Compulsory visits to factories in China
I fully agree with Mr. Hon, Mr. OT Lau and the rest who wrote in their e-mails to me and to the rest.
I have been to China many times already, and they always bring us to the factories, department stores, tea houses to drink various types of tea, Chinese medicine shops, foot massage, jade, silk, knives, group photography session(s), handcrafts, shopping malls, etc, etc…you name it – they are all part of their (not our) itinerary.
It is not just in China, but even when I brought my family to Europe and the British Isles, the same thing happened. But I don’t blame them. This is where every country gets their money from foreign tourists. The same thing when foreign tourists come into our country. They too are all brought to batik factories, Selangor Pewter and to buy art and paintings, curios, and handicrafts from vendors in Batu Caves, Tean Hou Temple, wood carvings and Malay paintings of kampong houses from designated tourists centre, etc.
But for China, I was told these ‘shopping itinerary’ are compulsory visits imposed by the Chinese Government to bring in revenue from the tourists industry to China. The tourist guide must complete this part of the tour – so I was told. I suppose this is the same for every country, including Europe and even in Australia where I was.
I think this is a world wide industry, not just in China. But I think China is the worse with at least 5-6 visits to these ‘commercial and business visits’ for a 10-day tour.
As for the extra income for the tour guide, I think this come from their optional tours, and not from the compulsory tours to the factories and adjourning department stores (after the demonstration and completing the factory tours).
But I always refrain from buying, or buying only the minimum. During my last visit to Beijing and surrounding cities, I brought along an equivalent of RM 3000 extra (for emergency use only), but we only spend about RM 1300 (RMB 2500) in actual buying in China.
In fact I spend over RM 6000 buying 3 specialized GPS devices just to record the flight data during my 6 hour flight to Beijing. These special devices alone cost me more than the cost of my entire 10 day trip to Beijing and back with my wife. I invested in these 3 sets of sophisticated GPS for aviation use, as I was more interested in my flight than the actual tour to China.
This was not counting another RM 3,200 investing on the latest compact camera. All these were bought in Malaysia before going to Beijing.
Because of my previous bad experiences buying unnecessary things each time I go on a trip, I now make it a point to fill my two luggage half empty before leaving just in case my wife cannot hold on the temptation of buying things.
In my previous trip to China a year ago, I went with two luggages, but I ended up buying an extra large luggage in Guangzhou just to hold my wife’s shopping stuff on the return trip. All this to me is really unnecessary. As far as I am concerned I can’t be carrying all these extra stuff. I go on an overseas trip to enjoying sightseeing, and not carry a shopping list of stuff. They spoil my enjoyment.
Even during my student’s days studying in England in the 1960’s, I have already learnt my lesson – to buy absolutely nothing, but just carry a camera to record all I saw abroad. The camera film – rolls and rolls of them were my best and only shopping item, and nothing else – except some clothes to keep me warm of course.
But at last! After getting married, my wife dragged me back to the Stone Age of Want and Hunger to acquire unnecessary things. So now each time we go on a trip, I always give her a strong warning and lecture.
At last! It was not effective. Not only my lecture fell on deaf ears, but my purse also became empty. Additionally, I have to drag along her extra luggage home. That extra huge luggage was never there before when I left Malaysia.
The best thing to do in all future trips, is to leave all our wives at home, and go singly only with married males or with bachelors. Go on our own – free and easy without all these travel agents and tour guides. Chose our own itinerary.
That way we only see the things we want to see without having to buy porcelain, silk, jade, knives, and carpets.
lim ju boo
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
The Mathematics, Physics and Biology of Simple Harmonic Motion
Dear Tan and all of you ‘crack net pots’ out there,
A thousand thanks.
The mathematical equation governing a simple harmonic motion was one of my pet subjects in physics when I studied A Level Physics at the Singapore Polytechnic in 1958 – 1960 after I completed my Senior Cambridge in Johore. I was really fascinated by this harmonic motion in dynamics.
It was then just pure physics and mathematics which happened to be my favourite subjects, and nothing more.
A few years later I read for a degree in human physiology, but without the harmonic motion as part of the physiology syllabus.
Never have I dreamt that, years later into the future - just 5 minutes ago on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 6:34 p.m. when I opened this mail, I found what I studied previously were incomplete and obsolete.
I now have to deal with the understanding of the biophysics of a harmonic motion as well. The Internet and chain e-mails are absolutely amazing.
Thanks anyway. I shall pass this new syllabus round to the professors, physicists, engineers, medical doctors, biophysicists, mathematicians, bio-physiologists, planetary scientists on the dynamics of motions, medical students, etc for them to crack their heads on how to harmonize this equation
Amazing Bio-Physics! Fascinating!
jbl
A patient currently with vertigo and tinnitus
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 4:20 AM, P Tan wrote:
Dear Dr Lim,
Humble apology
I must sincerely apologise for forwarding to you such infectious SHM videos that causes some distress, vertigo plus tinnitus without giving a pre warning statement that viewing those videos with no proper parental guidance can seriously affect your health.
But rest assured, the underlying principles and formulae of SHM is still the same, yesterday , today and tommorrow. The only difference is the presentations and illustrations of SHM are by videos clips whereas in our time, it was shown by a physic teacher using a lead plumb bob attached to the end of a string. Nothing exciting. Simple and harmonic. Lads these days are luckier with these exciting videos.
