Bad Things- Science Behind
I wandered lonely as a cloud — — — -is the bliss of solitude”(Wordsworth)
The hue and the cry of millions due to loss of more than millions life and the untold sufferings of billions due to COVID19,people saying like this-it’s unfair’. When we lose a dear and near one specially at tender age but the a bad one remains in the best of health, we used to outburst with tears-It’s unfair’.’where is the justice in God’s hand’? We take self contemplation by uttering-”God loves those who dies young”. Apprehension of bad things and unfortunate incidents across the way of life whispered from the meadows to the avenues of the metropolis. Still bad things happen in spite of a number of safeguards and precautions. Let us have the insights of the bad things and why bad things happen? Since the time immemorial of the dawn of civilization, a number of stories are transmitted in the different races and tribes irrespective of the religions and tribes.The most popular stories regarding the imperfection of the creation is the story of Dragon tribe of Africa.According to the folktales, the cosmic egg of the beginning of the world hatched twin babies.But out of the two babies, one hatched too early before the perfection and this imperfection is the cause of the bad things being happened across the globe.One of my old friends used to go to the horoscope to find out his good fate to start a new project and for confirmation of the destiny as told by the horoscopes, he used to visit the astrologer to find out its accuracy.The consideration of days and time so called ‘thithi’(moment) is a regular practice by many of the millions.People believe that the good or bad is a predetermined destiny.Even to overcome the ill eyes of ghosts or omens, the practice of worship even by the ultimate sacrifice is an old age practice even in the global village of 21st century. Taking Physics or medicine as a part of profession along with a number of rings blessed with god and goddess is not uncommon one.One of the largest business either online or off line is the business of gems for the sake of the ill omens.The electronic and print medias have the pleasure of the business turnover of millions today.Still bad things happen-but why?Let us take some examples that we used to face in our everyday life.Disease is a common bad thing but if we consider why does it happen, a number of explanation appears.Some used to say as a curse by ill omens(bad gods or devils) while others believe about the commitment in the earlier life .If your child suffers from high fever, you will believe that an enemy paid a witch doctor to cast a spell on her. My far off relative has a child with deaf and dumb and the people used to blame for heir commitment of sins.The people are thinking the COVID19 is a disease due to the commitment of sins by large mass.The earthquake or Tsunami are nothing but the sins of human beings.The good or bad things have been explained with the help of Sod’s law or Pang loss’s law or Pollyanna’s law. so, the most sensible question is -Why does anything happen?”The events and causes are quite synonymous to each other.Events have causes and the causes always comes before the event. Tsunamis happen due to severe earthquake mostly on he sea bed and the severe landslides on the Uttrakhand in India due to cloud blasts in 2018 in the upper Ganges belt that took thousands of life.The escapees in both the disasters are simply explained with the paradigm of good luck and bade luck.Is there any luck in the visual world.Is the winning of toss in any world cup cricket a matter of luck? I firmly believe that the word ‘luck’ is a glossary of astrology and there is no luck in the world-either good luck or bad luck.It is simply a matter of chance as defined by the law of probability as partially influenced by the environment and ecology(Nature or nurture) in general and toss event in any game in particular.It is a complete unscientific idea to improve someone’s luck by wearing a gems or doing anything .If anything is there is nothing but your psychological mind set.So, what about the illness-individual or mass? If the pandemic is there like COVID19 or the plague of Athens of 430 B.C or the disasters of devastating polio of America of early twentieth century or the death of an individual due to communicable diseases or organic failure or congenital diseases.The answers lying in the illness and the evolution along with the understanding of the Darwinian selection as a matter of the survival of the fittest as man is summarily treated as living machine.The hands of parasites are there in the communicable infections.The parasites are may be virus, bacteria, fungi, protozoa including the tapeworms, flukes etc.Another type of the diseases of the 21st generation are the diseases due to fast life style garnished with over-tension, over-eating, over — over in all respects to get more and more materialistic gain as well as gain of fame crowned with likes and dislikes in the virtual platform.The outcomes are high blood pressure, Stroke, heart attack, kidney damages like the mass killers of this century.Tradition and heritage are the pillars of the Indian society but with the hands of heritage, a number of the diseases are being carried from generation to generation like diabetes, cancer like issues. Congenital diseases are still have no answers in most of the cases. The bad things happen in the family and society is also a broad family and the fragility of the extended family is reflected when the bad things happen.When the body is attacked by the foreign invaders, immediately the disease and the symptoms do not appear. The body try to defend itself by the world war like attitudes to defend the microbes to defend and dispose off along with the memory retain in the RAM of the hard disk of defence system for the next encounter if required.The immunity system with the general of defence system-Inborn immunity & acquired immunity either by vaccination or the diseases play a pivotal role for the defence of the boy parts.Still failure needs medication to overcome from the bad things of the disease.The immune system has a difficult task deciding what is foreign and therefore to be fought and what should be accepted as a part of the body self.There is always a growing fight against the self and non-self of the body parts and the SOP for this action is very often tricky.The pregnant women bear a foreign body’(although 50% self) but the immune system has acclimatized not to treat as foreign particularly in certain aspects like non-compatibility of the RH factor of the mother and the baby particularly in the second issue of early pregnancy.Plenty of babies do manage to survive along with plenty of examples of miscarriages-bad things happen in the family particularly in their joyous movement of child birth.The body very happen become hyperactive creating allergenic reactions against the non-self cells and it becomes boomerang to the body causing the self death-The bad things happen due to anaphylactic shock.A few people so allergic to peanuts or egg or even pollen of Butea may cause the bad things of death.But there is a urge of balance by the nature guided principle following the path of natural se4lection-strong or poor for the sake of the continuity of life.Another bad things as told earlier is cancer where there is a competition among the body self cells with the cancer cells and supposed to spreads from one part to the other part during metastasis.The body’s own cells undergoing slight modifications make a strong wall to recognize them as foreign by the immunity system.The bacteria, fungi, protozoa, like disease causing agents can be killed by the different substances like antibiotics but the cancer can be treated by chemotherapy poison which not only kills cancer cells but also body’s own cells as they are almost identical.The over dose of the treatment protocol not only ki8lls cancer cells but also it can kill normal cells making a number of unavoidable side effects through conventional methods.But nanotechnology brings the ray of hope although the bad things happen until the life will reign in the blue planet.Another speculation is that if the autoimmunity is triggered , it can become an effective weapon against the cancer cells and his might be the evidence of evolution to combat against cancer as a means of evidence of evolution.Thus bad things happen-if man made like pollution, poverty can be minimized by the human itself but if bad things happen as natural calamities like earthquakes, tsunami, or the pandemic like COVID19, the answers lies in the understanding why the things happen.The black mountain of ignorance will be mined to explore the gems of truth and this burning flame of the truth will surly show us light in the’ lovely dark & deep’ life awaited for exploration.I believe-
“The morning will surly come,
The darkness will vanish,
And thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky.
Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds’ nests
And thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves” (Rabindranath Tagore).
