Reflection of human life in Chemistry
Valeri Diveev,
Bachelor in Science
Limitation of instrumental means in science and absence of strictly grounded conceptions leave the basic question of philosophy as relation of human’s material and spiritual parts unsolved, regardless on the diversity of the present doctrines.
Today to be definitively recognized in public those doctrines must be confirmed by science and have a direct connection with human life.
Traditional religions often lose their adherents for many reasons, especially for their isolation from dynamic modern human life and achieved high level of modern science, technology and human’s consciousness. Today daily human life changes so fast while religious doctrines remain motionless. The absence of knowledge of sense of human’s existence does a life of modern ordinary man aimless, useless, impersonal or just be oriented to get more material wealth.
The goals, which expressing an active party of human’s consciousness, have to be in accordance with objective laws, real possibilities that gives a life to a man and at present time those possibilities seem to leave those goals behind.
But where the traditional methods of science can’t help, the method of analogy and similarity (1 -2) could be successfully employed because there is no limits in human’s imagination and fantasy, and considering that this method have been already used with success in different fields of researches.
Even on superficial view many of surprising reflections of daily human’s life could be found in chemistry ( organic, analytical, physical, etc). In both cases the same terminology is often used. It can’t be attributed only to the poverty of human’s language. More reasonable to assume that if two different phenomena could be described using a same terminology, then they maybe have the same nature or origin, or at least, have something common. Considering the human’s body is been consisted of innumerable amount of organic molecules, therefor it can, at least, reflect certain proprieties of them.
Then organic chemistry ( 3 ) is a vast field for searching those reflections ( forming and rupture of bonds, substitution, elimination, forming of cycles) and learning the human’s life through molecular mechanisms.
An other side, physical and intellectual evolution of a man through centuries and generations could be compared either with process of fractional distillation and filtration (4) or with process of moving of the substance through chromatographic column (5).
Beginning with distillation and refining we could indicate the several common signs.
First, in both cases the point of depart is raw material (crude oil or primitive man) and the final point is fine product ( fine petrol, kerosene, etc) or fine people having beautiful body, high intellectual and moral level). Nobody can deny the definitive progress which have been made in human evolution during the centuries.
Second, between these two points there is a vast distance that can be achieved only by a great amount of cycles either evaporation – condensation in fractional distillation or dearth-birth through generation in human life.
The whole process of human’s evolution can be represented as a transformation of raw material having low value in fine product with more value. It seems familiar if we’ll have a quick look on theory of reincarnation ( 6-7 ) where gradual evolution of consciousness passes through many-timed cycles birth-death. This evolution looks like a permanent enrichment of distillate in more volatile fractions during the process of fractional distillation of raw oil by separation the light fractions which we can match with spiritual part of human life, from heavy ones, identifying as material part.
Third, on the different stages of distillation and refining of oil the different products have been obtained with different values. According to this, every human has to have its value depending of intellectual, moral, physical qualities; its label code as the trait- codes that are marked on the goods for sale. Everybody would be upset while expecting to get fine product, to get a product with low value, instead. It’s like obtaining a fuel oil instead of petrol or kerosene.
The evolution physical and spiritual, liberation from defects,
enrichment intellectual, the achievement of the high moral and educational level could be determined as sense of human life. The latter has to be spend with maximum profit on every stage, to be done finally as fine product, to be sold at high price, to be consumed usefully, and not to be placed on recycling or even worse, to be removed to garbage.
Everybody has to grow spiritually, the faster the better, to reach next level which location in any time depends on the relation: spiritual– material in human life.
The number of cycles can vary from one person to another and the speed of evolution, like the speed of migration for each component in chromatography, is specific for everyone and de-pends on its personal qualities and on environment. In this case a stationary phase is an equivalent of material part of human life and mobile phase is an equivalent of spiritual part.
In chromatography the speed of the molecules have been moved through a column depends on the its coefficient of partition between two phases which, in its turn, depends on the time which molecules spend in mobile phase and on the time that they spend while have been adsorbed on the surface of stationary phase. And an advancement of molecules through column occurs only when they are in mobile phase (8).
Like this, people always share their life between material and spiritual parts and the speed of their evolution depends on how much time they spend in the latter and not in the former.
Some of people devote more time for their spiritual growth ( science, art, music, literature, religion, dreams, love, etc). For others the material part is more important ( money, food, sex, goods, etc ) Those two categories of people are incompatible. They often can’t even meet each other spending their life in different spheres.
Unnecessary to say that the people from the first category are evolving faster than those of second one, who, have been strongly attracted by material part, spend their time among similar people, trying to get more and more material wealth, not allowing to the others to approach, pushing them away. As result they are evolving slowly.
Depending of their partition coefficients, which are specific, people are evolving with different speed. Usually, most of them could find themselves in the middle o f Gauss curve of distribution of population ( the “golden mean” ) and the same terms as standard deviation, average, coefficient of variation could be used to describe this population.
As internal factor influencing evolving, we can name heredity. As externals ones: level of life, country, family, meeting with others people who can promote or detain the movement ( spiritual growth ). Earlier or later each component, if only it haven’t been absorbed irretrievably by stationary phase, has to leave the column and be detected, identified, and evaluated quantitatively. So, nobody can escape from identification and evaluation (it looks like the god’s judgement ). Everybody will see its own unique chromatogramm consisting of small or big, large or sharp peaks, indicating different qualities of person and reflecting its behavior during whole life. Everybody during his life is permanently forming its own chromatogram and has a possibility to improve, to change, to develop or to lose some-thing, having a relative freedom and the standards to take an example from them.
