Civilization in Sophisticated Balance

Sustainable and Development. These sounds to me somewhat conflicting.
Developing something means generating entropy.
Therefore, sustainable means to throw the entropy that is generated through development away as distant as possible from us.
Herein, a self-proclaimed amateur scientist murmurs something that might have already been well stated by real specialists, in a way of pretending to know. But anyway, somewhat of a manner of ignorant yet eager to learn outlaw.
(But maybe reading this gives you a good distraction. )

Is everything necessary?

Everything which is presently available is really necessary? Is tobacco, as somewhat tangible example, necessary?
“But then tobacco makes up certain portion of economy and the tobacco economy supports people who need what is necessary therefore tobacco is necessary.”
Is this logic flawless? OK then,
what if tobacco is fully prohibited because it is considered unnecessary thereby people who are supported by tobacco economy are completely extinct? If those people are the consumer of modern communication network then having lost this considerable consumer block, the modern communication network, which might be one of necessary things, will be in the blink of extinction.
Is this scenario practical?
This kind of domino-effect is my very point in thinking of establishing a civilization in sophisticated balance. If minimizing CO2 emission needs to delete certain economic block, can other economic blocks be kept?

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Feedback effect between each other; Technology, Economy, Manpower,

Of course, if energy or other industrialized system that are the source of CO2 emission are fully replaced with new system which CO2 emission is absolutely zero, then that sort of concern will be solved completely. But is that really possible?
The more sophisticated balance is sought the more manpower will be needed and thereby another phase of entropy growth might be caused.
The more streamlining of consumption is sought the further the vulnerability of economy might matter.
The above two could be in a feedback loop; The more manpower is mobilized, the further the vulnerability of balance will extend.
This could be a case in streamlining vs vulnerability of economy as well. Sophisticated is not synonymous to luxurious, of course. But can streamlined be really of innovation? After all, quantity matters, isn’t it? Otherwise, frugality overwhelms sophistication, civilization or innovation, maybe?
We all would be driven to return simply back to of primitive, obsolete and then rudimentary life if it were inevitable to resign innovation because of sustainability.

Quantity matters?

Does quantity matter? But knowledge is the vital tool for sophistication and civilization and knowledge is grown in an atmosphere of diversity. Diversity needs sufficient or say, large quantity. Is this true?

A specific work necessitates another specific work

Let’s Imagine, we are now enduring primitive life and then one of our kids is suffered from a kind of ailment which normally is easy to cure if it is modern world.
Although now we have knowledge on it, any facilities to cure it is no more available and therefore the kid died of it.

For Covid-19, vaccination was quite quickly developed as we have the knowledge on what is virus and how it can be mitigated and how to produce vaccination. Of course, not only the knowledge but also facilities, energies and manpower were necessary.
Then furthermore apparently, even during normal days when such things as Covid-19 does not emerge these things should be kept on waiting mode.
Could such industry as pharmaceutical be kept at a level that is always ready for such situation as Covid, while well minimized and shrunk as necessary for frugality the infrastructure and economy is kept?

Initially human started introducing agriculture which gave human surplus amount of food supply. The surplus further gave human opportunities for extending its activities to things other than purely food obtaining ones. That then further enhanced the human survival and at the same time generated quite a nuisance of anti-environmental byproducts.

Minimum condition of Population to Minimum Items to be in function

Returning to the theme today, let’s see how a well balanced civilization can be.
Enhanced survival needs knowledge. To practice the knowledge whenever it is required needs well stand-by facilities.
Well stand-by facilities need well grown economy which causes large amount of energy.
The energy generates entropy which causes anti-environmental emissions.
How can we minimize the anti-environmental emissions to a level that can be absolutely evaluated as no harm at the same time that the level of civilization is kept at higher level?
Structure of the system should be kept. Then the quantity should be reduced. putting it another the quality is kept while the quantity is reduced.
How?
How about our population?

Population matters most?

The word “population” suddenly has come to my mind. To make population under control in order for it to be the best suits to balancing between creation and conservation, number of births control system will be an option.
Number of births control?
Yes number of births control!
But how!?
Oh don’t impose such a tough question!
Anyway, Ok how about this.
For instance, what if a government issues the right-of-giving-birth ticket to some people who were chosen in a way that can keep whole population almost constant. Calculation, of course, would be necessary taking into consideration on matters; quantity, knowledge, sophistication, innovation, civilization, diversity and minimum required volume of economy.
But, number of births control? Only chosen people?
Probably some people would oppose, insisting that everyone has the right to have their own children.
So, the government would introduce a measure against that opposition.
In the measure, all the babies born through that government birth program are raised and educated by a public organization so that no child belongs to any particular family. Immediately after being born, each and every baby is isolated from its parents with no traces left.
uuuuu, Is this correct in terms of humanity?
However rational its logic can be, it looks to me somewhat wrong.

Greta Thunberg, her yacht

Her yacht sailed to New York. The yacht was equipped with telecommunication and power generation device that had not been available in an era of sailing ships. I mean her yacht somehow is representing balance between creation and conservation in a way that minimizes the increase of entropy. Thanks to that telecommunication and power system on board she was able to safely navigate through once a dangerous ocean field at the same time then with minimum emission with such energy source as sun right, ocean tide and natural wind.
Anyway its very strengthened hull is made of, maybe, fiber reinforced plastic which might lead another and diverse technology, thereby may consume so much of energy, economy and therefore a considerable quantity of something.
Here then quantity matters again?
The idea of the yacht could highly be evaluated as message since I myself has also been inspired of an idea of balanced civilization anyway. Then at the same time, it implies the difficulty as well, I suppose.

