This is from the minutes of an international seminar.
All the participants were super scientists. It was after a global
catastrophe, in which almost half the world population perished in it
some three billion persons in total. Almost all the communication
infrastructure was in shambles. The year was 2111. Most of the major
science establishments were in jeopardy, because many top ranking
scientists also perished in the catastrophe. It was believed that it
was a terrorist attack, from an unknown place, some opined that it
was from a remote underground place in in Sahara deserts, others that
it was from a nearby planet that was recently made habitable. That
was established when most security agencies got busy, with public
attacks against mis-governance.
A small group of eminent thinkers, who were leading an
almost retired life in remote thinly populated places and hence
survived the attack, were the invitees for the seminar, sponsored by
a philanthropic institution, they were all transported to the venue
in private aircrafts. The venue, an obscure village called Ramana
Ville, somewhere in an Indian state called Sikkim. The date is
October 31, almost 10 months later. But, still many confirmed and
made arrangements for gruesome travel. About 210 persons finally
managed to participate. They included persons who had been active
biologists, physiologists, technologists, medical professionals,
psychologists, physiologists, geneticists, space scientists,
sociologists and even some modern astrologers, journalists and
philosophers among many others.
The inaugural meet was scheduled in the evening. Very
few knew each other, but no need was felt for formal introduction.
The president of the organizing committee, started with an
introduction. His name is Kalshree. Here is an excerpt of his talk:
Friends, we have gathered here to recapitulate, what led
to this Catastrophe. Let me try to do it as briefly as I can. Many of
us would know some fragments. I will refrain from a long speech. Let
each one of us share from her/his memory. I think it will indeed be a
memorable seminar. I handover it to you all.
An
old person almost 100 years old, was the first. His name Charlie
Hallen. He said:
“
I remember it was in 2011. Human population residing in urban areas
was suddenly taken by surprise. A change in attitude was easily
discernible. Social protests are widespread, almost everyone appeared
to be very anti establishment, anti status quo. Why, no one had a
clue!! Sociologists, psychologists are struggling hard to find a
clue, a viable theory or hypothesis. Not very long ago, similar
happened about two decades ago. That was when, very many revolutions
took place, It started with Egypt, India, Syria, Libya and then to
even USA, Germany, Russia and Spain. In India, there were large
crowds in support of anti corruption movement, spearheaded by a
social activist named Anna Hazare, in USA it was an anti Wall Street,
eventually it all led to some changes in the political systems, but
it soon appeared to have subsided. But, all of a sudden it had
revived again, this time in even in China, Sweden and Norway that
were left unaffected in the previous unrest climate. All efforts to
contain it appeared to have failed. Why?
At
first no body paid much attention, thought it was a passing phase,
but as it persisted as earlier. But it persisted, for more then a
couple of years. All the media was agog, everyone was guessing.
Articles in press or blogs on the Internet, interviews galore about
it. But no apparent success. No one could hold ground foe long. It
was indeed was a wake up call for scientists of all hues, globally.
Theories, hypothesis were being put forward almost every week, but
nothing appeared attractive.
It
was then that an article appeared, it attracted a lots of attention,
it was attractive, indeed it set everyone considering.
It
was from an obscure scientist from India, but it made sense. He
talked of the bacteria in human body, he talked of extraterrestrial
influences. People were aware of Human Genome Project and it
phenomenal success, and its successor Humam Microbiome Project was in
progress. Some believed that indeed affect human attitudes, both
personal and social.
Articles
had earlier appeared in journals, I recollect from my personal notes
that It was known for many years that campylobacter jejuni is a
microbe whose infection increases anxiety-like behavior in mice
later it was established even in case of human beings. It was
reported, in peer reviewed scietce literature that areas of
brain-stem activation, such as the nucleus tractus solitarius and
lateral parabrachial nucleus, participate, presumably via the vaug
nerve pathway; in neural information processing that ultimately lead
to autonomic, neuron-endocrine and behavioral responses. These types
of experiments all supported the suggestion that the gut microbiome
may be intimately involved in the modulation not only of the
peripheral but also aspects of the central nervous system including
behavior.