Of Impulse and Newton's Law of Motion
Your IMmediate reaction and write up of SHM was in deed extremely IMPULSIVE (I) and must have used up a lot of brain Force (F) within split Seconds (t). That immediate reaction subconsciously reflects and verify Newton's Third Law of Motion which simply states that :For ever action, there is an equal but opposite reaction.
Your close scrutiny and deep focusing on the SHM video clips attached must have indeed, become a cause of alarm, and the resulting effect, can be easily diagnosed as cause by the sensitivity of both your iris synchronising with the SHM of the breasts shown even though your body was completely at rest albeit yr fingers and brains. The visual signals your retina detected and received were transmitted to your brains which resonanced an immediate response that is equal and opposite in reactions (Newton's 3rd Law). Hence giving rise to your both your middle ears suffering an imbalance caused by the SHM vibrations which is the actual cause of your Vertigo and to some extend, Tinnitus.
It is very rare for a person viewing those videos which has circumnavigated the internet world, to suffer both acute Vertigo and Tinnitus. As such, it only implies that , Dr Lim, you are highly sensitive to SHM related to female joggers especially where the breast is concerned--- thus following Newton's second law of motion: A body exists in a state of rest unless an external force is apply to it. At the instance of viewing the videos, your body was at rest and the external force must be where the breasts are concerned!
Normally, some medications like Niacin, paracetemol and antibiotics will help to relieve partial symptoms of vertigo and tinnitus caused by ear infection. But in yr case, the vertigo and tinnitus were caused by video effects therefore no medications will help. Minyak Angin Cap Kapak may help to relieve. Beware of side effects cause by western medication.
If the symptoms persist, the only obvious solution, is click the delete button and the symptoms will go away in a few days. Do not retrieve from the recycle bin as second attack will lead to further damages that may eventually affect the Central Nervous System.
Extreme caution :REPEATED viewing of those SMH videos may lead to more severe vertigo and tinnitus. The prognosis of vertigo and tinnitus depends on the amount of damage done to the CNS. Vertigo caused by a brain lesion may need emergency evaluation, in which case, please refer yourself to a neurologist and/or neurosurgeon for further diagnosis and management.
Further talking point: Simple Harmonic Motion is not Simple anymore. Its no more a simple case of swinging the pendulum bob where the periodic Time can be measured by a simple lab experiment in HSBP=High School Batu Pahat.
It has penetrated and diversed into many fields such as management, politics, and even how to make a woman happy.
A quick glance at my handfone shows that it is oredi 420 am, 17 October, 2010 and i shall pen no more.. I have spent so much time pening in the wee hours of the night and i hope to get an acknowlegment from you.
thank you.
wiseniteowl
"sound advice: 99% sound, 1 % advice"
------------
My dear Engineer Perry and junior school-mate at Batu Pahat High School,
My profession in the art and science of healing, the relief of pain and human suffering, in health care, nutrition, a scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, and in medical research is entirely the opposite yours. Your profession is highly mechanical, stiff and rigid, mathematical with no room for compassion for human life in the event of mistakes.
Difficult to understand:
Therefore it is very difficult for me to understand the logic of your response to my simple comment on Simple Harmonic Motion which I learnt when I was studying physics (mechanics and dynamics) for my A Level General Certificate of Education at the Singapore Polytechnic towards the end of 1950s. The A Level was much higher standard than the current Certificate of Higher Education of Malaysia (STPM) of this country.
Just my simple interest on anything that moves:
All I said was, I was extremely fascinated by the mathematics of SHM which can mathematically generate what is called a ‘sine wave’. I was fascinated by this oscillating wave because mathematics and physic was my pet and most favourite subject among all the disciplines of sciences including medicine.
Anything that moves:
I am interested in anything that moves, the faster the better, like the speed of light, the flow of electrons through a wire, radio signals, the flash of lightning, etc.
I am particularly interested in aerodynamics and planes that can fly me at near 1000 kph from one point on Earth to another point on Earth within hours. That’s why I have great fascination for my friend, Captain KH Lim website:
http://www.askcaptainlim.com/
http://www.askcaptainlim.com/index.php?
option=com_content&view=category&id=48&Itemid=68
I have also contributed some articles in Captain Lim’s website:
http://www.askcaptainlim.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=74&Itemid=89
Captain Lim was a Senior Pilot with MAS and now with AirAsia.
Astronomy, my hobby:
I took up astronomy as a hobby even when I was actively engaged in conducting medical research as a paid profession purely because of my immense love for dynamics, logic, analysis, critical thinking, and problem solving presented in physical sciences.
In Singapore:
At the Singapore Polytechnic where I did my A Level, one of the physics lectures was on Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM). I was fascinated by the dynamics of simple harmonic motion for the oscillation in a single dimension which gave me an opportunity to combine my understanding of Newton’s second law (F = m d2x/dt2) and Hooke's law (F = −kx,) to give the second-order linear differential equation in calculus:
m. d2x/dt2 = - kx
Where, m is the mass of the body, x is its displacement from the mean position, and k is a constant.
The solutions to this differential equation are sinusoidal; one solution is:
x(t) = A cos (ωt + ф) f,
where A, ω, and ф are constants. A is the amplitude, f is the frequency, and ф is the phase.
Thankfully these symbols are available for direct insertion from Microsoft. This is the best I can do to type mathematical symbols on my home PC.