What are necessary for making semiconductor? What are required for making medicines? What are essential for making food?

For semiconductors; silicon, and other metals, energy, chemicals, clean room, factory, people who design it, procure, fabricate etc. Medicine as well and then food.
Thinking of such a diversity of ingredients and facilities, I can’t help posing a question: After all, “Quantity matters most”, isn’t it?
Minimum required quantity is determined at the quality which human think necessary. If the quantity is put as the most prioritized factor then it represents quality.
Can the nature be in a best balance with civilization while human never give up “Fake Luxury”. Fake Luxury?!
No! True luxury is I think surrounded by beautiful nature peacefully.

Future, optimistic or pessimistic?

They say world population may turn in a decline in a future. If so, naturally quantity of civilization will be suppressed in a way that can keep things at a sustainable level while quality of civilization is best ever highly sophisticated.
But maybe that will be too late, comparing the speed of entropy which human is presently experiencing, with a decline rate of world population. Also to bear in mind is the way of seeking economic growth. I can’t describe it practically, but I think it should be of more spiritual.
Oh, I am scarily. I am not such specialist that can speak of such a difficult thing. Everyone in the world seeks happiness although the way of realizing happiness sometimes quite a bias, yet I want to trust in human.

Lazy ant and Ecstasy of Pianist

Once I was a lazy ant.
No name nor ID was given but I was being fed with enough food.
They were working. I was not.
They were feeding me.
There were lots of ants like me.
How could I know the word “lazy”?
Because an ant who once fed me said “I know you are not working at all, you are so called lazy ant”.
One day, l was hit by sudden sensation of workaholic. I don’t know why but anyway I am working now and feeding another lazy ant.

Several years ago, I read a short article about “lazy ant” on some kind of news article.
Then, I came up with an idea of expressing it in a personification way as above.

Lazy ants make themselves useful in unexpected ways

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170908205356.htm

In that article, being described was a fact that scientists found that lazy ants exist indeed, and they are being fed by other working (task holding) ants. After all, the scientists concluded that those lazy ants were as kind of reserve work force, that article stated.

So, if some amount of work force is lost somehow, then the lazy ants will turn into working ants immediately. Maybe some sort of secretion process is underway, the article had explained.

Sorry, this is just my unclear memory of that article and therefore if you want to know it precisely and to deepen it further, you should contact real specialist.

Anyway, let me continue.

Initially I thought that those lazy ants are for keeping diversity of DNA.
If ant’s population necessary for enough DNA diversity is larger than that for food hunter- gathering and furthermore working ants can collect food sufficient for feeding those idle ants as well, then the system can work.
Anyway, OK, they are reserve work force. Yes, it’s quite simple interpretation and consistent logic.

So, can this mechanism be applicable to human society? If so, I want to be the lazy side forever. (You would say; You! such a man!)
The point is the word “forever”. I know there is nothing being forever.
Also. worth notified is that mechanism; lazy ants quickly turn into substantial work force.

Assuming that there are a lot of lazy employees in a company in which only a few people are working indeed in a productive way and then suddenly those working people have moved to another company, can those lazy people turn immediately into productive work force?

It is impossible of course! They don’t have well nurtured skill which normally is attained through out rigorous work life. In Ants case, the skill is in their DNA, perhaps.

So, how can such risk as losing skilled workers be hedged?
No reserve, no spare, no standby.
You! company top brass bastards! Why don’t you do things on your own!

Oh I should not use such a coarse language.
Anyway, you see. The point is the spirit for work. Person who has strong spilites toward contributing a certain company, well determined in devotion, will not leave the company.

Ants do not have work spirit, maybe anyway. Spirit is not a part of system. DNA is part of system. And in ant’s case, those working ants and lazy ants are both a kind of consumable, I suppose.

Communism, capitalism, socialism, corruption-izm any -izms may contain spirit.

What is really “Working”?
Imagine, a man who has long endured such hard work as pumping up groundwater from coal mine by driving the pumping device with his own muscle, then one day he invented steam engine to drive the pumping device.
So, somewhat in this short story, the point is a question; did he come up with the idea of steam engine in order to escape from such backbreaking hard work and then to be lazy?

Probably, he would further make tremendous effort to invent another new machine that is more energy efficient and more powerful than those initial models.
Or maybe he would be really lazy like nobles in corrupted dynasty who are sedentary on his success.

Imagine again, here we see a girl who wants to be a pianist.
She then told her lover who is a computer scientist that she wants to be a pianist and therefore she is “working hard” to practice playing the piano.
Then, the lover said; My sweetheart, you don’t need to make such “inefficient effort”. I can build a piano control program with a computerized system so any music can be played in piano sound whether or not it is composed by you or others. You do not need to endure hard lessons to play the piano.
Frowned, she then murmured, “You don’t really understand what my desire is all about.”
……. She left from him forever. “Good Bye!”

What she wants is simple.
She wants to make something embodied within a time and space where she and her audiences can share the feeling powered with the music. And the fact that she is now really and directly playing the piano by her body, nerves, intelligence, consciousness, and memory of tremendous hard work so far etc. further enhance that feeling, a kind of ecstasy state.

Imagin, she and her audiences are in a state of ecstasy.

Oh, what was the theme today?
So, lazy ant.
The pianist, she doesn’t want to be a greedy company top-brass nor corrupted noble rather she needs hard work only. Her hard work is not for becoming lazy person. Hard work itself is the aim.

