Man's Beautiful Curse

The Helix Nebula, only 650 light years away from Earth
image taken by the Hubble space telescope

The picture above is just one of the wonderful images that mesmerize us with its genuine beauty. If you're still craving for more, then I suggest you visit Hubble's Site. I can't wait to browse this site myself after all this schoolwork *wink*.

Throughout the years, only two main things have bothered our the most learned and the most curious: the origin of life and the origin of the universe. In the former, scientists are bothered with how life technically came from nothing -nothing more than just a combination of elements and organic compounds. If I were to ask in Biblical terms, who breathed life into them? Yes, eukaryotes evolving from prokaryotes seem easier to grasp but how the smallest unit of life began, remains a puzzle to be pondered on.

As for the universe's origin, scientists are also concerned with how it came into place. Did it just pop out of nowhere? Did it come from a big explosion known as the Big Bang? Or did it just simply exist, suspended in black nothingness as if strings were attached to it.

Fortunately, scientists are one step closer to the answer due to ceaseless and persevering studies and researches.

Thank God our scientists are not much of quitters.

And this is why I love and respect science, along with my other fields of interests: dance, art,music and communication. Science was never stagnant in the first place and though it is govern by laws, theories and other scientific rules, it is still subject to change, be it paradigm shifts, disproving of old laws and acknowledging new ones. Science is never stagnant because there is a A LOT (really) to discover and sticking to one rule could never get them that far. Just like with dancing, each type of dance has its own set or 'rules' or steps that dancers have to be faithful to. But the grace of the dancer, the attitude she portrays, how she plays with the steps (or rules), is up to the dancer herself and not subject to the rules anymore, not even to her instructor. The instructor can only guide her and teach the basics. Same goes for music and art -there are chords to be memorized, strokes to be mastered and other unspoken 'rules' yet their masterpieces are up to their creators. In communication, there are a lot of theories and strategies formulated but when you're on the job, let's say, advertising, it is also your call on how you apply the theories with your own thing in order to get that customer notice and buy the item you are marketing for.

"One must have to learn the rules in order to break them".

Artists are following this simple 'rule' -they can never create their own style nor leave a personal mark on their creations if they haven't even religiously mastered the basics yet. And I can say scientists could also be called artists -only that they deal with numbers and scientific thinking rather than chords or dance steps.

I am hopeful of science, hopeful that one day everything would fall into place, which excites and scares me at the same time. Just like the feeling when your best friend calls you in the middle of the night just to tell you something about your happy crush -you're dying to know what it is yet you can't help but feel anxious about it. You wouldn't know if you'll like what you're about to hear. Unless you're confident for some reasons <3.>
Glittering, colorful planets. Why not? Our universe is so vast and mysterious that almost everything we could think of under the sun is possible unless proven false. So why close our doors to aliens, extraterrestrial beings, parallel universes, time traveling, and all other things science fiction has taught us (hello Star Wars and Star Trek)?

And maybe this is why man is born restless. He is cursed to satisfy his never ending curiosity about himself and the world in which he lives in.