I would like to elaborate, but I am sorry my Microsoft word does not allow me to write many equations in calculus and mathematical formulae. This is the best I can type using Microsoft word. So I have to cut it short. But since you are an engineer, you know what I am trying to mathematically express to you.
The Physics of SHM:
In physics, simple harmonic motion (SHM) is the motion of a simple harmonic oscillator, a periodic motion that is neither driven nor damped. A body in simple harmonic motion experiences a single force which is given by Hooke's law; that is, the force is directly proportional to the displacement x and points in the opposite direction.
The motion is periodic: the body oscillates about an equilibrium position in a sinusoidal pattern. Each oscillation is identical, and thus the period, frequency, and amplitude of the motion are constant. If the equilibrium position is taken to be zero, the displacement x of the body at any time t is given by:
(I am sorry. I have difficulty in typing out the equation)
The frequency of the motion is determined by the intrinsic properties of the system (often the mass of the body and a force constant), while the amplitude and phase are determined by the initial conditions (displacement and velocity) of the system. The kinetic and potential energies of the system are also determined by these properties and conditions.
Graphic Illustration of Simple Harmonic Motion (above)
In the above graph, the vertical axis represents the coordinate of the particle (x in the equation), and the horizontal axis represents time (t).
Simple harmonic motion can serve as a mathematical model of a variety of motions, such as the oscillation of a spring. Other phenomena can be approximated by simple harmonic motion, including the motion of a pendulum and molecular vibration.
Simple harmonic motion provides the basis of the characterization of more complicated motions through the techniques of Fourier analysis.
It’s Kinetosis for me:
With the illustration and explanation I give above, you can understand why SHM fascinates me in school physics. The graph above illustrates the up and down motion generating a sine wave by a particle moving in a circle. Isn’t this similar to someone streaming along in a boat with waves bobbling up and down? The boat is generating a kinetosis (motion sickness) for my poor vestibular balance.
If you were in such a boat with waves dipping up and down, would you get sea-sick (motion sickness). Because you are an engineer and not a doctor or a physiologist, you may have little understanding me why I have vertigo and tinnitus (ring in the ear) when I looked at those graphics e-mailed to me. This was primarily caused by motion (sickness), and imbalances of the fluid within the labyrinth of the inner ear
Vestibular Balance Disorders:
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common form of vertigo and is characterized by the sensation of motion initiated by sudden head movements or moving the head in a certain direction. It also occurs frequently in people riding in a boat bobbling up and down in strong waves causing the fluid with the semi-circular canals in the inner ears (labyrinth) to lose balance.
Of course, vertigo may also be caused by inflammation within the inner ear (labyrinthitis or vestibular neuritis). I did not say my vertigo was caused by labyrinthitis from a viral or bacterial inner ear infection, but merely following the Biological Simple Harmonic Motion (BSHM – new term) of a breast up and down. That graphic gave me a headache. It was very hard for me to follow their complicated motions at my age.
Triad Combination:
I had vertigo and ringing in the ears trying to follow a biological SHM, where I have to combine an understanding of physics and mathematics (bi-combination) I learnt in school with biology and medicine currently (a new triad combination) after retirement. This odd combination of physical and biological sciences make it very complicated for me to understand and grasp.
This was why I suffered from vertigo and tinnitus because the SHM I studied in school was only a simple one that generated a sine or a sinusoidal wave (sinusoid). But this SHM has now become a CHM (Complex Harmonic Motions) after I received it on retirement.
How do you combine mathematics, physics, biology and medicine together at my age? They are all strange bed-fellows. They give people who want to rest nightmares and insomnia, and vertigo at the same time. That was what I meant when I signed my name off as a vertigo patient.
The vibrations in a musical instrument:
I play the violin as a hobby. Each time I play a piece on the violin, I already get headaches trying to understand the mathematics of the vibrating strings of my violin. They generated highly, highly complicated mixtures of sine waves on the GDAE strings even though I play the violin just for leisure and pastime.
They produce various combinations of notes, frequencies, harmonics (natural, and artificial), timbre (tone quality), trills, double stops, octaves, grace notes, vibrations of the strings in a chromatic, melodic, major and minor harmonic, diatonic scales, flats, sharps, accidentals, and glissando, causing far more damage to my understanding, made even more complicated using various techniques of bowing over the 4 strings (GDAE) of the violin.
The vibrations of the strings were all different using special bowing techniques, example: Tremolo, Slurs, Largo, Pizzicato, Ties, Staccato, Spiccato, Saltando, Detache, Legato, Bariolage, Martele, etc, etc…and made even worse still by a bowing technique called ‘Paganini’ bowing to produce various sounds, notes, harmonics and frequencies on my violin.
Only a Supercomputer can calculate:
They require an extremely powerful and very fast supercomputer to analyze the mathematical complexities of the various motions, mixtures and over lapping sine waves when the strings or air column of any musical instruments are plucked, bowed, per cussed or blown on. They are beyond me to understand as mine was just a SHM. Thank God mine was just playing the violin for fun at parties and functions.
Finally:
And, pleased do not get this confused with Meniere's disease which is also a triad of symptoms including episodes of vertigo, and ringing in the ear(tinnitus).
Maybe we should combine our opposite training to understand our thoughts better. Unfortunately, I do not understand your logic and explanation on the diagnosis and the treatment of vertigo. I may have to do a post-doctoral training to understand your diagnosis and treatment for vertigo.