Then, could that lazy ant feel such extasy in being lazy?
Or for lazy ants, is it possible that there is nothing like ecstasy even after getting transformed into workaholic ants, I wonder. And then, do only the queen and prince gain a sensation of ecstasy when they feel their group of ants thriving?
At this moment, I do not know it nor even could imagine it.
In case of human, there may be nothing like spares as any idling human can never be replacement in such a quick manner, like ants, as each has its own personality.

For ants, such expression of “lazy” will never fit. For human, ecstasy may fit to the discussion in Knowledge Argument.

Knowledge Argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

Sinkhole in China with forest. —— The Lost World?

When I was an elementary school kid, I read that famous novel “The Lost World”. In a plateau in South America, in early 1900s found is a lost generation of biological environment and system where dinosaurs are roaming around. That is the overall scenery of that novel. The plateau provides perfect isolation to the biological environment there from any evolutionary movement. (At that time when the novel was written, collision of meteorite had not even yet on the mind of human.)
For such kids like me at that time, this background setting looked somewhat scientific and practical though at the same time I was well aware that it is just a fiction.

Then around 50 years later, I have encountered another, more and further realistic “Lost World”.

It is called “Sinkhole”.

What is Sinkhole? Please check wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkhole

A sinkhole recently found in China may keep somewhat lost generation of biological system because of its construction, which somehow has functioned as isolation from evolutionally or environmental changes. ——— some web articles state so.

In the sinkhole, they found ancient forest.

As you now can guess, these articles reminded me of “The Lost World”.
If I can say I have been well matured adult (really?), then this news can be modern adult version of that novel. Nevertheless, I know that most of the preserved lost generation will be of vegetation rather than animal.

Oh, somewhere on the globe do I believe there should be a place where dinosaurs are still well preserved alive. (—- Only when I am drunk.)

Isolated Environment that keeps, to some extent, pasts

Regaining my composure, I just have reconsidered that stupid idea in a relatively adult way.

Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world (a maximum depth of 1,642 meters). Deep down its water would be an ideal preservation facility. Of cause such a place will never allow ground animals to be alive. However maybe a kind of things like skin of dinosaur or even the part of its flesh may possibly be preserved well sufficiently for scientific purposes.

So, it comes in my mind that if Lake Baikal is an ideal place, then ocean as well be such place.

OK then, let’s raise a movement among academics and knowledge-seeking billionaires.
A movement; Excavate deep ocean floor such as Mariana Trench. Or of Lake Baikal.
The bottom of Baikal, which considered once a ground area above sea level, may keep some precious treasure of knowledge for ancient biological system. So, I suppose there would be found might be of remarkably preserved, pickled-in-water like specimen in formalin, —— a remain of dinosaur. There it is pickled Lost World!

Oh, please someone, get me back to sober.

Even with the most advanced technology available for us, it is impossible to undertake excavation in such an extremity of Mariana Trench or the deepest area of Lake Baikal.
—– this is quite normal perception. If anyone who can say it possible, then please do it and tell me the result via some kinds of well-known ways like putting an article about it on National Geographic. Or it’s already been done?

Anyway, after all it is not exactly “The Lost World”.

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So, in our DNA found would be sinkhole or plateau in the DNA; data bank of our long-forgotten ancestors

Is it possible to resurrect dinosaur? Like in that modern novel and movie.

Maybe we might find in DNAs in some modern life forms including human, “The Lost World” or say, a kind of plateaus or sinkholes, which are well isolated from any shifts caused by evolutionally mutation of DNA. Then by collecting those parts of DNAs from several life forms, we might obtain a set of parts that can be assembled together into another life form, like assembling Lego blocks.
It’s like deciphering ancient language by tracing back the origin of words from several modern languages. Words and Grammatical order etc. in ancient language might be dissipated and be hidden in several languages in the cause of history.
For instance; If some birds have fragments of DNA that contains information on the spine structure of T-Rex. Then if some specific reptiles have data in their DNA of the internal organs of T-Rex. And if some fishes bring fragments of DNA information for —— of T-Rex.

The point is how to distinguish each specific DNA block that can be the parts of once flourished life form and how to draw the assembly drawing of those specific blocks.

Maybe this kind of concept has already been announced worldwide.
Nevertheless, above statement is just an imagination and therefore there is no proof nor theory nor facts that can support it. —– Just a playful ignorant monologue, it shall be.

Whatever. I am longing for live dinosaurs. Those news articles on ancient forest in Sinkholes ignited my imagination.
Hang in there! For those who are carrying out research activity for that wonderful sinkhole.

Somewhere there might be sinkhole of DNA?

How to completely eliminate war?
In our DNA, there is a region that drives us to war, isn’t it?
So, a vaccination for war DNA pattern? —– Oh, how foolish—-

The Planck constant, the least coin in the world of energy

Isaac Newton, in his world, what rules over it is differential calculus. In that mathematics system being the basis is infinitely continuous and theoretically possible always of division, therefore, it is uncountable but quantifiable. Therefore, logically it is possible to describe any small value of energy.
Max Planck, a physicist in the later generation in this field than that of Newton, introduced new concept that is different from what Newton had introduced.
Energy value takes only values of integer multiple of a minimal element.

Coins in quantifying energy value

Coins can make only fixed discrete value.
Assuming that the consumer tax ratio is 0.3% and the price of a product “chewing gum” is 1 $ and then the consumer tax value comes to 0.003 $, how can you pay that 1.003 $?
Even if you have 3 of 1 cent coins, you can only make 0.03$.
Maybe, you have to cut 1 cent coin into further ten pieces like a pizza shared by ten people.
Of course, in case of large amount of money transaction, such value as 1,000,000$ for instance, the consumer tax value in the above case is 3,000$. Then you only need 3000 of 1$ bills. You don’t need to cut each bill into pieces.
I interpret it as above; the energy behavior is like our currency system.
To specialists, am I correct?

