my life is like an atom… a random, chaotic event…
it appears, it last X amount of time, then disappears…
think about history… exactly how many people have actually
somehow influenced history? for most people, the vast number of
human beings that has existed in history, they were born, they lived
and they died… no different then atoms…but because of the
other stuff which we call cities and ism’s and ideologies and history,
we don’t see ourselves as atoms…we see ourselves as part of cities
and ism’s and ideologies and history and economics and………
but are we? the modern disconnect we feel, the alienation
that most people feel might be the real deal… in other words,
that is our true self… the past where we didn’t think of ourselves
as atoms is a false past… our disconnect and alienation is a sign
that we are no longer “hidden” from who we are… simply random,
atoms that appear and disappear as the case may be…….
as I think of my life… exactly how many people have I actually
impacted? I would say very few…we have 7 billion human beings
living on planet earth and I have had actual contact with .000000000000001%
of them…(that number is a guess btw, the actual number is probably far smaller)
the real question becomes this: how do we no longer become just
random, chaotic atoms?
personally, I am just one random atom…living in the midst of
billions of other random atoms… how do we begin the process and it is
a process, of no longer being random atoms?
as I look at the living room, I see a vacuum cleaner… just sitting there…
in the middle of the room… it just sits there, interacting with nothing…
how would I get that vacuum cleaner to actually interact with its environment?
we would turn it on and use it… to vacuum the carpet…
now I am putting myself in the place of the vacuum cleaner… I stand there.
I isolated and separate from the living room… an random atom… in the midst of
non-moving atoms that are all about the living room…the couch, the bookstands,
the many books, the carpet, the two lamps, although I can’t see the TV from the
kitchen table, I know its there………I see the towels on the couch my daughter said
she would put away two days ago… and they are still there…I see the lizards cage
where Norman, my daughters pet Gecko lives… he isn’t moving right now… actually,
he rarely ever moves… except when she feeds him a live worm……
anyway… the living room is filled with stationary, immobile, inanimate
objects… nothing moves on it own… to make anything happen in my living
room, I must interact with it, I must move it…every single object in my living room
including Norman is a temporary, inanimate object which is always in the state of
breaking down, entropy is hard at work in my living room… living things like Norman
must be given energy to prevent entropy… but at some point, entropy will win and
regardless of the energy I put into Norman, he will die… living things have a changing
amount of entropy in them… as a living thing, the amount of entropy changes…
I release energy all the time and to replenish that energy, I must eat…
living things have a changing amount of entropy…whereas inanimate
objects such as the vacuum cleaner has a set amount of entropy,
a set amount of energy within it to maintain its form… which is what
we use energy for, to maintain and continue our existence and form…
at some point in time, my kitchen table, if it isn’t broken up into
a million pieces for something or other, will at some point, lose the
energy that is fixed within it… it will lose its form because the set
amount of energy within it will be gone, unless I put energy into that
kitchen table, by fixing it up or replacing the broken legs or do something
that returns energy into that kitchen table…
so we, the kitchen table, the vacuum cleaner, the books on my bookcase
are all made up of energy as am I… we are a collection of atoms and if
we don’t engage in the process of having equal process of energy
going in and energy going out, we begin the process of entropy which
is the loss of energy going into our system and with that loss, we
begin to disperse, our cells being the process of losing cohesion…
we are on both a large scale and a small scale… existing as atoms…
atoms that don’t maintain the equation of atom, being the process of breaking
down, of decomposing…as living things, as atoms, we are always in
the process of breaking down, of decomposing… and by replenishing our
energy, we restore the matter/energy that is within our system…
recall that human beings are matter and if you burn us, in a fire for example,
you turn our mass, our material into energy… our body temperature is a sign
of our matter/energy usage…if we weren’t matter/energy, we wouldn’t
have a body temperature…….
so what does all of the above tell us?
that we are atoms… and we respond to the universe
as atoms and we suffer from entropy as does every
single atom in the universe suffers from entropy…
so how does individual atoms, interact with the universe?
the 4 fundamental forces of nature: gravitational force, weak
nuclear force, electromagnetic force and the strong nuclear force…
as we are part of the universe and as we are atoms, both large and small…
if one were to create the Grand unified theory of everything
as Einstein tried to do, then we would finally find our exact place
in the universe as we too are part of any grand unified theory of
everything…we exists within that universe and are a part of that
universe…any theory that explain how the four fundamental forces
of the universe works, also explains us………
so from being an isolated atom existing apart in the universe,
now I am part of any grand unified theory of the universe…
just as individual atoms can be explained in any GUT, we humans
can be explained just as easily…
Kropotkin