But I hope you understand my logic and my explanation on SHM. It took me a long time to write this reply due to difficulty of typing out mathematics and calculus using Microsoft Word. I do not have the software on typing out mathematical symbols and equations. But as an engineer who is competent in mathematics, you know what I am trying to tell you.
jb lim
A sinusoid writer, not a sinister
A thousand thanks.
The mathematical equation governing a simple harmonic motion was one of my pet subjects in physics when I studied A Level Physics at the Singapore Polytechnic in 1958 – 1960 after I completed my Senior Cambridge in Johore. I was really fascinated by this harmonic motion in dynamics.
It was then just pure physics and mathematics which happened to be my favourite subjects, and nothing more.
A few years later I read for a degree in human physiology, but without the harmonic motion as part of the physiology syllabus.
Never have I dreamt that, years later into the future - just 5 minutes ago on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 6:34 p.m. when I opened this mail, I found what I studied previously were incomplete and obsolete.
I now have to deal with the understanding of the biophysics of a harmonic motion as well. The Internet and chain e-mails are absolutely amazing.
Thanks anyway. I shall pass this new syllabus round to the professors, physicists, engineers, medical doctors, biophysicists, mathematicians, bio-physiologists, planetary scientists on the dynamics of motions, medical students, etc for them to crack their heads on how to harmonize this equation
Amazing Bio-Physics! Fascinating!
jbl
A patient currently with vertigo and tinnitus
-------------------
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 4:20 AM, P Tan
Dear Dr Lim,
Humble apology
I must sincerely apologise for forwarding to you such infectious SHM videos that causes some distress, vertigo plus tinnitus without giving a pre warning statement that viewing those videos with no proper parental guidance can seriously affect your health.
But rest assured, the underlying principles and formulae of SHM is still the same, yesterday , today and tommorrow. The only difference is the presentations and illustrations of SHM are by videos clips whereas in our time, it was shown by a physic teacher using a lead plumb bob attached to the end of a string. Nothing exciting. Simple and harmonic. Lads these days are luckier with these exciting videos.
Of Impulse and Newton's Law of Motion
Your IMmediate reaction and write up of SHM was in deed extremely IMPULSIVE (I) and must have used up a lot of brain Force (F) within split Seconds (t). That immediate reaction subconsciously reflects and verify Newton's Third Law of Motion which simply states that :For ever action, there is an equal but opposite reaction.
Your close scrutiny and deep focusing on the SHM video clips attached must have indeed, become a cause of alarm, and the resulting effect, can be easily diagnosed as cause by the sensitivity of both your iris synchronising with the SHM of the breasts shown even though your body was completely at rest albeit yr fingers and brains. The visual signals your retina detected and received were transmitted to your brains which resonanced an immediate response that is equal and opposite in reactions (Newton's 3rd Law). Hence giving rise to your both your middle ears suffering an imbalance caused by the SHM vibrations which is the actual cause of your Vertigo and to some extend, Tinnitus.
It is very rare for a person viewing those videos which has circumnavigated the internet world, to suffer both acute Vertigo and Tinnitus. As such, it only implies that , Dr Lim, you are highly sensitive to SHM related to female joggers especially where the breast is concerned--- thus following Newton's second law of motion: A body exists in a state of rest unless an external force is apply to it. At the instance of viewing the videos, your body was at rest and the external force must be where the breasts are concerned!
Normally, some medications like Niacin, paracetemol and antibiotics will help to relieve partial symptoms of vertigo and tinnitus caused by ear infection. But in yr case, the vertigo and tinnitus were caused by video effects therefore no medications will help. Minyak Angin Cap Kapak may help to relieve. Beware of side effects cause by western medication.
If the symptoms persist, the only obvious solution, is click the delete button and the symptoms will go away in a few days. Do not retrieve from the recycle bin as second attack will lead to further damages that may eventually affect the Central Nervous System.
Extreme caution :REPEATED viewing of those SMH videos may lead to more severe vertigo and tinnitus. The prognosis of vertigo and tinnitus depends on the amount of damage done to the CNS. Vertigo caused by a brain lesion may need emergency evaluation, in which case, please refer yourself to a neurologist and/or neurosurgeon for further diagnosis and management.
Further talking point: Simple Harmonic Motion is not Simple anymore. Its no more a simple case of swinging the pendulum bob where the periodic Time can be measured by a simple lab experiment in HSBP=High School Batu Pahat.
It has penetrated and diversed into many fields such as management, politics, and even how to make a woman happy.
A quick glance at my handfone shows that it is oredi 420 am, 17 October, 2010 and i shall pen no more.. I have spent so much time pening in the wee hours of the night and i hope to get an acknowlegment from you.
thank you.
wiseniteowl
"sound advice: 99% sound, 1 % advice"
------------
My dear Engineer Perry and junior school-mate at Batu Pahat High School,
My profession in the art and science of healing, the relief of pain and human suffering, in health care, nutrition, a scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, and in medical research is entirely the opposite yours. Your profession is highly mechanical, stiff and rigid, mathematical with no room for compassion for human life in the event of mistakes.
Difficult to understand:
Therefore it is very difficult for me to understand the logic of your response to my simple comment on Simple Harmonic Motion which I learnt when I was studying physics (mechanics and dynamics) for my A Level General Certificate of Education at the Singapore Polytechnic towards the end of 1950s. The A Level was much higher standard than the current Certificate of Higher Education of Malaysia (STPM) of this country.
