Thursday, August 13, 2009

Spectrum of Natural Phenomena

One very observed consequence of modern mind is recognition of spectrum in all phenomena happening in nature. It means that when you single out a class of inter-related events in nature you can infer that those come in a full spectrum. You can see it in very weakest form. Then you can see it in stronger form. Then you move towards more stronger and at last it become very dominant to the extreme. Usually you start to categorise the phenomena at hand. At first different types inside the class seems to become separated easily and strongly but when you want to start to describe them then individuals of each category show border line characteristics that blur their boundaries with the neighbouring category and defuse together the lines that you have drawn to separate cases. For instance, in their chart, among chemical elements you say this group of elements are halogens. They are not metal and they are in gaseous form, aha except bromine which is liquid. And now you have another halogen which is solid and you become happy that bromine is transition from gaseous halogens to solid halogens. Yes iodine is solid but not as solid as iron. Even for attributing the modifier "solid" you cannot sharply categorize ideas. Iodine is solid but it easily sublimes due to the partial pressure of its surface layers that do not satisfy a sharp definition of solidness. It is solid but it shows characteristics of a gas besides, as you expect from a halogen. It is this and it is that. Then again there is another halogen, astatine, if we could have it enough we could not say halogens are non-metals. Astatine is a complete metal and you can imagine that any halogen a layer after astatine is as metal as iron. If you study that little place that you call the chart of chemical elements all the laws of nature until the end of the world are outlined from the view point of philosophy of science. You start from the element then you have to modify every attribution, and attributions of attributions need to be modified again and at the end you are at the beginning. You have one hundred items and one hundred types, only vaguely categorised in groups perhaps just to satisfy a taste. They are all different from each other as they should and they come in a full spectrum from the lightest to heaviest and each item has attributions that again cannot be described comprehensively with a fully agreed phrasing. You only compromise for the practicality: to be practical and pass to another stage. You draw the curtain back but behind the curtain there is no news; there is only another curtain. The satisfaction comes from drawing the curtain and from the fact that human lives span but for a short moment in the life of the material world and he has not a goal of understanding the entire creation and the truth of the world but likes to solve the problems of living with less fear and hardship while he is alive. He is pragmatic all the way. The beauty of the world and appreciation of its ultimate truth only remains for god, and human to get rid of this qualm assumes that such a being exists who in surrogacy is capable of such an endeavour. But there comes moments in the life of any human that he hears a voice, a sweet melody, from afar that invites him to something unknown and something familiar and something very sweet and something lost that he craves to feel and see and hear and touch and taste and embrace and he knows that none of these feelings are helpful for him to satiate that crave and to quench that thirst.

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