An incontrovertible truth of nature is birth and death. All that has life will perish. The earth is dying they say; citing the increasing pollution of air, water and soil as proof. In addition, there is the possible extinction of numerous species. That is accepting the proposition that death is destruction. However, if death is a transformation instead; how could the earth and creation itself end? The fundamental law of nature is the conservation of mass and energy. Einstein derived the equation energy is equal to mass times the square of the speed of light. Atoms prove the truth of it, converting mass to energy to bind protons in the nucleus without repulsion. Science fiction imagines the truth of it, inter-converting matter and energy to beam intrepid explorers from the transport room to the surface of an uncharted planet. Matter and energy are two halves of a whole, neither created nor destroyed but simply converted from one form to another. Birth and death are illusions shattered by a mathematical equation. Incontrovertible truth lies in numbers that can be rational and irrational, real and imaginary. Life is energy, the ability to do work and leave a legacy of a singular event when the ego is self-aware before being absorbed into the sea of consciousness that is the cosmos. Life on earth and the earth itself will not end, simply transform. Humanity will not end but evolve in time to a race more equipped to survive. A race more attuned with the rhythm of the stars, the dance of the sun and moon, and the shifting of the tides and breeze. There will be a race of angels to populate the new heaven and earth where philosophers can bask in contemplation of the one true light.
Very interesting...If we will based on scientific explanation of conservation of matter and energy, then everything is infinite, isn't it? So if we are going to cite on many examples of disappearance of things(i.e., dead organisms, conversion of gasoline to CO2 and Water, etc..)and the one you said "Interconverting matter and energy" then would it mean that a possibility of bringing back those disappeared things is possible? In simple sense, may be what you mean is, matter is transformed to energy and energy is converted to another form of energy etc, because we don't have reports yet of converting an energy to its original matter form.
ReplyDeleteYes i see your point, although when i say inter-conversion it does not have to be back to the original form of matter, it can be another form altogether. Anyway I have an escape clause, I did say emulation of the ancient Greek philosophers. Not all but most Greek thinkers are called armchair philosophers because they do not go out into the field or lab to verify or nullify their theories.
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Fascinating...I never really thought of what happens to us after death, in fact i haven't thought of death itself. But death is inevitable, though we surely can prolong our stay here on earth and hope that death does not visit us the soonest (knock on the wood--as beliefs would say. I am knocking though:-)
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I think a lot of us differ in views regarding this, probably because of our religious and cultural differences. But as an enthusiast of science myself i would like to agree with you in saying that "Life on earth and the earth itself will not end, simply transform". The place where our transformed form goes is probably what we deemed to call as "the heavens" where life begins again completing still the circle of life. Now that's a comforting thought, a better place to start all over again.
Thanks zmoj. May you find your comfort within yourself so that death, whenever it will come, will hold no fear for you.
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