Just my simple interest on anything that moves:
All I said was, I was extremely fascinated by the mathematics of SHM which can mathematically generate what is called a ‘sine wave’. I was fascinated by this oscillating wave because mathematics and physic was my pet and most favourite subject among all the disciplines of sciences including medicine.
Anything that moves:
I am interested in anything that moves, the faster the better, like the speed of light, the flow of electrons through a wire, radio signals, the flash of lightning, etc.
I am particularly interested in aerodynamics and planes that can fly me at near 1000 kph from one point on Earth to another point on Earth within hours. That’s why I have great fascination for my friend, Captain KH Lim website:
http://www.askcaptainlim.com/
http://www.askcaptainlim.com/index.php?
option=com_content&view=category&id=48&Itemid=68
I have also contributed some articles in Captain Lim’s website:
http://www.askcaptainlim.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=74&Itemid=89
Captain Lim was a Senior Pilot with MAS and now with AirAsia.
Astronomy, my hobby:
I took up astronomy as a hobby even when I was actively engaged in conducting medical research as a paid profession purely because of my immense love for dynamics, logic, analysis, critical thinking, and problem solving presented in physical sciences.
In Singapore:
At the Singapore Polytechnic where I did my A Level, one of the physics lectures was on Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM). I was fascinated by the dynamics of simple harmonic motion for the oscillation in a single dimension which gave me an opportunity to combine my understanding of Newton’s second law (F = m d2x/dt2) and Hooke's law (F = −kx,) to give the second-order linear differential equation in calculus:
m. d2x/dt2 = - kx
Where, m is the mass of the body, x is its displacement from the mean position, and k is a constant.
The solutions to this differential equation are sinusoidal; one solution is:
x(t) = A cos (ωt + ф) f,
where A, ω, and ф are constants. A is the amplitude, f is the frequency, and ф is the phase.
Thankfully these symbols are available for direct insertion from Microsoft. This is the best I can do to type mathematical symbols on my home PC.
I would like to elaborate, but I am sorry my Microsoft word does not allow me to write many equations in calculus and mathematical formulae. This is the best I can type using Microsoft word. So I have to cut it short. But since you are an engineer, you know what I am trying to mathematically express to you.
The Physics of SHM:
In physics, simple harmonic motion (SHM) is the motion of a simple harmonic oscillator, a periodic motion that is neither driven nor damped. A body in simple harmonic motion experiences a single force which is given by Hooke's law; that is, the force is directly proportional to the displacement x and points in the opposite direction.
The motion is periodic: the body oscillates about an equilibrium position in a sinusoidal pattern. Each oscillation is identical, and thus the period, frequency, and amplitude of the motion are constant. If the equilibrium position is taken to be zero, the displacement x of the body at any time t is given by:
(I am sorry. I have difficulty in typing out the equation)
The frequency of the motion is determined by the intrinsic properties of the system (often the mass of the body and a force constant), while the amplitude and phase are determined by the initial conditions (displacement and velocity) of the system. The kinetic and potential energies of the system are also determined by these properties and conditions.
Graphic Illustration of Simple Harmonic Motion (above)
In the above graph, the vertical axis represents the coordinate of the particle (x in the equation), and the horizontal axis represents time (t).
Simple harmonic motion can serve as a mathematical model of a variety of motions, such as the oscillation of a spring. Other phenomena can be approximated by simple harmonic motion, including the motion of a pendulum and molecular vibration.
Simple harmonic motion provides the basis of the characterization of more complicated motions through the techniques of Fourier analysis.
It’s Kinetosis for me:
With the illustration and explanation I give above, you can understand why SHM fascinates me in school physics. The graph above illustrates the up and down motion generating a sine wave by a particle moving in a circle. Isn’t this similar to someone streaming along in a boat with waves bobbling up and down? The boat is generating a kinetosis (motion sickness) for my poor vestibular balance.
If you were in such a boat with waves dipping up and down, would you get sea-sick (motion sickness). Because you are an engineer and not a doctor or a physiologist, you may have little understanding me why I have vertigo and tinnitus (ring in the ear) when I looked at those graphics e-mailed to me. This was primarily caused by motion (sickness), and imbalances of the fluid within the labyrinth of the inner ear
Vestibular Balance Disorders:
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common form of vertigo and is characterized by the sensation of motion initiated by sudden head movements or moving the head in a certain direction. It also occurs frequently in people riding in a boat bobbling up and down in strong waves causing the fluid with the semi-circular canals in the inner ears (labyrinth) to lose balance.
Of course, vertigo may also be caused by inflammation within the inner ear (labyrinthitis or vestibular neuritis). I did not say my vertigo was caused by labyrinthitis from a viral or bacterial inner ear infection, but merely following the Biological Simple Harmonic Motion (BSHM – new term) of a breast up and down. That graphic gave me a headache. It was very hard for me to follow their complicated motions at my age.
Triad Combination:
I had vertigo and ringing in the ears trying to follow a biological SHM, where I have to combine an understanding of physics and mathematics (bi-combination) I learnt in school with biology and medicine currently (a new triad combination) after retirement. This odd combination of physical and biological sciences make it very complicated for me to understand and grasp.
This was why I suffered from vertigo and tinnitus because the SHM I studied in school was only a simple one that generated a sine or a sinusoidal wave (sinusoid). But this SHM has now become a CHM (Complex Harmonic Motions) after I received it on retirement.