So, space, time, whatsoever, everything has its own the least coin, maybe or ——

So, what if everything should be composed of minimal elements like the least coin?
Especially for physics, they are contemplating to establish the theory with elementary particles. As an element it should be, each of them will never disperse, I think maybe???
Can the time also be dividable up to a minimal element? If so, it’s like clock needle for seconds.
Probably, such idea had already been taken or rejected by those specialists and they would say, at my rudimentary rough imagination, “If you will pardon me, please let me tell you that you have to study physics in proper manner.”
Then, I would retaliate against that statement saying, “How the proper manner be defined while relativity, probability etc. rules your world”. Then I would take another sip of whisky as a preparation for escape operation.

In a cyber would everything has its own the least unit. A bit. Pixel etc

Now a days, computer graphics technology can create visual image of very high-resolution. Movement, color, shapes etc. of the vision, all those look very real.
Of cause, that visual image is composed of the least unit such as bits, pixel, system clock pulse (basis of time shift) etc. And as long as every element is synchronized with each other, whole system functions as continuous as Mr. Newton imagined. ——- Maybe I think, without any proof though.

The universe is being like cyber world, isn’t it? Or that is somewhat of crazy idea?

So, here introduced such a crazy, drunken idea. Space (universe), or say, Cosmology is established with a perception of cyber world. Loop quantum gravity might be the one that I imagine, though I have not even taken a glimpse of the theory and I don’t know if it is as I imagined. But considering a fact that cyber world is expanding in an exponential speed like big bang while the development of theory of physics has been not that way, that latest theory of physics might lack something vital which computer scientists have long introduced into cyber world, though maybe computer scientists are not aware of the fact that that ordinally thing for them is quite a vital to cosmology indeed.
—– I think so —-, Oh I am sorry, this is a monologue. (In a past I read a book which says there is a theory in which cosmos is modeled like cyber world. Anyway, that book did not show anything of the theory itself. Then, I thought that there might be other people who are as crazy as me.)

Planck constant will finally be described as a converging value of an infinite series, may or may not be, like Pi

Then, once more, let me be in my indulgence. Pi can be calculated by some geometrical way, like a “coin” infinitely divided into infinite numbers of triangles. Maybe someone remembers that in their elementary school age in a math-class did that process to obtain approximation of the value of Pi. So, if cosmos or universe or simply say space can be mathematically modeled then Planck constant might possibly be obtained through calculation only without any value obtained through experiments of physics.
What?! Are you ok?!
Specialists or academics in this field would exclaim so again.

Stop the war!

Plague, long time driving force for survival

Plague is survival? Is this what you really mean?
Hello ——-, anybody home——????, are you OK?

I am OK. (Perhaps)
When it comes to the word Plague, there are several meanings and here being talked about is that deadly disease, also known as “Black Death”.

It has given human so many ordeals, which were resulted in, anyway, the sort of admirations such as, resilience, perseverance, or, simply expressed, a strength.

The Oldest Historical Record

Traces of the pathogen of plague was found in some Bronze Age human remains from some 5000 years ago. But it is not the sort that can be called Historical Record because those Bronze Age humans might have not been aware of recording their history and the traces were just detected in the human remains by modern science.

Then, some historical records were found in so called Amarna letters, some cuneiform text of Hittite king Mursili II or Books of Samuel in Old Testament.
All of them were in BC era and written in the language being used at that time.
——– Some thousand years old sufferings of human being.

Nevertheless, those plagues all had come to end always and eventually leaving human precious lessons learned and “creation”. Creation from what they learned.

In England, 1655, a small village “Eyam”

The village, called “Eyam” was hit by plague. Anyway, later on found was the remarkable difference in numbers of survivors, compared against other villages.
Some scientists finally concluded that certain genetic mutation called Delta32 is responsible for that remarkable numbers of survivors.
There are some stories about the villager’s fight against plague. The most impressed for me is story of a wife whose family members were all died of plague but the wife herself was not infected with plague even though she had been exposed to all her family members. She was giving them any cares as she could think of as possible. Hundreds of years later, found are holders of a specific DNA pattern among her bloodlines. Her devotion to her family conveyed the knowledge to future scientists.

Delta32, the protection shield given to some people but not to all

So, a question is posed.
Why do not all people have Delta32?
In army organization, infantries are rationed with handheld guns and some personal protection devices while armored division is given mechanical equipment such as heavy tanks, cannons and missile launchers.
Never be forgotten is unarmed civilians whose protection is quite weak.
Nature does things in a way somewhat similar to what army organization does.
Even nature, something of holy and divine (my personal opinion), is undertaking such a harsh human discrimination, it seems to me.

Delta32 to AIDS

There is an experiential knowledge; a person who has Delta32 is never infected with AIDS. A set of knowledge from a lesson has just been found to be linked with another, further enhancing the effort of human to survive. That kind of process can be seen as creation.
The creation, or the effort of human to survive looks somehow trying to eliminate all such discrimination that look like a given ordeal by an intention of something divine.

Human, at least we can say, is not perfect even after the completion of its form. As like Personal Computers, which continuously are evolving, human has also been in evolutionally process.

