posted March 05, 2014
2-Context and Perspective
Do you know where are you at?
Do you know where are you going?
Do you know where you came from?
The correct answer is NO,NO and NO.
You don’t know, I don’t know, nobody does.
All of us, some 7 billion people piggyback a rocket planet called Earth, which hurls through space time at about 50 miles per second,rotates on its axis at more than 5 times the top speed of Indianapolis 500, completes one circle around the Sun in 365 days, and the whole Solar System completes one circle around the center of the Milky Way in about 250 million years.
The Milky Way, according to cosmologists,contains between 100 and 200 billion stars and God knows how many planets, a supermassive black hole lurks at its center, and the Milky Way’s diameter stays steady at about 100,000 light years thanks to dark matter.
The visible Universe (about 4%) contains about 200 billion galaxies and space time pushes them away from each other at an accelerating rate (dark energy).
We live, act and interact in the Electromagnetic Field, and most likely in a Supersymetric World. The running of the coupling constants will determine that, according to James Sylvester Gates.
What all that has to do with us? In a word “everything”. We all are a part of the Universe,we are made of the same “stuff”. Everything in the Universe is made of atoms,and all this mind-boggling variety is the end-product of different combinations of the 92 naturally occurring atoms. The Atom is key to the Cosmos, according to Jim Al-Khalili.
The Universe works because of some 20 universal constants that do not change over time. If one constant is tweaked all hell will break up, and the Universe will cease to exist as we know it, according to Brian Green. In addition to the constants, the Universe follows some fundamental principles/laws and they are balance and symmetry, has anyone heard of “Supersymmetry or “Susy”?
Ladies and Gentlemen reflect for a moment where we/the earth fit in the grandeur of the Universe!!!!!!!!! That is perspective.
Context is when you know where you stand in relation to your immediate environment. It’s like the GPS, it tell you you are here and not there or over there. So, if you want to go from here to anywhere, around the corner or around the globe, you are confident you are going to hit your mark, you will arrive at your destination.
I am using the GPS example as a metaphor. We need both the smartphone (context) and the satellite (perspective) to work in harmony, if we want to get to our destination.
We need to know where we stand and adopt the laws of the Universe,if we are to succeed in life.If we do not,we will be lost in the sea of uncertainty. Balance and Symmetry are two of the fundamental laws of the Universe.I will expand on them when I get to the Economy. By the way,has anyone seen the Economy? What does she look like?
Margaret Thatcher once said “there are no societies,just individuals”. To paraphrase her comment I say “there is no one economy but several. The Political,Consumer, Financial, Cyber and Productive Economies”. The Productive Economy feeds and protects the Nation. The others affect it at times beneficially and at times not.
On my next blog I will deal with our Political Process, which has become unbearably expensive, divisive and at times vicious. There must be a better way to skin a cat, and cat stands for catfish.
On my previous blog I asked “What governs the World?” Here is my answer:”Ideas govern the world”. Ideas coalesce into beliefs which coalesce into religion, religion shapes the culture and culture permeates into political, economic and social systems of a country. I wish everyone a hopeful day.
Paul Pantelis Rachmanides