I
also
recall
that
many
years
later,
It
was
shown,
that
this
bacteria
when
suddenly
exposed
to
electromagnetic
radiation
in
sub
infrared
range
of
frequencies
changes
its
interaction
with
several
other
microbes
in
the
human
intestine,
for
example,
when
campylobacter
family
of
microbes
were
exposed
to
radiation
in
the
range
of
30
GHz
– 1
THz
for
about
a
week
or
more,
show
enhanced
modification
of
mutual
interaction.
Also
it
was then reported by some space scientists, that Pluto and Uranus
the planets farthest away from Earth, do indeed emit such radiation
sometimes, that after being relayed through some asteroids in the
Kupfer Belt are received on the Earth in that range of frequency. So
it is implied that human body is really subject to these radiation
and do are the microbes that can enter the human body through
different routes. …..”
This
theory appeared viable, it had some sound experimental backing, based
on accepted observations. A reputed scientist of Indian origin,
Professor Aditya Subramani, got global recognition, not because of
the hypothesis alone, but because of sound falsifiable statements.
Experiments were conducted world wide, to test the hypothesis and the
results were positive.
Now
a scientist from USA Professor Atkinson joined in. He added: “Soon,
the markets got flushed with devices, that claimed to be able to
produce such radiations and affect human behavior. Many companies
flourished, the media was agog with advertisements. It was the year
2072, the human microbiomes were deciphered almost as much as the
genomes. Studies of the effects of many extraterrestrial radiation on
several microbes was the fashion among graduate students.
A
sociologist from France, Geneneve Sante then added: “Science, as we
all know, had spread far and wide, not just limited to some
prosperous countries. The limit of speed is no longer c, the speed of
light. Many more particles that can travel faster then light, in fact
as much as 10c have been discovered or hypothesized. 'Science' was
undergoing a revolution!
A
Space scientist Sumanna Raju then added: “Some people had started
to believe that human body and mind is not controlled by genomes or
microbiomes alone much else was hypothesized. For example, influences
of extraterrestrial bodies. It was discovered that some
extraterrestrial bodies need not be only planets in the solar system.
It is now known that many other bodies come close to our solar
system, periodically. Bodies space scientists had never detected all
through the history of science. Bodies that emit particles/waves that
can travel much faster, even faster then neutrinos. Particles/waves
that can penetrate through the skin and flesh of human body very
easily. It was discovered that they can influence not only a few
microbes present in the body, but even the biochemistry of the
interaction. how a particular kind of biomolecule can interact with
another.
A
sociologist from Brazil intervened at this point. He said: “ Yes,
science had indeed undergone a revolution in the next five decades.
It was no longer limited to certain institutes and laboratories,
located in a few countries, it got spread much thinly across the
globe. Any intelligent thinking individual, could be recognized as a
scientist. Even some astrologers! So when some people, said that
there are indeed bodies in the universe, that come close to the solar
system, after every century, people listened carefully, not with
disdain but with respectful skepticism. Because some people could
indeed prove it with experimental and empirical information. That had
been ignored so far, only because it was believed that only the
science of the western countries was the true science. Even
homeopathy, was accepted and the theory that even after much
dilution, some substances could indeed influence a human body. Law of
mass action is not universal! Students often wondered when the
studied history.
A
Nigerian philosopher Andrew Osgale added: “Just in a few
decades, scientists from the early twentieth century, started
appearing like alchemists did to students hundred years ago. The
names like Einstein, Heisenberg, Planck were like the names of Plato,
Socrates a century ago. The only doctrine that was gaining wide
acceptance, was the doctrine of change. People started believing that
this also was just a doctrine, not an eternal law. Because it was now
believed that there can never be any eternal laws, because they are
subject to change with time. Not just minor changes but in some cases
major changes. One of the changes was to accept the individuality of
each one. In the past it was almost assumed that every human being is
more like an automobile, with minor differences, that could be
accommodated easily. People started wondering, what next? This
appeared to be the ultimate of human thought. But, it assumed that
the status quo will persist. No one knew what could be the next
step.”
Another
philosopher from Spain Professor Feldman Gonzalez, added: My grand
father Dr Ruben Feldman Gonzalez, talked often of unitary perception.
He used to say that unitary Perception is is being aware of
everything perceptible, at the same time, right now, without naming
that which is perceived, without comparing and without effort. It
implies being conscious of something. Even while unconscious.