In this regard, such sequence of events, ordeal-recovery-review and try to do, can be considered driving force to reach a point that is as perfect as possible but never at complete perfection. It’s like an infinite series (mathematical) that converges continuously into a certain figure that is conditioned with some mathematical relations, and it never stops the converging process. For instance, actual value of “Pi”; 3.14159 26535 ——————– to be continued forever.

Why had it not been given to all, from the very beginning of human appearance on the earth?

However, I can’t help thinking why such protection was not given to all human at the very beginning of human.

If there is a kind of existence that intended to create human, it seems that that existence cannot create something perfect from the very beginning in almost instantly. Instead, it gives human harsh lesson as part of its creation process. If human were intended to be created by such mysterious existence, then the process of that creation is still underway.

By giving such harsh lesson, something that is converged into something strengthened from diversity is created, maybe or may not be, I am not sure ——. Just feeling it quite vaguely. Diversity may also be important where everything is uncertain.

We are well aware of the usefulness of scientific approach. And facing at Covid-19, we made tremendous effort such as large scale of virus detection like PCR, development of the method of treatment specific to Covid-19 and development of vaccination.

Now returning to the introduction of this short talk;
“Plague, long time driving force for survival”,
Something necessary is not always something positive. Anything positive maybe is created by human after an ordeal is overcome.

So, that lady in that village “Eyam”, Her story will never be positive. But thanks to her remarkable determination in taking care of her family, we can now be aware of Delta32.

Now a days, there are lots of negative stories such as war. Would all those give strength to human in future, even if it is caused by the very human not by nature? “War, long time driving force for survival?” The very survival by killing enemy not by taking care of suffered.

Mr. Boltzmann, let me think about Entropy, Sorrow and the reason why people endure their life.

Entropy, the destiny of Energy

Eventually, it dies out. (More precisely no usable energy). Nothing can retain it. Creation, if it means “energy”, will fundamentally be of nihility. So saying the theory of Entropy is. (Maybe). Oh! Really? I don’t think so.

Sorrow, is it the destiny of Happiness?

There are certain people who are trying to signify the value of life and then seeking a way to convince people that life is worth enough to endure so that nobody opts for suicide. One person exemplified it as something of punishment by God but nevertheless as also something that gives human dignity. Mr. Boltzmann, if you had met the person then had exchanged conversation, would you have opted for that? I am wondering.
Person like you (maybe I think) who reached a point of consideration where the destiny of energy is being reflected on human destiny, might often be lost because scientifically speaking everything is destinated to nothing because of entropy. That means any and every instant of happiness always ends up nihilation. But is that true?

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Science, such a good thing to play with

I am just a science story freak and not an academic nor specialist. And recent days for me are of my 2nd boom of Entropy. The 1st was when I was in university more than 30 years ago. So, I have read several books on Entropy and always found there your name, Mr. Boltzmann. I know that person who provided the beginning was Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot. And Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius farther developed it. Anyhow all the books symbolize you as founder of Entropy. After reading those books, I come to a thought that because of your reflection of Entropy on human life (Maybe I think you did it), you took that quite a sad path. Nevertheless, for me, exploring on science in my “selfish way” is always a good device to mitigate, to some degrees, negative thought such as how stupid I have been so far.

Famous scientists who (probably I think) tried to reverse Entropy such as Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger

Mr. Albert Einstein once tried to make a mathematical model of the destiny of space. His initial model represented that the space finally be nullified! But, later, he modified the equation so that space exists active forever.
Mr. Erwin Schrödinger proposed the concept of negentropy in his book titled “What is Life?”. Negentropy; “negative entropy”. I think he tried to challenge against that sad interpretation on Entropy.
Once one of my science teachers said that entropy continuously increasing and that means the more energy is used, the less usable energy is available.
Also, cosmology argue that the space may finally be of a state of nihilation.
Destiny of death looks to some person, who are too keen, a philosophical parallel to the theory of entropy, I suppose. Now gradually, I am getting confused, and I am also getting somewhat positive.

Is Creation the key to reversing Entropy?

Is Creation the key to reversing Entropy?
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Is Creation the key to reversing Entropy?

We have not yet reached the destination and, who can tell we reached it?
I can’t help feeling how meaningful one’s life must be. I don’t have any logic though, purely I am feeling because I can feel something in Information Theory and Mandelbrot Set in Fractal. Information, I think that once it is created it will never disappear though its scale and format may shift. Of course, noise should always be the Entropy but if a kind of feedback effect is a very result of innovation as some people once stated then – – – -.
And if self-similarity is the basic structure of things, then the shift of entropy i.e., transfer from order to disorder may have also self-similarity therefore if things fundamentally are contained in infinity, that single directed and irreversible process may emerge one after the other. Finally, the processes continue to emerge forever. Is that the very meaning of infinity and then of life, furthermore the true meaning of Entropy, Mr. Boltzmann?

Note:

The above context is just a monologue of nobody and there is no credibility at all but anyway here I express my utmost respect to Mr. Boltzmann.
Basically, human is able to be happy, and it is not necessary for anyone to be logical with the meaning of life rather just feel it by simply gulping down a pint of beer.
OK, guys cheers!

Scientists on board those ships, in the ocean and in the sky – UFO ? –

Introduction

It was around mid-1980s, a research ship deployed by Japanese Fisheries Agency experienced mysterious incident, which, it seems, is considered as encounter to UFO. Because of the purpose of the ship, on board were the well experienced and authorized scientists and engineers thus they reported the incident and newspapers took it as a news article.
So, herein this time, let’s see this mystery from two S.F. viewpoints.
One is S.F. (Scientific Facts), The other is also another S.F. (Science Fiction).

