Sunday, April 18, 2010

mystery... as soon as you figure it out it is (not) gone

    Many of the posts here are saying how many people pay too much attention to electronic devises to be able to notice the mystery in life. Whereas I feel that to be generally true I do find that I can see mystery in practically anything. A computer seemingly shouldn't be mysterious. Man is the one who made them after all and knows how they work, but as humans we are unable to comprehend everything about them. It is so difficult to understand or comprehend that polarized light being filtered through electrically manipulated crystals is what is forming the shapes of the words which I am now typing, or that thousands upon thousands of little switches, so small that there size is counted in atoms, inside little chips, which are smaller that an ant, within this computer, which is smaller than a fairly sized book, are responding to the minuscule actions of my fingers to trigger the change of the crystals inside the screen to change the amount and type of photons that reach my eyes.
    Split an atom and you get parts from that atom: protons, neutrons, and electrons. Split these and split what you get from them and continue on and you get quarks, scrutons, and many other little particles which men have no idea of what their is function or have not yet even discovered and named.
    The mystery in this world is infinite. Man cannot hope to find an end to all of ts. Every discovery generates more questions than answers. It may answer a specific question, but the knowledge gained causes more questions. When someone discovers something new they then must find out what it is; what its function is; whether is it beneficial, harmful, or neither; how it works; how can it be used; and so on, each question answered brings forth more questions. If one finds something to be harmful they must find why it is harmful, how harmful it is, how the harm can be repaired, if the harmful object can be neutralized, and so on with each answer bringing forth more questions.
    I think that scientific mysteries are of lesser importance than many of the other types of mystery discussed in other responses on this blog, but since they have been, for the most part, exhaustively discussed, I shall not talk about them here.
    I will finish, therefore, by saying that when you figure out something, the mystery (or better yet the wonder) in it is not unnecessarily gone. Why is the sky blue? (I mean really. Forget about the smurf idea!) Why does an aurora borealis happen? What causes lightning? If you look up the answers to these questions, will there still be wonder, amazement and mystery? I think so!

1 comment:

  1. Wow, I didn't really mean to write that much! I had better get studying for my Spanish test.

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