Even in this century it was believed that ours was the only galaxy, whereas Asian sages long before the time of Christ had intuited correctly that the galaxies numbered in the billions, and that universal time was beyond all apprehension: more than four billion years was but one day in the existence of their Creator and His night was of equal length, and all this was no more than “a twinkling of the eye of the immutable, immortal, beginningless Lord, the god of the Universe”. In the Rig Veda, an oscillating universe is conceived to be expanding from a centre—this is consistent with the “Big
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