Historical Items Can be Simply Fascinating!!
My History Page approaches some of the many, many places & events that “once were,” along with a few fun key facts & my future thoughts… choices here are unavoidably restricted, as my future ideas & “known” historical aspects (even of the last few years) would fill this page tens of thousands of times over!
History is one of the 2 subjects that I detested in my senior-school years (the other was Geography!!)… these classes were held 2 or 3 times a week (vs. Math, which was daily) and were *always* boringly focused (as I remember) on “where” / “when” / “places” / “people” / etc… this was what actually caused me to get such poor grades at the resultant half-term and end-term exams!
As a rather interesting fact, both of these subjects (along with all those countries, capitals, mountains, Kings & Queens, rivers, etc, etc) *absolutely* fascinate me today!! Perhaps the most significant fact here for historical events is that they are *completely unchangeable* no matter what some people might think; while time travel is certainly a concept, traveling back in time simply cannot happen…
Another fascinating thread is that we all live on the planet named Earth (where things can be “touched”) that is a part of our Solar System (details of which we can directly “see” with our eyes, even more with a small telescope) etc, where everything is surrounded by a force known as “gravity” which continues to remain a scientifically-defined mystery: all things are attracted to each other (like dropping something on the floor) yet it’s not known how this happens… Everything that is here is part of our Universe which is not fully understood today: the Big Bang, evolution, black holes, etc… as one of today’s proposed oddities: we live in a “bubble” universe, likely (IMHO) just imaginary!
Here are some interesting threads around my History views, followed by some of my Future Thoughts:
Note: small screens/iPhones distort this matrix
Where
When
Places
People
Where certain things of fascination (to my school teachers!) were found, like the Ancient Wars between England and Scotland, or the depths of the Chinese Dynasty and some others that I’ll delve into below…
About 100 years before my birth, a discovery in the Brixham Cave, Devon England of some animal bones (along with the remains of people) allowed a scientific analysis to enlighten our actual antiquities vs. the view that we were just the descendants of Biblical Adam & Eve… No-one *anywhere* had ever known anything about evolution prior to this, allowing knowledge to start to flow
Many apparently interesting “places” like Stonehenge (which is to be found in my Culture Room), Atlantis, as documented by Plato (the Greek) was an ancient city that vanished without a trace and the city of Paris, where there was a revolution in 1789 along with many others
So many highly boring “people” to me at my time of learning, like Robert the Bruce of Bonnie Scotland and that horny old man called The Genghis Khan, who may well be another of my Great Grandfathers!
If you’ve ever wondered about the validity/sanity of those “ancient history” stories (that surely do usually seem to be idiotic!) I found it interesting to watch Mr. Graham Hancock’s summary of why those less-understood 15,000-year-old places & people may have been destroyed by a comet that hit the Earth around 13,000… discovery continues!
To continue from those headaches that plagued me so in school, here are some memorable historical events:
- As a place that’s sadly becoming historical as we watch it in 2018, the Barrier Reefs around Australia are dying due to today’s massive climate change; they may never recover…
- The rivers, coasts and island beaches all relate to the concept “of all the fishes in the sea…” (once incorrectly said to be an A-Z acronym similar to “The Quick Brown Fox” which yours truly used often in the British Army) which is where many ancient fish still live. Millions of their ancestors are understandably gone from history due to evolutionary developments, like the 1st land animals…
- While science continues today to analyze the unbelievably ancient threads of the start of our ancestors, real clues are in this Biosphere report. It may seem surprising that bacteria can leave fossils at all, yet one particular group, the cyanobacteria (“blue-green algae”) have left us a far-back fossil record in the Precambrian, demonstrating their existence ~3.5 billion years ago
- Coastlines have always changed constantly… a place known as Gondwana (with another view) was formed around 550 million years ago from the Continental Drift of Earth, and is a prime example of an historically significant geographical transient place
My Future Thoughts |
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As you read my "visionary thoughts" in this summary, consider 1st the fact that unless each and every one of us finds a way to make changes to some of what we're doing on a daily basis,
climate change
or our
over-population
is going to destroy us all…
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Looking to the
future,
scientists will continue to discover new key aspects of the structure of everything, such as on Wednesday, July 4th in 2012 proving the existence of the projected
"Higgs Boson"
& the discovery of a
"wobbling muon" in April, 2021…
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As another view, there are off-world forces that aren't good for us at all, disrupting everything beyond any imaginable vision.
Objective evidence of the tenacity of life? Tundra moss, frozen for over 40,000 years, awakened and grew when brought into the light of day. Civilizations of humans from our past, such as the Mayans and the Romans each ran for hundreds of years but disappeared… where might we end up? Another of the global disasters is a "nearby" Supernova and/or a Gamma-ray Burst (as much as 100 light-years away) which would literally fry us alive, along with all living things near the direction of the radiation blast, which are 2 massive streams shooting out into space in all directions as the source spins around thousands of times a second. Those of us who rather lucky to be under-ground at the time of the event would sadly simply starve to death in a few months, as all plant-life would die off, not re-growing for centuries. Other such off-world disastrously deadly threads do sadly abound… ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
Locally on our planet,
Yellowstone Park
is going to erupt in a massive way, taking us back to the Stone Age or worse--it's been cyclically exploding over the last 18 million years, every 640,000 years or so -- it's presently overdue by ~40,000 years…
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As an unavoidable future fact for both me and you, my reader, the end of
all living things
is an inevitable, universal process, with the permanent and irreversible cessation of the biological functions that sustain all of our living organisms.
If you've already reached your 80's, the horizon of that inescapable event is clearly observable…being under that age allows it to be less visible!!
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Looking into the far, far future, the nearby Andromeda galaxy will be hitting the Milky Way (our galaxy) in perhaps 4.5 billion years; this will no doubt cause massive disruptions for all of our stars (yet with no collisions--pretty hard to understand, but that's what science thinks); our planet will also certainly cease to exist as the Sun encounters a massive expansion with the end of its life in 5-6 billion years, forcing us to leave the biological bodies we have today, becoming beings that are simply "AI"… |
Many other theories have views of the distant future:
one is that in ~100 billion years or so, due to the dark matter (which is still not fully understood) we're going to be so far apart that the skies will be completely dark of stars at night…
After ~10 trillion years, new stars are no longer born, and all stars start to die off, with matter dissipating, and subsequent total atomic disintegration… proton decay will then occur at around 1,032 trillion years and all the Black holes will then be exploding at
10googol
years (yes, quite a long time ahead!) leaving *absolutely* nothing.
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Updated 9-Mar-2024; more will be added, so do return? Cheers!