Musings of an amateur astronomer

The Cosmic Egg and the Golden Womb: East and West Meet at the Origin of Everything In international marketing, we often search for patterns—cultural cues, historical insights, and philosophical worldviews that influence consumer behavior. One of the most striking patterns I’ve encountered is not in a market analysis or brand strategy session, but in cosmology itself. Two very different civilizations, separated by thousands of years and philosophies, arrived at an idea that feels remarkably similar. This idea—the universe began from a single point—can teach us not only about science or spirituality, but about how we communicate across cultures and time. Let’s explore this parallel between Georges Lemaître’s “Cosmic Egg” and the Rigveda’s “Hiranyagarbha”.    The Western Insight: Georges Lemaître and the “Primeval Atom” In 1931, Belgian physicist and priest Father Georges Lemaître introduced a revolutionary idea: the universe started from a primeval atom —a dense point that hel...