By: B. BERKELIEV
Greed, money and power are one in their essence. Over the past 100 years this triad has subjugated the greatest of minds and even the science. Greed ruling over reason is illogical, not to mention, calamitous. If the self-destruction mechanism is embedded in our nature and channelled through the select members of our kind , then do we also possess in us the brakes of self-preservation…
As the tempest rages, the sailor curses and fights. But as the sailor sinks, his lips are in prayer.
After physicists split the nucleus of an atom and detonated the first nuclear bomb in the middle of last century, we were convinced that science had pretty much figured out how the Universe works and the natural laws by which our world operates.
We all know that light is the fastest thing in nature, travelling at 300,000 kilometres per second. In the blink of an eye, light can whiz around our planet 7.5 times, or make a return trip from Calgary to Edmonton 500 times. Such speeds don’t quite fit inside the human imagination since we don’t deal with them in everyday life. But if you decided to gift your boo a trip to the Moon, you could hop onto a photon (a light particle) and reach the Moon in about 1 second. You could even reach Mars faster than Elon Musk – in 3 minutes, to be exact.
A journey on the same photon to the end of the visible Universe would take a bit longer: about 90 billion years. Isn’t it mind-blowing that all that gargantuan space, filled with countless galaxies, including our Milky Way – exists and functions according to the natural laws described in our physics textbooks?
Let’s get back to the Milky Way. Its diameter is approximately 100,000 light years. When we look at the night sky, we see the glow of the stars which they’d emitted tens, hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of years ago. Some of those stars have long died and don’t exist anymore, yet we get to admire them to this day. As shown by scientists, at the very centre of our Milky Way is a supermassive black hole, which with its monstrous gravity, like a funnel, consumes our entire galaxy. Our Sun in a stream of myriad other stars (around 400 billion), along with our planet Earth, is spinning within that same funnel, headed for the unknown.
By the way, the Sun with its planets is located in a highly comfortable oasis of the Milky Way, in a relatively calm space between the two tongues of the galactic spiral. Had it not been for such a favourable location, there would simply be no life on Earth. And in this comfortable position, we’re flying through the cosmos at 220 kilometres a second, circling the centre of our galaxy – the supermassive black hole – in 230 million years. A sports car can easily make 220 kilometres per hour – well, that’s cool but our Earth does that in 1 second. Freaky numbers to comprehend. A merry-go-round just for the adults – spinning with the Sun around a black hole at 220 kilometres per second.
Now let’s go to the “children’s” merry-go-round and spin around the Sun at 30 kilometres per second – this is the speed with which the Earth travels around the Sun through its orbit, making one full rotation in 365 days, 6 hours and 9 minutes. As it turns out, the Earth flies around the centre of the galaxy at 220 km/s, around the Sun at 30 km/s, and on top of these, even manages to rotate on its axis in 24 hours. And all these dizzying movements happen with the precision of a Swiss watch according to the rules of nature described in our textbooks as the laws of physics.
Next, let’s look at the microworld – what the whole world around us is made up of, and we ourselves too. One of the tiniest building blocks of this world – an atom – is so shockingly tiny that if we place an atom next to a Loonie (Canadian Dollar) and 200,000,000x magnify them, then the Loonie would be as big as Canada and the atom – as big as the Loonie.
And oddly enough, the inside of an atom is similar to our Solar System or our galaxy – at the centre of an atom is its heavy nucleus and it’s orbited by flying electrons. And if on the scale of galaxies, stars and planets, the primary acting force is gravity – then in the microworld the relevant acting forces are nuclear and electromagnetic.
The rapid growth of technology makes it evident that humanity has uncovered almost all of the secret laws of Mother Nature. Human beings are made up of the very same atoms that make up the rest of nature. Every tiny particle in the human body exists and functions according to the laws of the Universe. The human environment, which for millions of years has affected their formation and development, is also bound by the strict rules of the Universe. A human being is in the middle between the limitlessness of the larger Universe and the unfathomably tiny universe that even makes up the human being itself. And both of these worlds follow strict uniform laws.
So, if the whole of the Universe, which has created Man, and the entire microworld, of which Man consists – are interconnected and bound by strict laws, why is it that Man’s life should go by in chaos and not obey any laws?
