The Philosopher and the Dreamer Will Survive

Reflection: #027

When you look at NASA pictures, you always find yourself exposed to surprises.  I am amazed by beautiful landscapes. What is surprising can be an unknown place with its strange forms of mountains.

I am still only talking about geological forms and leaving the biological part to the imagination.

I imagine a world far and different from ours—with a different atmosphere, or without the air we have come to breathe.

More gravity would tire you out on a short walk, or if there was less, you could jump like a grasshopper.

Maybe there are only a few places without life.

If you look at the photos, you can be sure that there are life forms here and there—and even beyond, though not in the afterlife.  Now and then in history, astronomers have observed the explosion of a star—a sun.

The phenomenon is called a supernova. At the moment of explosion and expansion, all life on the planets surrounding this star is extinguished in seconds.

By the way, this will also happen to us.  An alien world looks strange and futuristic—and it is, or they are, because there are countless inhabited worlds.  NASA brings these worlds of distant galaxies from distant times to our computers. Each image is a reproduction of creation.

I have religious respect for each image. I have no choice but to look at and admire the moons, the planets, the stars, and the whole universe, which appears in pictures of all frequencies that science can transform into photographs visible to us.  The philosopher was once very influential in opening the minds of scientists—giving them the courage to think about strange things and discover new ways of working in their sciences. When the philosopher says—or said—that it is not the will of a god if you die of an illness, the doctor hurried to apply some home remedies.

If religion or a sect teaches that if you have to die today by God's will, a vaccination, blood transfusion, or surgery will not help you, no one will look for better medicines.  The philosopher opened the way for many and closed it for others—for thousands of years.

Today, the philosopher no longer knows in which corner of the universe he can speculate. Scientists with sensors and spy satellites are everywhere.

Computers are the philosophers of today. What a computer analysis says is the truth and the way forward for all.

There is almost no place for the believer or the dreamer.  But the multitude of creations and combinations of chemical, gravitational, and radial forces is so complex that there will not be enough time in this universe to see, calculate, and understand everything.

Then the place of the philosopher—and even more so of the dreamer—is secured.  Greetings to you, the observer and dreamer.  

Josef Bauer