Scientific Facts

The name of the ship is Kaiyou-maru.
The purpose of it is to research the natural resource of ocean such as population of fish, its behavior etc.

That Kaiyou-maru was the first generation. The present one is its second generation.

On that day, the ship was on duty in middle of Pacific Ocean and one of crews who is an expert of radar detection was on nightshift duty in the bridge. Then he and his two colleagues found a large object on radar screen, the size, he estimates, was around 200 to 300m. One of the three personnel left a memo that describes the incident.
He wrote ——–, “On radar screen being observed is a very large object that is moving around our ship”. “Although being in moon lit night, we could not visually confirm the existence of the object”, ———the memo said.

To their surprise, the object with unbelievably high speed circulated around the ship then suddenly approached the ship and made a V-turn, being away from the ship and out of the sight of radar screen.

The radar detection expert firmly denied any possibility of malfunction of radar system.

30 minutes later, again a large object appeared again on the radar screen.
This time, it appeared in the rear side of the ship with certain distance and approached with enormous speed. (Lator the speed was estimated as Mach 4)
At that time, the radar expert was remaining monitoring on the radar screen and the other two personnel were on the deck trying to visually confirm the object.

The radar expert thought that collision with the object would be inevitable. But the other two guys could not see anything in the sky. And when the object on the radar screen reached above the ship, they heard a noise, it’s like storm-like or air-blow-like noise, that for the expert was never heard before. Then the radar expert raised his face and saw very strong light, red or yellow, and unintentionally cried “Oh there it is!”.

Shortly, the light diminished and the disappeared, at the same time the object on the radar screen disappeared.

NOTE:
The incident happened more than 30 years ago.
And even if the above story is described as “Fact”, it comes from my weak, long-time- ago-memory about the newspaper article therefore the word “Fact” is being applied for making a degree of contrast against the fiction story that follows below.

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Science Fiction

The room was comfortably cool. There, 4 human like figures are focusing on a large screen. Two of them look like women on the planet earth. They all are neither exactly European nor Asian rather are of several hybrid and basically beautiful.

“Captain, there found is a ship on the ocean” – – – said a woman like figure, with silky long black hair.

“I see, Keliny.” – – – Captain said.

“Based on visual penetration imaging, it is considered as scientific research purpose.” “Also confirmed is a fact that it does not contain anything of explosives aimed at killing or destroying others for such purpose as war.” – – – the other woman who has green short hair reported.

“Ok Lamulla, so these humanoids there we see are all peaceful engineers or scientists, like us, isn’t it?”- – – the Captain said.

“Yes, sir I think so too.”- – – Lamulla returned.

Another, man like figure followed.
“The ship is radiating electromagnetic wave which is considered as kind of detection system.”
“Based on the information from our Another Planet Research Center, the humanoids on this planet have already attained such important knowledges as Principle of constancy of the speed of light, quantum theory, entropy, etc. but have not yet to know the existence of super-light speed time-space layer. Anyway, their strength to carry on a civilization is at the same level of ours, except for complete elimination of war. Captain.”

“I see, so they are still struggling with war as we had been once. We also have painstaking history of tackling with the problem of war.”
“OK, so I have an idea. Skytes! Ask No.7 galaxy natural civilization conservation committee (GNCCC-7) if it is allowed to present our spaceship only on their detection system while avoiding any visual sight of our spaceship by them, except for redshifted light emission at the instant of diving into super-light speed time-space layer.”
“Maybe that can be a mysterious but story-telling effect on them so that they might have a hint of advanced technology while their history can avoid being uncontrollably affected.” – – – Captain stated.

“Yes sir!” – – – the man like figure replied.

In a matter of few minutes, Skytes said.
“Captain, GNCCC-7 has confirmed that it is permitted.”

“OK then, first of all, adjust visibility screen around our ship so that they can’t visually see us but see on their detection system. That can be done by controlling the electromagnetic resonance band of the screen. After that, let’s start circulating around their ship.
After several turning around the ship, show them V-turn that is impossible for their flying machines so that they consider us as something unknown.
Then, approach the ship again from its rear side, accelerating, so that at the very above of the ship critical speed for super-light speed time-space layer dive is achieved.”
“In that instant, they will see the redshifted light emission and that could be our future greeting to them who will be someday our good friends provided that they could completely eliminate war.”
– – – Captain ordered.

No sooner had they started their approach these 4 were able to see that two humanoid figures appeared around the outside of the room on the ship on the ocean, the room looks like its control room. It seemed that these two figures, bewildered, were looking for the object which they might have seen on their detection system.

“Now Dive-in!” – – – Skytes said.

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Author’s Note

Finally, I inadvertently expanded my indulgence to such an extent of writing such a foolish story only for selfish pleasure.
Although the report of these scientist was once taken by famous newspaper, at the same time there is no concrete proof at all that it was a spaceship from another distant planet, far distant than expected on laws of physics. Also, such thing as super-light speed time-space layer is my complete and pure hallucination. Anyway, denying something is sometimes impossible as nobody knows the limitation of possibilities, for instance, “OK no more possibility, can you confirm?”, rather presenting something real can give us absolute truth. Here of course, If I can build that kind of spaceship and can demonstrate exceeding light speed, then I can say, “That incident was real”.
– – – Oops, Sorry – – – I now stop my today’s mischievous act.

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Refeeding syndrome, Hypothermia and humanity

They knew it, somehow, though at that time any scientific or medical knowledge about it had not been shared or even established yet.

Simply say, it is danger to give a person, who is in starvation state, well-nourished food. That is refeeding syndrome.