Perceptible means we are not aware of something only, but of
everything that crosses our field of perception. It implies that if
we want the brain to operate as a unit, expressing its maximum
potential, it is necessary to perceive everything perceptible at the
same time. His thought really influenced scientific thoughts in
decades to come.
A
physician from Indonesia, Grerard, Macvinta, present there now
added: It was appearing as if there was an epidemic of fast mutations
in genes. The genes seemed to be mutating very fast. Persons who had
no family history of diseases like cancer, diabetes, suddenly were
easily diagnosed to be suffering from them. Most often these diseases
were fatal. It started being evident somewhere around 2011, when it
was discovered that many more women had started to develop breast
cancer and many more men started having, bowel cancer or lung cancer
besides asthma attacks and heart attack.
The
geneticist, Regenna Fowls, present then added: It was some mutagen
very widely present in the environment. I remember some people had
even theorized that it was present in the omnipresent dust in cities.
People started thinking that some mutagens were present in the dust
particles. Many of us investigated, but the results were never very
conclusive.
The
astrologer from India, Ramamurthy added very briefly: For ages Indian
astrologers have based their predictions based on the age of the
universe. The universe passes through various ages as the time
passes, it is like cycles of time. I believe, many factors had
accumulated over the ages, and the catastrophe was a cumulative
effect. We do not know what is in store for us in near future, but we
can only hope for the best, and lead our life in a contented and
spiritual manner. That only helps, is my personal experience.
Irene
Tesonova, a computer specialist then added: But I think a very deadly
blow to the world was when suddenly many computer systems stopped
working, hundreds at a time. It was a tech virus. Since 2175 the
computer memory had become dirt cheap, the memory of the hard disks
was most commonly in the range of Terra-bytes, this was made possible
due to an innovation of little known origin, but it was so attractive
that it was lapped up by almost all computer systems, even corporate
and banking systems. All information was stored only on such systems.
But slowly it started revealing that something was amiss. Before any
one could realize what, lots of information started disappearing,
even of private assets. When it really struck, billions of people
were affected, in a matter of a minute. People lost all their
property records. It was, then that many many had fatal heart
attacks, with hardly enough physicians to attend to. Within a day
some half a billion persons passed away!
A
journalist added now, “ I recall that all the deaths in that
catastrophe were not only due to computer networks meltdown due to a
virus attack. I recall it was more due to the nature of material used
to manufacture the computer media, hard disks and others. Due to a
global economic downturn about a century ago, corporations were in
for quick profits, research quality control was dismal. So it was
possible to accept disks that were not thoroughly checked. As it
turned out all the disks had a life time of only twenty years. So
there was an expiry date but no body paid an attention, because of
the market pressures. And as the expiry date approached many disks
started collapsing. In the beginning it was a mystery, but by the
time mystery got unveiled, the catastrophe was there. It not only
affected the financial institutions, but even many nuclear power
stations. Nuclear accidents were very frequent. Mostly because of the
greed of the powerful.
At
the end, the chairperson, Kalshree concluded with a message:
We
all have suffered in the catastrophe, many of our close relatives are
no more, the grief is deep and will take several decades to heal. We
all have to contribute to the healing process. Perhaps, the best
would be to spread the lessons humanity has learned in this
catastrophe. We are very few, but we know a bit more and many will
listen to us, our responsibility is therefore manifold. I think, the
lesson we all have learned is that change is imminent, the path it
takes is unknown so we have to be humble. Its all a matter of time,
as the time changes at a certain point, many factors add up to bring
about a massive change, that we never expected, a catastrophe. To be
proud of any past achievements has its price, often unbearable. Greed
although a very human trait must be banished in the new society that
is being raised. Every king was once a crying baby, and every great
building was once a map, It's not important where you are today, The
most important thing is where you will reach tomorrow. Never be proud
of what position you hold, because after a game of chess, the king
and the soldiers go into the same box. We must try to be humble, as
wise persons, across ages have been saying. Only the humble passes
the test when the time for a catastrophe arrives. All of us, present
here had been humble, that is why we survived, and we will survive in
the future also.
Rakesh Mohan Hallen
