny ball of white light.

Aydin was really frightened to see that, and he felt quite sure now that he had died as he had also seen his body lying on the bed, whereas in his mind he was floating in front of Ridz. The boy really panicked and hovered right and left, up and down, without knowing what to do, although Ridz already told him that he did not have to die to travel to the sky.

Ridz told him to calm down and get into the shell so he could go and visit the Creator’s Headquarters. He also told Aydin that he would return to his body soon after returning from the visit. Upon hearing this, Aydin was relieved and became excited that his dream coming true. He entered the eggshell immediately.

* * * * *

Just in a blink of an eye, he was on a strange place, a massive area that he could not identify. He was sure that he had never seen that place before. All he could remember was that Ridz locked both the shells together and asked him to hold on as they were about to travel faster than the speed of light. The boy noted that they had stopped halfway through the tunnel, and the rest of the vertical tunnel was going above far beyond until it disappeared.

He asked Ridz, out of curiosity, what material the Headquarters were made of.

“It’s a combination of different forms of particles like photons, waves, energies and forms of matter and non-matter beyond your species’ understanding.” Ridz said

“I knew light was also a particle as its dual nature of ‘both a particle and a wave’ has been demonstrated on our planet,” the boy said upon discovering what the Headquarters were built from.

“Why have we stopped here? The tunnel is still going up. Isn’t it the middle of the path?” he asked

“We stopped here to show you how the Creator’s Headquarters operates, and this is the ground level. There are seven more levels above it connected via the central portals separating each level from the others, accessed only via the central elevator, and each level has different types of creation designed, manufactured, and granted permission to live in their allocated worlds. You will see each of the levels, one after the other,” Ridz explained in detail.

Aydin became glad. “So today is my lucky day. It’s the time to reap the fruit of my curiosity. Today is the beginning of exploration.” It was a level of happiness unimaginable before that day.

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Ridz opened the elevator, and they got off at the ground level. The floor was fluffy, as if there was nothing at all. Then he remembered that he was also not in his flesh-and-blood form at that time.

Aydin was trying to understand the place while standing on the ground level. He asked Ridz, “What is the function of this level?”

“This is the level called the Sorting Facility. Each soul ever created and granted life in the universe has to go through it first under a specific category,” Ridz explained to him.

Aydin could not understand anything at all.

“They are sorted into three categories, and each of those categories is identified by its own color,” Ridz continued. “The first category are sent to the top level to be with the Creator after seeing and exploring all the other levels. The second category are provided with a chance to improve their ratio of good to bad deeds by working in the office. If they perform their task well, they can also move to the top level to meet the Creator after visiting the other levels.”

He was listening to this detail with keen interest. “What about the third category?” he asked Ridz.

“This is the group with the poorest ratio of good to bad deeds. They will be sent to hell to be punished and kept locked there for eternity, never getting a chance to become one with the Creator,” Ridz told him.

He was confused. “How can separation be a punishment for souls with bad ratios?” he asked.

“There must be someone or something that they love the most during their material life and that they would give up anything not to lose. It could be their parents, partners, children — anyone or anything they might bond with unconditionally If they are separated from them, it will cause them immense pain and suffering,” said Ridz

Aydin was positive now. “Well, I can relate now with one of my experiences. When I was very young, I got separated from my parents for three hours, when we went on a hike in the jungle. I felt like I would never see my parents again and would die there in vain. I can definitely understand now how separation can be used as a punishment,” Aydin said.