And it poses a degree of risk on life if a person who shows hypothermia is given heat directly. Often the person shows a kind of shock and dies.

In Japan, during samurai era, some samurai warrior might have possibly known refeeding syndrome, guessing from their diary.

Also in Japan, there is a recode around late 18s about large scale tragedy of a marine accident with more than 100 fishermen died and just a few survived. The survived were saved by people in a tiny island and then the people knew something of how to treat hypothermia and how to avoid refeeding syndrome although in that era in Japan any knowledge about those medical issues did not exist at all. Maybe they attained experiential knowledge throughout their own history of saving life.

I read a nonfiction novel about 33 men trapped in copper mine in Chile. In the story, prevention measure of refeeding syndrome was being described. I remember slightly a short explanation about the knowledge of refeeding syndrome. It states that the knowledge was officially acknowledged through experiences on medical treatment for POW during WWII. (US army officers and soldiers captured and maltreated by Japanese army…… I must admit it.)

Anyway, here what I want to make remark on is the fact that some people had already known it well before the knowledge is well established in scientific manner.

You see of course some kind of knowledge can be obtained through experiences especially in case the knowledge is quite tangible but for refeeding syndrome normally people who try to save the life of starved person will obviously tend to give the person nourishing food as simple conclusion.

How can a person be aware of the risk? There in their hand is the food that normally gives human the power of survival! They would think, “Yes! You can eat it now and gain a strength!”

As for hypothermia as well, how can a person be aware of the risk in providing heat from such source as bonfire. The person simply sees the necessity of giving warmth to the patient’s body. And then if the patient has died, the person would think that it would have been too late simply rather than having doubt of the way of giving warmth.

In that incident of fishermen in Japan, the people in that tiny island found some fishermen who drifted on the coast. And the islanders brought the fishermen in their shacks, there their wives and grown daughters, naked, laid their body contacted to the fishermen’s body so that their natural and biological heat transferred to the fishermen’s body then after all hypothermia is avoided. They didn’t apply the heat of their bonfire though actually at that time they had bonfire to get their shack warmed. Instead, they used voluntarily their body heat, though the people whom they were trying to save were all unidentified strangers.

When the islanders found the fishermen keeping their strength, if not fully being recovering, they gave them warm water with red clay soil dissolved, though the fishermen’s urge for food. Then a few days later, they started giving them light food, a kind of soup.

How could they know the way?

Assuming that long time ago before they attained the knowledge, they would have found some persons on the coast, what would have happened have been leading to that knowledges?
Since each family would have lived in very small shack, they would have decided that one family would taken one person to its shack. Some family would have been able to afford having bonfire while others not. At that time such islanders would have been suffered from a condition somewhat close to poverty, if not being died of it. So, some family would have used their bonfire, others, since at that time they had used to sleep every night with family members all together huddled to share their warmth instead of bonfire, would have applied their body to give the persons warmth.
Then the next morning they would have found a fact that some persons survived and others not. Therefore they would have found a fact that all survived were ones taken to a family who did not use bonfire.

In case of refeeding syndrome, assuming that some family did not afford any food, what would ——-, no, that is impossible. The family alive that means they have food.
So, —–, how about this;
Some applied nourishing food, some applied minimal light food, some gave the patient only water served in wood tray, some provided it in a tray improvised with red clay soil.

Now a days, scientists often undertake so called control experiment. For instance, when the objective of a science research is to verify the existence of photosynthesis, they carry out multiple experiments. In one, they would leave a leaf of tree as it is, in another they cover a leaf with non-transparent sheet. Then after a period of time, they put some chemicals on these leaves. The chemical of course as you know can detect the existence of starch. The result is apparent.

I am not sure of this kind of story, especially of the reason why the islanders came to know that. Anyway, as far as their behavior is concerned, it can be valued as power of humanity and therefore now, entering such an era of technology, any scientific and technological activities should always be started and established from and with humanity, otherwise anything comes from the activities will be of life threatening.

How about this. If peaceful families from another countries worldwide moved in Ukraine and lived there next to next with Ukrainians and then helped them with daily life, production as raising wheat, with revival activity for war torn area instead of giving them weapons even though Russian offensive continued (but perceiving the war as a kind of natural disaster so once offensive has started, they all would take refuge to shelters), then even with the targets not only their enemy but also peaceful families from the world would Russians further continue their offensive? I mean, this kind of behavior can be a parallel of those islanders who lay next to fishermen to give them biological warmth. No! No! No! How can on earth peaceful families move in such a dangerous war zone and consider the war as natural disaster?
IMPOSSIBLE!
Or perhaps people who actually need to be saved with such way of salvation could be Russians.

Brownian Motion, how has such an issue of “looking like Random” been logically treated?

When I was an elementary school student, I learned it on science encyclopedia. Mr. Robert Brown, a botanist, born 1773, found the phenomena.
He observed through microscope a strange movement of pollen on the surface of water. He, then, verified that it is not driven by something of biological.

Several scientists or academics have attempted to build a theory and mathematical model of this strange phenomena, namely Thorvald N. Thiele, Louis Bachelier, Albert Einstein and Marian Smoluchowski.

For something looks like random, a theory and mathematical model, is it possible?
Yes! Possible!

One of our teachers (I call him so on my own selfishly) Mr. Einstein, applied “probability density function”. Probability! Once I had an impression of ambiguous with it but actually having grown through a life of an engineer, I can somewhat share a degree of rationality in applying probability.