How do you combine mathematics, physics, biology and medicine together at my age? They are all strange bed-fellows. They give people who want to rest nightmares and insomnia, and vertigo at the same time. That was what I meant when I signed my name off as a vertigo patient.
The vibrations in a musical instrument:
I play the violin as a hobby. Each time I play a piece on the violin, I already get headaches trying to understand the mathematics of the vibrating strings of my violin. They generated highly, highly complicated mixtures of sine waves on the GDAE strings even though I play the violin just for leisure and pastime.
They produce various combinations of notes, frequencies, harmonics (natural, and artificial), timbre (tone quality), trills, double stops, octaves, grace notes, vibrations of the strings in a chromatic, melodic, major and minor harmonic, diatonic scales, flats, sharps, accidentals, and glissando, causing far more damage to my understanding, made even more complicated using various techniques of bowing over the 4 strings (GDAE) of the violin.
The vibrations of the strings were all different using special bowing techniques, example: Tremolo, Slurs, Largo, Pizzicato, Ties, Staccato, Spiccato, Saltando, Detache, Legato, Bariolage, Martele, etc, etc…and made even worse still by a bowing technique called ‘Paganini’ bowing to produce various sounds, notes, harmonics and frequencies on my violin.
Only a Supercomputer can calculate:
They require an extremely powerful and very fast supercomputer to analyze the mathematical complexities of the various motions, mixtures and over lapping sine waves when the strings or air column of any musical instruments are plucked, bowed, per cussed or blown on. They are beyond me to understand as mine was just a SHM. Thank God mine was just playing the violin for fun at parties and functions.
Finally:
And, pleased do not get this confused with Meniere's disease which is also a triad of symptoms including episodes of vertigo, and ringing in the ear(tinnitus).
Maybe we should combine our opposite training to understand our thoughts better. Unfortunately, I do not understand your logic and explanation on the diagnosis and the treatment of vertigo. I may have to do a post-doctoral training to understand your diagnosis and treatment for vertigo.
But I hope you understand my logic and my explanation on SHM. It took me a long time to write this reply due to difficulty of typing out mathematics and calculus using Microsoft Word. I do not have the software on typing out mathematical symbols and equations. But as an engineer who is competent in mathematics, you know what I am trying to tell you.
jb lim
A sinusoid writer, not a sinister
Thursday, September 23, 2010
My skill with the violin
Dear SK, and all,
Please do not give the impression to others that I am an expert violinist. I am NOT. The violin dubbed as the King of Instruments is exceedingly difficult to play. You need to start learning it at a tender age of 4-6 years old, and continue with it until you are a teenager and older. You need to put many hours of practice into it before you can handle classical concert pieces.
I am not. I picked up the violin not at a age of 6, but at 60 and I am still learning it with many bowing techniques where I am still yet to master. It is very difficult at my age. I need to read the notes and practice on the difficult passages repeatedly first before playing the full score.
I can play almost all light classical pieces without much difficulty but not those violin concertos which are far too difficult for me. These are normally handled by celebrated professional concert violinists where they learn from young for another 10 -15 years.
Playing the violin is a life-long learning, and I am not suited for that since I took it up as a hobby 5 yerars after my retirement.
There is much for me to learn
jb lim
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Tan Seng Khoon ++ wrote:
Dear JB,
I admire your great talent and interest in music and also your expertise in playing the violin.
I am a music moron. But I can play the guitar a little. Also a bit of the drum. Hope to pick up more next year.
Rgds,
Khoon.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ir T O Lau
To: JB Lim
Cc: Tan Seng Khoon ; Pastor David ; Magdalene Lim ; Josephine Wong ; Joseph Ng Moo Eng ; Hon Too Fang ; C K Cheong
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:22 PM
Subject: Toselli's Serenade -- Soothing Music
Dear Dr JB,
Thanks so much for the enlightenment about the music.....this goes to prove your extraordinary versatility, i.e. an artist and a scientist at the same time (that I knew it already after reading many of your emails in the past).
I'm only too privileged and delighted to be a friend of yours whom you would unselfishly pass on your invaluable knowledge!
The youtube music played by Andre Rieu is really very nice and soothing to the mind and soul. Totally enjoyed it.
Cheers,
T O Lau
P/s: I notice that you didn't copy your mail to other e-buddies. Hope you wouldn't mind my doing so to let them know about the music.
Please do not give the impression to others that I am an expert violinist. I am NOT. The violin dubbed as the King of Instruments is exceedingly difficult to play. You need to start learning it at a tender age of 4-6 years old, and continue with it until you are a teenager and older. You need to put many hours of practice into it before you can handle classical concert pieces.
I am not. I picked up the violin not at a age of 6, but at 60 and I am still learning it with many bowing techniques where I am still yet to master. It is very difficult at my age. I need to read the notes and practice on the difficult passages repeatedly first before playing the full score.
I can play almost all light classical pieces without much difficulty but not those violin concertos which are far too difficult for me. These are normally handled by celebrated professional concert violinists where they learn from young for another 10 -15 years.
Playing the violin is a life-long learning, and I am not suited for that since I took it up as a hobby 5 yerars after my retirement.
There is much for me to learn
jb lim
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Tan Seng Khoon ++
Dear JB,
I admire your great talent and interest in music and also your expertise in playing the violin.
