HUMANITY IS ONE ALL LANGUAGES CAME FROM ONE: ORISSA SPEECH : 2005

[Paper presented at the National Seminar on the Concept of Scientific Temper organized by True Rationalistic Union of Samaj-seva Trainers (TRUST) led by Nihar Acharya at Jayadev Bhavan Bhubaneswar on 18 th December 2005] PART II continuation of previous post ...

Panspermia: Seeds Everywhere

Nasa and European and Italian Space Agency spacecraft Cassini is beaming telemetry and images back from Titan the massive planet sized moon of Saturn. The conditions in Titan resemble our earth millions of years before life ultimately evolved. It has an environment rich in carbon based molecules that are capable of spawning self replicating DNA.

Panspermia literally means seeds everywhere. It is a theory, which maintains that life bearing proto spores, is prevalent throughout the Universe. Life on Earth originated when some of them landed on its surface and propagated. It also suggests that life could have existed in another planet and moved to Earth.

Humanity is one: All languages came from one

Humanity is one, yet we notice divisive tendencies. Dr.Russel Grey an evolutionary biologist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand published his results in Nature magazine co-authoring with his colleague Quentin Atkinson. In his submission he expressed confidence that a family tree of human languages could be constructed and its branching points dated.

If this happens a wonderful new window will be opened into human past. As biologists had drawn the family tree of genes and species, linguists too have started to use same mathematical tools to build a tree, which traces to the only one language spoken once upon a time which now had divided into 6000 and more languages. Dr.R.Madhivanan, a great Tamil scholar is emphasizing the need for language archaeology to dig at the roots of the first human language

Ultimate Universal Theories

Times of India in its editorial on 12 th October 2004 titled “Ends and Means” explains how Universal theories are coming to the fore in the following words. Quote:“ Einstein wanted to end it all, scientifically speaking. After his special and general theories of relativity earlier in the last century had revolutionized physics, he spent his last 30 years of life till his death in 1955 trying to find an even more generalized concept that would unite all the forces of Nature. Called the unified theory it was an attempt to understand every physical interaction and present it in as simple a form as e= mc2. He was only partially successful. Since then, though researchers around the world have striven hard in their efforts to lay their hands on what has come to be known as theory of everything-something that would comprehensively explain the entire universe from the smallest subatomic particles to the most massive galactic structures.

Discovery of New Species

Nature had been working overtime to create us humans in a variety of species spanning millions of years. This process had not reached perfection in homosapiens. A recent discovery unveils of a completely new species of humans who lived from 90000 years ago as late as 12000 BC before apparently becoming non-extinct. Identified by Australian and Indonesian scientists from a cache of fragmented bones buried in the sediments of a limestone cave on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, it has been officially named homo-floresiensis. They were not taller than a meter with brain size of a grape fruit.

Now we should also know what is in store in Nature and wherefrom dangers come to our earthly existence.What is happening in Nature?