Where are we going

By NITISH JOSHI

Explanation of what has happened, what are the problems we are facing right now, and what we need to do about it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781716541049

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Where are we going

By

Nitish Joshi

Contents

Contents

Universe

Earth

Life

Greed

Improvisation

Youth

System

True Democracy

We, the people

Hate, Violence, and Love

Generation

Climate Change

Journalism

India

Social Network

Psychology

Artist/ Creator/  Inventor / Scientist

Religion and Belief and Extremism

Pollution

Conclusion

Life, Nature, World, Ecology, Economy, Politics, Religion, Food everything has so much to struggle and so much yet to realize. As humans when we think about life, what we think about it? We, as humans always have come through with the struggle and scarcity we have faced for generations. We don’t know what is next, we are uncertain about the future but we can assume what the future has for us, don’t we?

As human beings we are always calculative, our calculative mind works for us day and night. It just needs some oxygen, blood, and energy to function continuously, that is all. As history says, in B.C. humans were killing animals for food. They did not know anything about civilization. All they did was to wake up, find their prey, and kill it, eat it, and sleep without thinking about the next day. Then there was nothing. They knew to kill something for food, sleep somewhere they feel safe. No one was there to tell them what is right and what is wrong.

Because of fire, wheel motion and other inventions and innovations helped them civilize. They understood farming, living near the river for the comfort of food. They started to build there own homes. They started to live in a family. The families became communities and then something strange happened. Also, that strange will continue and grow systematically until the end.

Universe

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. - Stephen Hawking

There are theories about how the universe got created. Till the date, we believe the big bang theory the most perfect brief on how the universe got created and all we can do is believe because the universe is billions of years old. From samples, scientific theories, and experiments we believe this observational evidence.

Big bang theory says that our universe began with an explosion of space itself and starting from extremely high density and temperature space expanded. The universe then cooled and the simplest elements formed. Gravity gradually drew matter together to form the first stars and the first galaxy.

However, within every theory, there is one word or a glimpse of it, which is common and that is the Energy, a forceful exertion, or ambitious drive. Now, we know what energy means but shouldn’t we understand energy more? Before that let us continue with the universe. As we have named our galaxy the Milky Way galaxy which includes billions of stars. There are many stars like the sun or there may be many civilizations like us we don’t know yet. Still, somewhere in deep self, we think that civilization will be more super than us, and if they find us what will happen to us or what can we do then?

We have walked on the moon, we have identified other planets and galaxies as well. Our star, the sun which has an enormous amount of energy, and in the future sun itself won’t be able to manage its energy within the system. Our solar planet system is made up of 8 planets, dwarf planets, and dozens of moons and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. Jupiter’s mass is more than 300 times that of earth and the Sun’s radius is 10 times more than Jupiter. Our solar system is more than 4 and a half billion years old.

Isn’t it mesmerizing how gravitation bound in the solar system plays a role? How significant everything is put on a place and how everything works like a six sigma. Sun is 150.39 million far from earth. Can we imagine if earth gets closure to the sun just 100 km? On the other hand, Can we imagine if get 1000 km far from the sun? Without the moon, we likely may face extreme weather or ice ages. It is like a machine, everything is in place, works like day and night unfailingly.

However, is this perpetual? It will work like this continuously for the indefinite time? No. When the sun will die because of hydrogen fuel at the core, which will finally be exhausted in five billion years when the sun will be 67% more luminous than at present which marks the end of the sun’s life. Thereafter it will pass through the subgiant stage and evolve into a red giant. But will earth wait for that long? No. Earth will die before that, early, very early. But