This question is in the science text of an eight standard student. The answer: crackers explore as soon as they come in to contact with burning splinter or when pressure is applied on them. In the process, oxidation of chemicals in crackers takes place, at high speed. Large amount of gas is evolved with production of tremendous amount of heat, light and sound”. A Some what satisfying answer for the layman.
And now, back to our question, why do the sound ad light produced by exploding crackers gives a very special feeling/sensation of satisfaction and happiness. Let us to make some self revealing exploration.
We often find crackers are exploded on such occasions and festivals where some sort of religious sanctity is attached or some joyous occasion to celebrate a victory. We all know religion is faith, and also art and science of uniting individual soul with the Supreme Soul the source of all creations. Here, almost all religions of the world unanimously agree on one thing. The Source of all creations, the First Cause is One. The One which is Omnipotent, Onscience and Omnipresent. Bible says” In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (Chl Verse 1. t. John). This Word, according to Hindu scriptures is nothing but the mystical monosyllable sound. “Om”. Interestingly enough, the only one sensible theory and explanation of the creation of the Universe is also a “Big Bang”. That’s also sound (or Word) isn’t it. It is believed that the Universe came I to being in a highly dramatic event about 10,000 million years ago, when its total mass exploded out of a small primeval fire ball. According to this ‘bigbang” model, the moment of the bigbang marked the beginning of the Universe and the everexpanding universe was created. According to quantum physic, matter (or atom) is not as dense as we think. “The bodyor any chunk of physical matteris not as dense as we think. The atom we consist of is mainly empty pace. There I no argument about that. In fact, the fundamental building block of matter is not matter at all. It is light, or energy” (John G. Fuller in Edgar Cayce Answers Life’s 10 Mot Important Questions)
“Einstein was the first to point out that matter is not matter at all, it is more or less frozen light in the form of “Force fields”. Viewed that way, it is possible to picture the universe and all its Infinite photons as pure energy and hence as permeable as a beam of sunlight. Our dense bodies too, therefore, can be imagined as only a cloud of photons, a cloud of light that can move out to rejoin the First Cause as smoothly as two putty clouds merging to become one. (John G Fuller)
All mater is nothing but a continuous vibrations of atoms evolving out of photons light of different patterns colliding against each other forming never ending kaleidoscopic designs in the cycle of time and emerging back into light.
The compressed matter in the crackers shell explode when it comes in contact with fire and !o! it’s a miniature BigBang!. A duplicacy of the original BigBang that happened at the beginning of the Creation. And the same is the case with sparklers and flower pots. One is the sound and the other, light. The sound of the crackers touches the various energy centres of the body (Chakras) starting from the base of Spine (Mooladhara) via the Heart (Visudhi) to the top of the Head (Sahasra). The sleeping “Kundalini Shakti” is awakened temporarily and resonate through all the centres of the body. This vibration from sudden explosion touches the core of our inner being, and our soul is again stirred to a temporary awakening, yes, for a fraction of a second. It’s a sheer adventure in our homeward journey to merge oneself with the Supreme Self, the Source, that Supreme Light. In fact, all our efforts and exercises at the physical and mundane level are just to have the feel of that eluding Supreme Bliss and Existence. And we persevere day in and day out to achieve that perfect communion (Sharing) and yes, it’s what we call, sort of “Communication”.. Let’s perfect it!.
Guided positively, all’s well that means all’s well and ends well. It helps in creation. Creation of beauty and love. The Creation of joy. Negatively handled, it becomes the Bomb of destruction!
