Contemplation

 In short: you are a human being in this life.

Every human being has a different life.
Why should you worry about affairs that do not touch your daily life?
Nobody has practical benefits from astronomy, from theories of modern cosmology, from theories about elementary particles from theoretical physics.
Those theories do not pay for your rent, they don't buy food for your children, they don't end your daily worries.

You awaken and look up.
The sun rises, and the sun sets.
But just that is not true.
The sun doesn't rise and the sun doesn't set.
It is the earth that rotates around it's own axis.
That's why it looks like the sun rises and the sun sets.

The truth of your perception is not the truth of what really happens.
What you see is not always what is real.
It is always worth to think about more than only the everyday reality.
Even if that reality of your everyday life sometimes occupies and swallows you up so badly.

The following piece comes from a book called Herzog by the American writer Saul Bellow

"So, thought Herzog, acknowledging that his imagination of the universe was elementary, the novae bursting and the worlds coming into being, the invisible magnetic spokes by means of which bodies kept one another in orbit.
Astronomers made it all sound as though the gases were shaken up inside a flask.
Then after many billions of years, light-years, this childlike but far from innocent creature, a straw hat on his head, and a heart in his breast, part pure, part wicked, who would try to form his own shaky picture of this magnificent web".

( the Standard model of elementary particles; at the right are the force-carriers)

The scientists build particle accelerators such as cyclotrons, synchrotrons, etc.
It are particle accelerators that accelerate electrical particles and then lead them to a detection device wherewith “photos” or computer simulated data models are made of the "collisions" of the various particles.
The particles themselves you do not see.
You see the traces of those elementary particles.
The idea is to find proof for the theories of theoretical scientists.
Theoretical physicists have developed theories based on mathematics and known physics about elementary particles and how they relate to the four fundamental forces.
This is important for an understanding of the origin and evolution of matter and the universe as from the Big Bang when the universe is believed to have originated.
For instance are they looking for a specific elementary particle ,the so-called Higgs-Boson or also called the “God-particle”.
These theories, if proven, can change the view scientists may have on for instance the origin of the universe like in the “Big Bang” .
You can see them as sort of “laboratories” or gigantic “microscopes”.
For example at the European Centre for Nuclear Research - CERN at Geneva in Suisse (Switzerland) where the largest particle accelerator in the world was built.
It’s the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC) and it’s 27 kilometres long and 175 meters deep.

It’s runs underground partly in France and partly in Switzerland.

Your own vision is determined by all what you have been given as a child by your parents, your educators, other people in your environment, your peers, at school, in the street, on television and radio, during your growth to adulthood, etc.

Your ideas and views which you have been given can be permanent till your death.
But they might just as well change with the elapsing of time.
Thoughts, ideas and concepts on religion, on politics, on justice, on living
together during your life; they all can change.
Why would you stick to ideas and concepts which you have been given as a child, when at a later age you can come to discover that those ideas and concepts do not stroke with your own experiences, which you obtain while your own life ripples on.

You meet other people, perhaps from other sections of the population, perhaps from other countries.
The world is big and travelling to other countries does only broaden your spiritual and mental horizon.
There are so many other countries on the globe and so many other places where people live.
Those people live according to other norms and values.

They have other thoughts, ideas and concepts about





religion                        , politics, society, laws, etc.
Maybe then your own truth suddenly isn't really the only truth anymore as you might have always thought.
And if you are sensible and you are open-minded then you can change.

For instance:

Everyday life

You get up                , you go to bed

 



You sleep                      , you eat,                 you work,            







 you get an education .




You take care of your children                     you work hard for



Money                       to earn for the rent of your house
or the instalments of your debts, you live your old age in an


old people's home .

( April 2011 LHC collision traces; computer                                                              simulated data model)

    (control-room LHC)

(enormous detector of the LHC; see how tiny the man is)

(inside the LHC tunnel)

(inside the LHC tunnel)

( schematic representations of the various particle accelerators at CERN; the LHC being the largest)

(underground location and position of the LHC partly in France and partly in Switzerland; 27 kilometres long and 175 metres deep; notice that CERN lies in Switzerland )

(combined view of the geographical position of the LHC and the inside of the underground tunnel; 27 kilometres long and 175 metres deep)

(simple schematic representation of the so-called “Standard model of elementary particles; at the right are the force-carriers)

( schematic representation of the four fundamental forces in nature; gravitational, weak, electromagnetic and strong force)

( schematic representation of size of particles)

( schematic representation of the
size from crystal to string )>

( schematic representation of the size of particles; atoms are part of
molecules; atoms are formed of a nucleus and electrons moving around
the nucleus; the nucleus is formed of protons and neutrons; protons are
formed by quarks; strings are believed to be the constituents of electrons and quarks )

( schematic representation of several atoms;                                                           hydrogen has only 1 proton in it’s nucleus)

( schematic representation of size of particles; the molecule is the largest; the atom is part of the molecule; the nucleus is part of the atom and the smallest)

(simple atom representation; atom is formed by a nucleus and electrons
moving around the nucleus; the nucleus is formed by protons and
neutrons; the number of protons equals the number of neutrons in the nucleus except for the hydrogen atom which has 1 proton)

For instance:
 
Elementary particles

Large detection devices are build that must investigate how elementary particles are formed and how they relate to the four fundamental forces in nature.
Experiments take place to find proof of the existence of certain types of fundamental elementary particles such as the Higgs-boson.
The atoms, the electrons, the neutrons, the gravitons, the quarks, the bosons, the mesons, etc.
It are some concepts that are used in the world of elementary particle physics.