To my surprise, by Mr. Einstein’s theory determined are the size of atoms, and how many atoms there are in a mole, or the molecular weight in grams, of a gas. Mr. Einstein once stated that God doesn’t play dice. But then what about Brownian Motion?

If such process as calculation of the size of atoms etc. works properly even with probability, then there is nothing like “dice” in the process. Hereunder being put is the reference to an equation on Brownian motion from the famous Wikipedia

That famous discussion on quantum theory was won by Copenhagen. Then the concept of probability in quantum physics has been “temporally” accepted though many academics are still thinking of it as an issue, saying that maybe another further sophisticated way rather than relying on probability can never be ruled out.

In the above reference equation, you see symbol Φ as probability density function, which was also the main focal point in that discussion on quantum theory. In Schrödinger equation, Φ symbolizes wave functions of the electron and it does not say exactly the location of an electron rather describes what can be observed. In this regard, introducing probability gives us a degree of rationality.

So, let’s return to the topic “Brownian Motion”. In the phenomena, atoms intermittently hit the pollen. So many patterns of hit and run. At that time, when I found it on scientific encyclopedia I thought that it might be possible of air flow rather than movement of atom.
Also I was wondering that how Mr. Robert Brown was getting aware of it as something worth enough to consider. Anybody may even not notice it!

Indeed, I have forgotten about “Brownian Motion” until I have recently surfed websites about Fractal for my blog. https://rinotaka84.com/2022/06/17/fractal-geometry-everywhere-nowhere-whenever-but-obscured/
Now, knowing it as rational problem-solving-process and his marvelous sense of exploration, I will add Mr. Brown as one of my teachers selfishly.

Yes, I have just found it wonderful the science is. In Japanese “Omoroy-yan”.

I know that there are some people who attempt to apply the theory of Brownian Motion to economy. Do they want to make a lot of money? In physics, it is utilized of course with other law of physics as basic conditions, such as conservation law. Do they put such condition on theory of economy? If an individual gains tremendous amount of money, then others cannot even get an amount sufficient for daily life. That is conservation law in economy, don’t you think? If Brownian Motion is applied to economy, then the system of economy should be equipped with conservation law. I am not communist rather supporting capitalism as driving force for human development, but at the same time, putting importance on equality and healthy wealth concentration and distribution.

Because of its nature, “random”, it would not allow any extreme wealth disparity, if it were a part of mechanism of economy, I just imagine.
Brownian Motion in this regard gives us an idea of how human should behave. Kind of , you know, “Freedom”, I suppose. Now getting drunk, my statement is getting like Brownian Motion, it seems.

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Lactose, its long time relation with human being

Lactose, a substance that is contained in milk. It provides nourishment with human and it is easy to obtain through domesticating mammals like cows or horses. However, it is not always a perfect thing for human.

Some people is tolerant to it, some are not. So called lactose intolerant is a typical issue for human eating habits. This lactose intolerance shows certain characteristic with geographical or human race distribution. In some areas, lactose intolerance is rare, in others it is frequent.

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This focus on nutrition winds around to what is the most nutritious food that would have been available to modern humans over the past five or ten thousand years. We finally come to the conclusion that milk is a well-balanced food that provides all three critical macromolecules—protein,

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Typical state of lactose intolerance is stomach pain, diarrhea etc. A person who is intolerant to lactose experiences problem with digestion when the person takes milk.
The mechanism; the person does not have enzyme lactase that plays a role of breaking down it into glucose and galactose.

Anyway, there are certain people who is tolerant to lactose indeed. Why they can be ?Yes, on a whole, human became tolerant to lactose out of necessity throughout its evolution. Human attained the capability from their eating habit. For instance, some nomadic tribes take milk from their livestock. So, they naturally were able to adapt to lactose because milk was one of rare source of vital nutrition due to its relatively stable availability. If the tribes people cannot adapt it, they will lose a chance of survival.

How human body got aware that it is necessary to be tolerant? This function is basically programmed in human DNA, it seems. However, this DNA function have not always existed rather sometime in a past DNA mutated into such form somehow. Maybe some kind of signal was being transmitted to DNA so that DNA could sense the necessity of mutate it self, academics are still seeking the answer though.

In the footsteps of my lactose-intolerant ancestors

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/in-the-footsteps-of-my-lactose-intolerant-ancestors

So, for modern humans, that mechanism of “let DNA learn” is still working?

What if present food becomes not available anymore? Can we be adapted to another food which are not considered as food presently?

This kind of function might be of lessons-learned System of Lifeforms. This could be one of the key element of “Survival of Fittest”.
Is it involved by brain? How human brain can work with DNA in such a stabilized and rigorous manner?

Now a days, environment is rapidly changing. So, in a future, human might face a situation in which daily normal food is no more available and then a new type of food is sought nevertheless though DNA mutation for human to adapt to it is necessary.
Then new chemical substance will be developed, a kind of vaccination that can mutate DNA in a way that it can attain new function; “tolerant to a new type of food”.
Assuming that, in such a terrible era of food crisis, only available source of food is human droppings! Oh my god! Then special vaccination is developed ————-.
Can you eat it? Or else you choose the destiny of extinction?

Ok, let’s flee from such an extreme. DNA is learning it, means everyone is learning it. Therefore, By only evaluating an individual on the academic score or amount of income or family roots etc. can surely be of loss of possibility of the very survival of human being because nobody knows whose DNA can have it. Oh therefore, me myself maybe a special VIP for all human being like the fox in “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Or else, if DNA eventually becomes driving force for human discriminations,
I will stand against it. I think lactose tells us that being individual is human freedom. It has given a person what has been necessary respectively for a long period of time.