Energy Crisis

The year was 1970. There were jobs for everyone; families having vacations; the golden era of rock n roll. Earn, spend, consume. Man was reaping the benefits of the industrial revolution. We were at the apex of effective modernization. And then we took it too far.

I remember watching a video of Richard Nixon at an energy summit saying " We cannot afford to spend as much as we are spending now.."

Life was going well and here is a guy who says not to take it easy. But there was a warning in President Nixon's words. Only the people did not know enough facts for the warning to make sense.

Oil. Liquid gold. It is the God around which we have constructed modern civilization. But it is not eternal. One day it will finish. "One day" seems a long way off doesn't it. What if that one day was tomorrow ?

Saudi Arabia has the largest known land oil reserves in the world - nearly 25% of the total. At 1970, Saudi Arabia's oil production was at its highest. Slowly it began to decline. As of today, its reserves are nearly empty. Why don't we hear about it ? Because it will create panic world-wide. More importantly, it might trigger a revolution in Saudi Arabia.

So, the problem remains : Where do we go from here ?

At present there are NO viable options to replace fossil fuel. Solar batteries, electricity, Canadian tar, ethanol, hydrogen.... these are all a layman's attempt at consoling himself; that somehow all his problems will be solved. The only probable source of "energy", not "fuel" is Nuclear energy and that too is limited. Maybe not as limited as fossil fuels but limited nonetheless.

What happens when the oil runs out ? In the words of Joker, " These civilized men... they'll eat eachother."

We have already seen the first of such acts - US invasion of Iraq. There were no WMD's. The war was a direct consequence of Saudi reserves being empty and the next largest oil producing nation Iraq ( about 9%) being on unfriendly terms with the US. Saddam Hussein's bid to undermine the dollar brought about the downfall of an entire country.

All the talk of the US leaving Iraq in the hands of a democratic government... are all talks. They are not going to leave Iraq before the oil runs out.

Men will eat eachother.

4D geometry revisited..

its been such a long time since i gave the topic any thought at all. graduation, woman, work etc etc.
anyway i wanted to point out some flaws in my reasonings. dont mind the grammar or the punctuations.

taking the model of the 4D.... cubes inside cubes inside cubes. for that model to be correct, one cube will have to be smaller than the next one n so on. that will render the system we r considering as infinite in mass. it is just expanding with time, one slice at a time...

if we take universe as a system, then according to thermodynamics, any system, without external influence always contains the same amount of matter and energy. then if universe,i.e., our system IS expanding then the matter and energy contained is progressively getting less dense with time. what, then, fills the rest of the space ? we call it dark matter ? ether ? what is it ?

now scientists have said the universe is expanding at the speed of light ( that is a fact ). that means, the speed at which time travels is equal to the speed of light ?
let us take an example. sunrays take 8 minutes to reach earth. therefore, the first person who sees the first light of the sun on earth says " its sunrise"... but it is actually 8 minutes in the PAST that he is watching. what does it mean ?
i gather it would mean that our sense time IS, in fact, relative as Einstein theorized in general relativity. there are no absolutes.
the flaw lies here in the fact that, were there no observers, this relativity of time will have no purpose. but nature always has a purpose. there is nothing around us, which is not needed. then why does this time lag exists ? what is the purpose of time ?

whenever i look up at the stars, i marvel at the stories they can tell us :)