Having had explained the X Ray images taken by an orbiting telescope far out in space, and the forces at play as galactic events play out in the cosmos, black holes and disintegrating stars, mind boggling emissions of energy, enough to destroy our own galaxy, one is forced to wonder at the place of god in all this.
The energy released and destroyed is on the edge of physics as we know it. Far from stable it is destructive and its purpose more the elemental balance between mass and the forces which created the structure of mass in the first place.
Stretching the metaphor and on the opposite end of the spectrum I listened fascinated to a House of Lords sitting of one of these committees where it is able to test the minds of the experts, in this case the Immunologists and medical scientists who are leading the fight to understand the corona virus and ways to combat it. It was edge of the chair stuff and whilst my mind has not been trained to follow the relevance of many of the medical terms I was able to scale the wall, hanging on to the handholds of what I do know, for instance a virus contains the following components (a). A nucleic acid genome and (b) a protein capsid that covers the genome. Together this is called nucleocapsid. In addition many animal viruses contain (c) a lipid envelope and the entire virus is called a virion. These terms were batted around as they described the traumatic effect of the thrombosis in the blood vessels particularly in the lungs and the drugs used to try to offset the effects of the thrombosis.
And so we have the fields of scientific exploration. The astral with their long term observations and mathematical hypothesise and the short term rush of the medical scientist as they battle to understand the virus and find some sort of remedy to the destruction it produces.
Both worlds are fascinating and reveal more of what we don't know than what we do. One has an innate sense of security listening to these professors debate the findings and hypothesise, the opinions based on known facts and far removed from the political circus, the lies and deceit of a government who are their masters, at least as far as the funding to do their research is concerned.
Democracy was thought to be the best system of ironing out the prejudice of a dictatorship but with the manipulation of the electorate with its slavish use of the internet for information one wonders if the voting public is not too susceptible to the Machiavellian tricks of another Cambridge Analytica
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