Gravity of Life

Life.

What is life?  was wondering and pondering over this question for long. 

There are things that have life (humans, insects etc.,) and that do not (rocks, metals, water etc.,). That's how we understand living and non-living things on this earth. So what makes life and living?

Did not get any closer. so asked the opposite question of what is death and came up with this article.. "Purpose of Death". Sort of understand what life is. a bit closer but not close enough.

This question was alive. In the mind.

Life is some thing that works against gravity. This was an answer that popped up. It was not through any forceful logical thinking. but a push from within the mind. something like an instinct.

On further analysis, I could trace it back to my child hood dream of creating an anti-gravity device. Just like most kids do. Listen to Mahabharata or Ramayana. Any one would.

Exploring further and listing out the six different physical phenomenon

Electricity -   Can be blocked (Switch)

Magnetism -  Can be diverted (faradays cage)

Sound        -  Can be blocked (Insulators)

Light         -    Can be blocked (Reflectors)

Heat          -     Can be blocked (Insulators)

But Gravity.

One day I happened to visualize myself holding a gravity shield (a sheet of special imaginary fiber) above my head. The shield was between earth and sun. Could imagine the earth drifting away from its orbit and started moving out of our solar system.

Nature will not allow a gravity shield to be discovered by anyone. if nature allowed, planets would not be able to stay in orbit. From then stopped thinking of inventing a gravity shield.

Many years passed. 20 years plus. Another passing thought. The thought that, anything that lives is able to stand, fly or swim.  Things that live, breathes oxygen. Once the breathing stops, we fall flat to the ground. Gravity takes over once the breathing stops.

The core of life should be oxygen. For oxygen to combine with any other element or molecule, it should resonate with a certain vibration.

Think of this example. A match stick does not burn by itself. The molecules in the match stick head should be given sufficient vibration (energy) for atmospheric oxygen to combine with it.

On a similar note, the cells in the body or what ever is responsible for metabolism should resonate with oxygen. If that vibration (energy) is not sufficient enough, there is no life.

So the next journey begins. What is that which resonates with oxygen?

Could life be anti-gravity?

After Thought:

A small seed sown in the earth grows into a full blown plant or tree. The seed has something in it to germinate. At the same time, a massive dead tree is decomposed by the microbes in earth. May be the microbes know about life. The energy. The thing called life.

Now

That which is neither the past nor the future. Now is equal to plancks time.

Planck Time : t_p = 5.39 × 10^-44 s

Before we could get to present, lets understand past and future.

Past is the one we experience through our sense organs. What we see through our eyes or hear through our ears are events that happened some time in the past. light and sound travels with some fixed velocity. we may say all our physical experiences are from the past.

we may at times see the past in our dreams. so past is also from our memories (which in-turn are from our experiences).

Future happens in our mind. it is the one that is projected from our past experiences and experiences are gained through our sense organs.

Now. Now is neither past nor future (similar to absence of light being darkness).

Dictionary Definitions of Now: That which is immediate or in the present time.

So, what could the words Immediate or Present mean?

Philosophical Perspective (From Swami Vivekananda): Present is the duration between an inhalation and exhalation. There is no past or future ( when our body looses the ability to breath).

Physiological Perspective: That's approximately linked to the rate of breathing. Could be 10 secs for a human being at rest (it can increase or decrease depending on the activity we are involved in)

We can go on... Now is the time between our birth and death, live one day at a time... it goes on...

So, how small is now. Scientifically, it could be equal to plancks constant.  Its could be in terms of energy (plancks constant) or space (plancks length) or time (plancks time) or mass (plancks mass). 

Spiritual Perspective: The state of being in which there are no sensory inputs or mental thoughts. The state of meditation. the state of stillness.  the state of experiencing  plancks time. the eternal state of bliss or being one with atman.

In being one with atman may be we can travel through this universe back and forth in time effortlessly or getting to understand that, being in this physical form, absolute now is an impossibility. This could be meaning of awareness.

May be we can say NOW depends on form, sensory inputs and state of mind (human, tree, bacteria, muon etc).

If we have to be in the NOW, we got to be space or time or mass or energy. Everything is derived from us.

Ha ha. That's more like saying "You are God"

Note:

Sensitivity of our sense organs may also be considered as another perspective towards "Now". Eyes have approximately 15ms sensitivity (24 frames per second for a movie). Ears have 30 ms sensitivity (reason why we hear echo). Touch should also be within 30ms limit (experiment by moving a finger across a candle flame).  Taste and smell should also be within the same range of 15 to 30 ms (not sure of how to conduct an experiment for this).

So "Now" could be a time between 15 to 30ms range from the perspective of sense organs.