The winds,
the seasons, the woods and the varying moods that it presents every time we
spare few moments that each one of us is filled with a childlike glee as it
reveals itself to us. The literature is full of an unknown number of songs and
lyrics man has addressed to the Nature and built hypothesis about the working
of Nature.
Nature is
limited to the earth only. The vast sky is still more full of mysteries which
man has been discovering one by one revealing the secrets of nature. The
planets, the stars, the galaxies and the vast universe has been making man more
inquisitive and curious so with the advance in technology and science we have
successfully explored the whole phenomena.
Nature is a
phenomenon. It is just the stars and universe and planets and galaxies. The
real nature of Nature lies in its unique way of happenings. How they take place
and how they come into being and come to the final end. So the real secret of
Nature lies in the laws of nature, the very laws or rules that govern and guide
the whole Nature.
It is always
awesome to think of Nature and the scale at which it makes the things occur.
There is the unique law of gravitation, the law of magnetic field and that of
electrons which allow the movement and momentum. The earth completes one
rotation at its axis in almost 24 hours and one revolution around the sun in
365 days. It covers a vast distance every year and its speed around the sun in
the sky is about 1500 km per hour. The other members of the solar system too
move around the at various speeds and this has been happening since quite long.
The solar system is part of the galaxy where it moves around the centre of the
galaxy along with other solar systems.
Ours is not
the only one in the galaxy. There are several million others too about which
very little is known to us. We cannot access all of them nor we can measure
their movements. The galaxy is made of several million brightly lit stars. Our
Sun is also one of them. The whole galaxy is very vast that even light will
take about 6000 years to reach from end to the other. Our solar system is not
fixed in the galaxy. It is moving and the speed of our solar system in relation
to the galaxy is about 250 km per second and our galaxy, better known as Milky
Way is not stationery. Its velocity in respect of other galaxies is 300 km per
second. The speed of our earth in the space is (30X 300 X250) =2250000
kilometer per second and in an hour or so it
covers such a vast distance in the space that it never returns to its original
place. It is mind boggling to think of Nature moving at such a great velocity.
What makes
it happen and how does it manage to happen in a fool proof manner. Scientists
are already at it. They have first invented the device to measure the speed and
velocity so that some likeness could be established and subsequently they have
discovered some of the secrets of nature, the laws of nature.
What is a
law? It is almost same as a habit in human system. Anything that occurs again
and again becomes a habit. The same is true of a law. Every action that occurs
at certain regularity is thought of governed by some law and a scientist tries
to establish a relation between the action and the frequency and with the help
of his findings he tries to predict the same with certain level of accuracy
which is necessary to form the basis of the law. The hypothesis is tested again
and again and if the same result is obtained. This is how a law is established
and in the case of Natural laws, laws are only discovered. They are known as
the secret of nature.
Nature is
the sum total of all the phenomena that occurs and keep on occurring at all
levels of the world. In Physics we have physical laws, in Chemistry we have
chemical laws, that is how various chemicals behave with each other. Astronomy
is study of astronomical laws and predicts the movement of stars. Biology studies
the behavior of biotic components of the universe and microbiology consists of laws and rules that govern the micro-organisms;
how they develop and multiply and carry out harmful activities.
Although a
large number of natural laws have become an open secret for man and he has
learnt a lot of information about everything on the earth and now he is keen to
explore the hitherto unexplored nooks and corners, yet he is a few steps away
from defining Natural laws.
When it
comes to decide and define the natural laws, we safely shelve the matter in the
domain of divinity and ascribe the activities to some divine or super natural
element. But it is wholly incorrect and irrational. A true follower of science
will follow the scientific spirit of inquiry to reach as close to the origin of
Natural laws as possible. Stephan Hawking in his Brief History of Time
establishes the Big Bank theory that indicates towards the origin of the
universe and he has proved beyond doubt everything mathematically. Not
satisfied with the outcome of Stephen Hawking, the scientists have gone a step
further to prove the theory of Higgs-Boson Particle in the atomic structure of
every element. They have conducted a great experiment, the greatest of the
history of mankind and have established a few fundamentals on the basis of data
that they received during the experiment.
In the
nature everything happens because some other event causes it to happen. Some
event becomes the cause of other event and thus a chain like reaction has
established so far and it is going on at almost every level and scale. One
event is established as an effect of other and this is evitable and becomes unavoidable.
The formidable identity of Nature thus established comes to be known as
awesome. Nothing in Nature occurs without a cause and this happens everywhere
as per the Natural law. Big or small, the life on the earth and elsewhere is
strictly abide by the laws of Nature.
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