(representation of the evolution from ape-man to modern man; with a speculative bionic man added)

( representation of the evolution from ape-man to modern man with a speculative future-man added)

 (representation of the evolution from ape-man to modern man Homo Sapiens)

( evolution of skulls to Homo Sapiens; next to that are also the skulls of three monkeys )

The skulls of humanoid apes are dug up.

Fossil plants and animals are dug up.

They are dated with the help of modern equipment.
Because we want to know how old they really are.
 
Large skeletons of dinosaurs are dug up and displayed in museums.

( schematic representation of the evolution of animals)

And to confirm all that people dig in deserts and in mountains and valleys for remains from the history of all life on the earth.

(schematic representation of the evolution of the earth and life on earth)

(the 5-year voyage of the Beagle around the world with Darwin on board)

No God, who according to the bible creates everything in seven days.
No, something totally different was going on and had happened.
Live had slowly evolved which must have taken millions of years.

(Charles Darwin)

The doctrine of evolution.

For instance:

  (Austrolopithecus model; lived between
                                      3.9 million and 1.7 million years ago)

(Mesozoic plant and animal life; the Mesozoic era spans from 250 million to 65 million years ago and is divided in the Triassic period, the Jurassic period and the Cretaceous period, the Triassic being the oldest and the Cretaceous being the youngest period)

Till the apes and the first ape-men that change into humanoids from which modern man develops, evolves.

(gigantoraptor bird-like dinosaur)                                                

the plants and trees, etc.

( several different dinosaurs)

all the other life-forms, the birds,

( comparison of sizes of man and elephant and several dinosaurs)

the huge dinosaurs,

(Mesozoic era)

(Dunkleosteus)

the first amphibious creatures that go on land from the sea,

  Nothosaurus

the first sea animals,

The first unicellular animals >

(representation of the forming of DNA in the prime-ordial soup)

( representation of the forming of organic compounds in the evolution of the universe)

(representation of the origins of DNA in the evolution of the universe)

(representation of the forming of organic molecules from inorganic matter

and where at the surface in a sort of primeval soup the first life is formed.
From non-living (an-organic) chemical elements living (organic) creatures are formed.

then a planet around which an atmosphere forms

then the solar systems with the planets around a star

(gaseous clouds in the universe)

then stars and galaxies,

(gaseous clouds in the universe)

At first gaseous clouds,

For instance:


The origin of life

A cosmologist i.e. develops theories about the construction and nature of the universe.
Was it always like this?
That's what the followers of the Steady-State theory say.
Was there at first a primeval explosion or a "Big Bang" and moved everything away from one another after that and was everything so formed in the course of time?

(Voyager I space-probe and the disc with information about planet earth)

That's how people try to obtain an image of the universe with all sorts of means and observational instrumentsAll the information that is obtained from all those observational instruments is used by scientists to substantiate their theories or just to develop new theories.

Space-probes like the Voyager I are being send into space to make photo's of our planets and perform measurements and send all that data back to earth.
After that the probe will leave the solar system on it's way to another solar system.
We will not experience that anymore.
By that time we'll be long time dead

(VLA Very Large Array radio-telescope in New Mexico, USA)

There are radio-telescopes being built that capture and register and process the radio-waves from space.

(Observatory in Chile)

or send a large space-telescope like the Hubble Space Telescope in an orbit around the earth.

People build enormous telescopes on top of mountains

For instance:

Discovering the universe

Human Beings did always want to know how the universe works.

Comparable size of exo-planet Gliese 581

They may also have life of whatever kind

There are at least countless stars in our galaxy that are comparable to our sun and perhaps that there are also planets there similar like the earth.
One of those might be the exoplanet Gliese 581.

                                        Cluster of galaxies

Our solar system contains the earth which has life within the atmosphere

Cluster of galaxies

(spiral galaxy)

This spiral galaxy is only one sort of galaxy of multiple sorts of galaxies

  position of the sun in a spiral arm in our spiral galaxy

The sun is only a middle sized star which is located in a spiral arm of a spiral galaxy.

The planets rotate around the sun.

You are standing somewhere at a place on the earth.
The earth is only one of the planets in this solar system.

About this you can contemplate.
 
 

Another example:

Our place in the universe

The scientists themselves think that this "Human Genome Project" will cause a revolution in medicine.
But there are also numerous ethical, legal and social consequences attached to it.

Under supervision of the English chemist Frederick Sanger,
a project was started what was called the "Human Genome Project" and in 2001 a concept genetic blueprint was published.

If you chart all these, then in principle you have the blueprint of a human being.
A genome is the complete collection of the genetic material of an organism.
So of the human being it is called the human genome .

Chromosomes


Those chromosomes also contain the genes, these are the basic units of heredity.

In the human cell is a nucleus.
Inside that nucleus are 23 pairs of chromosomes.

Desoxyribonucleic Acid model

The DNA contains all genetic information of a human being.

And those cells contain the DNA  (desoxyribonucleic acid).

Is there the mind?



For instance:

The human genome

Every human beings exists of cells.

Like there has never been a neurosurgeon who sawed open a skull and seen or found or observed in the brain the "mind" or the "soul".

Inside the eyes is the retina and the retina-cells receive those
waves and change those into electric pulses and send those through the
optic nerve (nervus opticus) to that part inside the brain where "seeing" is determined .

There is an electromagnetic spectrum that encompasses all waves from ultra-short to long waves.
The visible part ( for human beings) is only a small part of it.
Your image comes as a bundle of visible electromagnetic waves to the eyes.
 
 

human eye

And yet there lies also the relativity.
What do I mean by that?

Take your eyes.
I see you.
How does that work?
 

The human senses.

Representations of how the ancestors of modern man looked like are presented to you.

Greetingssss Ron