Another surprising analogy could be found in spectroscopy ( absorption, emission, fluorescence) where selective absorption of radiant energy by substance could be compared to ability of people to learn something differently ( depending of its personal qualities and energetic characteristics) from vast spectrum of influence of environment ( cosmos, science, religion, art, music, politic, poesy, other people, etc). Or emission of characteristic radiation by excited atoms to a capacity of people to express themselves throughout a specific behavior or their activity in different fields. Like substances that have different coefficients of absorption on different wavelengths, with their maximums and minimums have been situated in the different parties of spectrum, every man has different capacities to learn something from surrounding world, to develop some qualities inside itself, to create, to do inventions, to behave oneself, to influence on the others or just reflect some parties of spectrum having too low coefficient of absorption to those wavelengths. A genius is a man who has a highest coefficient
of absorption (capacity on special field, for example, music, art, science, etc) and a mediocre man is one, which spectrum is exempt from any maximums.
The difference between two neighboring levels corresponds to a difference in spiritual growth, and by analogy with quan-tum theory ( 9 ) where to pass from one energy level ( or state) to another a definite quantity of energy ( knowledge) have to be consumed ( acquired) . Everyone having different spectrums of absorption, has a different capacities to emit ( create, behave, influence, etc ). From surrounding world, some one can make a big progress by means of selective absorption and another one can just be a primitive consumer while absorbing with low selectivity. But to be an all-round developed person, man has to absorb in different parties of the spectrum. It means that by means of education, information, etc different types of people could be formed and by limitation of influencing factors a society of consumers, primitively oriented ( to sex, money, etc) people could be created.
The ability of people to enter in different relationships maybe compared with the proprieties of the atoms ( molecules) to form different types of bonds: ionic, covalent, metallic and molecular. In first approach we can associate ionic bonding with relationships between a man and a women, covalent bonding with friendship, metallic bonding with politics, science, art, and molecular bonding with nation, or nationality. By ma-king projections from molecules towards humans many common signs could be found..
The origin of ionic bonding is a presence the centers of negative and positive charges in the molecules have been consisted of different functional groups of atoms.
According to Orbital Theory, atoms are consisting of positive charged nucleus have been surrounded by layers of negatively charged electrons with several types of orbitals ( s, p, d, f) on each layer corresponding to a different state of energy, having a different forms and participating in forming the links with the others atoms ( molecules ) while have been activated by absorbing of the energy. Depending on a structure of atom, which has been determined by its position in periodic table and of the type and the quantity of energy absorbed, different types of the orbitals could be activated and different types of bonds can be formed (3).
As the organic molecules that could be very different the people could be primitive, ordinary, fine, brilliant. From gene-rations to generations, for all human history, people are forming themselves as product and enriching their spiritual part, beginning from primitive instincts to abstract thinking and putting more and more energy layers with more complicated orbitals around nucleus.
The orbitals of low energy (s, p) seem to be responsible
for low spheres of human life ( level of instincts: sex, fear, hunger, hatred, etc) and they are more accessible and could be easily activated under influence of definite factors. The orbitals of more high energy (d, f ) are less accessible and associated with high spheres of human consciousness ( intellect, nobility, love, culture, artistic perception, etc). Every human express himself throughout his specific behavior which have been noticed by others people. Under influence different types of orbitals could be activated and different links between people could be formed. Depending on the wave vibrations that could be on phase or antiphase, mutual attraction or repulsion could result.
A type of relationship depends on the type of orbital which is participating in bonding. The most easily comes up the bonding on sex basis due to a lightness of overlapping of the low energy orbitals, which are easily accessible and activated. Primitive people while having just low energy orbitals were living chaotic primitive sexual life. More energetic layers have been formed more orbitals could participate in bonding, so relationships become more many-sided, more strong. But on the other hand those orbitals could be less accessible, so more selective is a choice, more complicated approaching.
As all bonding yields to saving of energy, as people make alliances to save their energy, to keep energetic balance favorable. Like molecules that could interact one with others, to form the bonds and to break when a more favorable balance is found, people are looking for partners, alliances, friends, community in order to keep their energy.
Another reflection of human behavior we can find in reactions of oxidation - reduction ( 8) where gain or loss of electrons, as result of reactions, could be compared with gain or loss of energy as result of different kind relationships between people. We can associate the oxidizing potential with ability of person to take energy from another ( like vampire ). For a couple if difference between those potentials of partners is too big comparable with a difference between strong oxidizing agent and strong reduction agent, then somebody is dominant and another is submissive.
Human’s life also could be compared with chemical reaction. Duration of life as chemical reaction depends on thermodynamic and kinetic factors ( heredity, conditions of life, meeting with others people, stress, illness, climate, etc ) The life starts to progress rapidly at beginning until some limit ( period of transition ) is achieved and then starts to slow down and stops. As a chemical reaction, duration of life could be accelerated with use of catalysts ( drugs, stress, alcohol, tabacco, inappropriate food, etc) or could be slow down using inhibitors
( vitamins, sport activity, absence of stress and of negative information, etc ).
In quantum chemistry (10) the reflections of human life could be found in analysis of such theories as particle in box, tunneling.
To all have been said above we can add that all scientific experience has proved that availability of many coincidences between two different phenomena can’t be accidental.
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