I am a music moron. But I can play the guitar a little. Also a bit of the drum. Hope to pick up more next year.
Rgds,
Khoon.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ir T O Lau
To: JB Lim
Cc: Tan Seng Khoon ; Pastor David ; Magdalene Lim ; Josephine Wong ; Joseph Ng Moo Eng ; Hon Too Fang ; C K Cheong
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:22 PM
Subject: Toselli's Serenade -- Soothing Music
Dear Dr JB,
Thanks so much for the enlightenment about the music.....this goes to prove your extraordinary versatility, i.e. an artist and a scientist at the same time (that I knew it already after reading many of your emails in the past).
I'm only too privileged and delighted to be a friend of yours whom you would unselfishly pass on your invaluable knowledge!
The youtube music played by Andre Rieu is really very nice and soothing to the mind and soul. Totally enjoyed it.
Cheers,
T O Lau
P/s: I notice that you didn't copy your mail to other e-buddies. Hope you wouldn't mind my doing so to let them know about the music.
A Poem for Moon-cake Festival (一个月饼节的诗) ：
Dear Dr Lim,
You are so wonderful, so full of talent, Nothing seem to be
difficult to you. How I wish I could be just 10% of your capability...
Thank you & Warmest regards
C K Cheong
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:53 PM, JB Lim wrote:
Dear friends,
I have penned a Mid-Autumn Festival poem for you and your family.
I hope you like it. Just click below to open
Best wishes for Moon-cake Festival & regards
http://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2010/09/poem-for-moon-cake-festival.html
jb lim
You are so wonderful, so full of talent, Nothing seem to be
difficult to you. How I wish I could be just 10% of your capability...
Thank you & Warmest regards
C K Cheong
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:53 PM, JB Lim
Dear friends,
I have penned a Mid-Autumn Festival poem for you and your family.
I hope you like it. Just click below to open
Best wishes for Moon-cake Festival & regards
http://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2010/09/poem-for-moon-cake-festival.html
jb lim
Toselli's Serenade
Ir T O Lau to me, Tan, Pastor, Magdalene, Josephine, Joseph, Hon, C
show details 10:22 PM (1 hour ago)
Dear Dr JB,
Thanks so much for the enlightenment about the music.....this goes to prove your extraordinary versatility, i.e. an artist and a scientist at the same time (that I knew it already after reading many of your emails in the past).
I'm only too privileged and delighted to be a friend of yours whom you would unselfishly pass on your invaluable knowledge!
The youtube music played by Andre Rieu is really very nice and soothing to the mind and soul. Totally enjoyed it.
Cheers,
T O Lau
P/s: I notice that you didn't copy your mail to other e-buddies. Hope you wouldn't mind my doing so to let them know about the music.
----- Original Message -----
From: JB Lim
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:21 PM
Subject: Fwd: JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL NOT TO SHARE
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: JB Lim
Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Subject: Fwd: JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL NOT TO SHARE
To: Tai Onn Lau
Dear Ir. Lau,
Thanks for those lovely slides of roses and the beautiful accompanying music. I enjoyed it.
This is to let you know that the actual name of that music composition is called Toselli’s Serenade and not Nightingale Serenade as given in the first slide. It was probably mistaken as a nightingale serenade because of a nightingale chipping beautifully in the background. That’s wrong. We need to give credit to the name of the actual composer.
This piece was composed by Italian pianist and composer Enrico Toselli who was born and died in Florence, Italy (March 13, 1883 Florence-January 15, 1926). Although Toselli studied the piano with Giovanni Sgambati and composition with Giuseppe Martucci and Reginaldo Grazzini he started on a brilliant career as a concert pianist at an early age in Italy.
Toselli also composed many works for the violin, one of which is this Enrico Toselli serenata which is probably the most well-known. Technically, for us who study music, this composition is actually called Serenata 'Rimpianto' Op.6 No.1
Toselli also wrote two operettas, La cattiva Francesca in 1912, and La principessa bizzarra in 1913.
Serenata Rimpianto is one of my favourite classical pieces which I knew every since a child. Even today, I still play this piece on my violin now and then on request from friends and at functions as a solist, accompanied on a piano. I have also played it with an orchestra. It requires a lot of expression and feelings especially with the bowing when played on a violin
You may listen to this piece played once again by Andre Rieu, a Dutch violinist, conductor, and composer best known for his the waltz-playing "Johann Strauss Orchestra".
Click below. Happy listening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkguCwO5i-M
jb lim
Music Student (violin)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tai Onn Lau
Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Subject: JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL
To:
JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL NOT TO SHARE WITH YOU............
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12b3c92805fc0c4a
show details 10:22 PM (1 hour ago)
Dear Dr JB,
Thanks so much for the enlightenment about the music.....this goes to prove your extraordinary versatility, i.e. an artist and a scientist at the same time (that I knew it already after reading many of your emails in the past).
I'm only too privileged and delighted to be a friend of yours whom you would unselfishly pass on your invaluable knowledge!
The youtube music played by Andre Rieu is really very nice and soothing to the mind and soul. Totally enjoyed it.
Cheers,
T O Lau
P/s: I notice that you didn't copy your mail to other e-buddies. Hope you wouldn't mind my doing so to let them know about the music.
----- Original Message -----
From: JB Lim
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:21 PM
Subject: Fwd: JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL NOT TO SHARE
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: JB Lim
Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Subject: Fwd: JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL NOT TO SHARE
To: Tai Onn Lau
Dear Ir. Lau,
Thanks for those lovely slides of roses and the beautiful accompanying music. I enjoyed it.