I don’t mean sociological laws, or those of power and state, which differ for countries and cultures. I mean common laws for the whole of humanity, for all people. Like the laws of gravity or electricity. Whatever ideology a person believes, whatever religion they profess, whatever nationality they hold, and whatever gender they have – if they choose not to believe in the law of gravity and jump from an airplane with no parachute, they will still turn into organic fertilizer, whether they like it or not.
And if the whole world is integrated into a person with its own laws, and they are a part of that world, then logically a community of people cannot exist without rules.
When we find out that the annual turnover of drugs is $800 billion, and that someone has earned that money and put it in the bank at one point or another, it would seem that humanity lives without rules.
When we learn that over the past 20 years, humanity has spent $35 trillion on war, destruction, and murder and that someone has also earned that amount and put it in a bank at one point or another, it would seem that humanity lives in the absence of rules. But the beneficiaries of all the beneficiaries – are the leaders of structures that trade in the main commodity, to which all the people of the world are addicted – and that is money. And in accordance with the principle “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, the owners of this big money are addicted to it more than anyone – they’re ready to risk the lives of not only all mankind but also the planet itself. With power and propaganda, you can always lobby for any action that’s motivated by blind greed, such as unregulated extracting of natural resources, construction of harmful productions, poisoning of the soil, the air, rivers and of our oceans, the deliberate spread of contagions and the consequent sale of vaccines to cure them, wars … And here, it seems humanity lives without any rules at all.
But no, all of these seemingly unreasonable and destructive actions are actually fairly consistent with human nature. Man is egocentric by nature, exploiting the entire universe for himself as part of his innate tendency. In a philosophical sense, life and egoism are equivalent. Scientists have ironically named us Homo Sapiens. In nature, this egoism is called entropy.
Entropy is a measure of chaos. According to one of the fundamental laws of the Universe, which is called the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Entropy always increases, which means that chaos always grows. Since the Big Bang, for 14 billion years, even the Universe has been operating in accordance with this law – constantly expanding, spreading chaos, and capturing and filling new horizons.
Now let us consider the Sun. For almost 5 billion years, the Sun has been radiating its energy outward in the form of light and corpuscular particles, filling with them all the space that surrounds it. Why doesn’t the Sun, inside which billions of nuclear bombs detonate at one time – explode in different directions and expend all of its gargantuan energy into the void of outer space, seeing as the law of Entropy requires it? It is because there are other – equally powerful – laws that restrict the Sun from causing such chaos: the force of gravity and the magnetic field, which exist according to other, i.e. their own laws.
And what are these laws which can oppose the spread of chaos? Nature has these laws, and we can talk about them in more detail another time. But what’s important to understand here is that for a human being, who is an undeniable part of this Universe, and who possesses an innate egocentrism that pushes him to exploit the Universe itself – even for him there are restrictive laws – ones he can’t deny, or escape, try as he might.
But firstly, let’s ask these questions:
– If the whole Universe before the Big Bang (14 billion years ago) was a singular point, who brought it to this point?
– Who, 5 billion years ago, compressed the Sun into a small clump before setting fire to its billions of nuclear bombs like a fireplace?
After all, if someone initially gathered the Universe or the Sun into his fist, then he has contradicted one of the main laws of the Universe – the law of Entropy. And who was that, exactly?
In our “own” star, as in any system, there are forces of chaos that coexist with restraining forces. When this balance is disturbed, the system collapses and the star explodes. Astrophysicists call this phenomenon a “Supernova”.
So what exactly is this restraining force that reduces chaos in nature, and which was able to oppose the law of Entropy of the Universe and compress it at one point into the size of a tennis ball? Of course: either the totality of the laws of the Universe, or God. So what – or, who – is it that’s trying to tame the congenital egocentrism of Man, so that he doesn’t destroy himself and his planet? Answer: either the totality of the laws of the Universe, or God.
Whichever one it is, its restraining laws have been reported in the course of history in a form comprehensible to humans, by visionaries – basically, people who were super in touch with their intuition and who were called colloquially “prophets”. And the force that opposes the destructive egocentrism of a human being was named by it: “love”.
After all, if the power of love’s influence on humanity wanes, and the balance of egocentric and restraining vectors is violated in favour of the former, then the Earth, seated in its unique cosmic oasis, will face the fate of a Supernova…
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