This is to let you know that the actual name of that music composition is called Toselli’s Serenade and not Nightingale Serenade as given in the first slide. It was probably mistaken as a nightingale serenade because of a nightingale chipping beautifully in the background. That’s wrong. We need to give credit to the name of the actual composer.
This piece was composed by Italian pianist and composer Enrico Toselli who was born and died in Florence, Italy (March 13, 1883 Florence-January 15, 1926). Although Toselli studied the piano with Giovanni Sgambati and composition with Giuseppe Martucci and Reginaldo Grazzini he started on a brilliant career as a concert pianist at an early age in Italy.
Toselli also composed many works for the violin, one of which is this Enrico Toselli serenata which is probably the most well-known. Technically, for us who study music, this composition is actually called Serenata 'Rimpianto' Op.6 No.1
Toselli also wrote two operettas, La cattiva Francesca in 1912, and La principessa bizzarra in 1913.
Serenata Rimpianto is one of my favourite classical pieces which I knew every since a child. Even today, I still play this piece on my violin now and then on request from friends and at functions as a solist, accompanied on a piano. I have also played it with an orchestra. It requires a lot of expression and feelings especially with the bowing when played on a violin
You may listen to this piece played once again by Andre Rieu, a Dutch violinist, conductor, and composer best known for his the waltz-playing "Johann Strauss Orchestra".
Click below. Happy listening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkguCwO5i-M
jb lim
Music Student (violin)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tai Onn Lau
Date: Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Subject: JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL
To:
JUST TOO BEAUTIFUL NOT TO SHARE WITH YOU............
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12b3c92805fc0c4a
A Poem for Moon-cake Festival (一个月饼节的诗) ：
A Poem for Moon-cake Festival:
一个月饼节的诗：
A Mid-Autumn Dream
一个中秋梦
Think of an ancient village
想想一古村落
On a lonely night
在一个孤独的夜晚
In bygone days of early China
在早期中国往日
Nestled in a valley among hills
坐落在一个山谷之间的丘陵
As Mother Nature has it
正如大自然有它
A lonely river through the village
一个孤独的河穿过村庄
Avenue with weeping willow tress
大街上垂柳枝条
Running crystal clear waters in moonlight
运行在月光清澈
Meandering its course down
蜿蜒的课程下来
The hills and valleys below
以下的丘陵和山谷
In moonlight and in tranquility
在月光下与安宁
On a mid autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Conjure up the bright Full Moon above
想起了上面的明亮的圆月
On a mid autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Her cool radiance shines
她的寒光闪耀
Over mountains and valleys
在高山和峡谷
The village and placid streams
平静的村庄和溪流
In the stillness of the night
在寂静的夜晚
On a breezy mid autumn night
在一个凉风习习中秋夜
Crystal clear, bright, solitary her light
清澈，明亮，孤独的她的光芒
Dreamy and romantic
梦幻和浪漫
Small children gazing at the Moon
在赏月小的孩子
Red lanterns, moon cakes they carry
大红灯笼，他们携带月饼
Through the village in solitude
通过在村庄孤独
Come, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
来吧，中秋中秋
Enchanting and captivating
迷人魅力
How placid and tranquil life would be
如何平静和安宁的生活会
Prescribed in Chinese traditions
在中国传统的订明
Ordained by ancient customs and cultures
晋铎的古老的习俗和文化
This vision I cherish
我珍惜这一设想
In dreams by night
夜间在梦中
A thousand years be a night
一千年是一个夜晚
Blissful and enthralling
德佑和迷人
In quietude I surmise
在宁静我猜测
Come autumn be my bride
秋天来成为我的新娘
On a mid-autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Be betrothed in romance
许配浪漫
A Moon a-shining in glory
月亮照在荣耀
The moon cake awaiting
月饼等待
I yearn to gaze and eat
我渴望的目光和吃
By a river in moonlight
由一个在月光河
In an ancient village
在一个古老的村庄
Pretty lanterns and willow trees
漂亮的灯笼和柳树
Boulevard the waters
大道水域
Romantic and enchanting
浪漫和迷人
At last, vision is but a vapor
最后，视觉只不过是水蒸气
That vanishes by the break of the day
这消失的一天休息
Yet, this dream, my hope
然而，这个梦，我的希望
My desire, my wish
我的愿望，我的愿望
A Joyful Moon Cake Festival
欢乐的月饼节
Before moonset for another day
另一天月落之前
This, is my earnest wish for you
这是我对你的殷切希望
- lim ju boo 林 如 武 (Lin Ru Wu)
一个月饼节的诗：
A Mid-Autumn Dream
一个中秋梦
Think of an ancient village
想想一古村落
On a lonely night
在一个孤独的夜晚
In bygone days of early China
在早期中国往日
Nestled in a valley among hills
坐落在一个山谷之间的丘陵
As Mother Nature has it
正如大自然有它
A lonely river through the village
一个孤独的河穿过村庄
Avenue with weeping willow tress
大街上垂柳枝条
Running crystal clear waters in moonlight
运行在月光清澈
Meandering its course down
蜿蜒的课程下来
The hills and valleys below
以下的丘陵和山谷
In moonlight and in tranquility
在月光下与安宁
On a mid autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Conjure up the bright Full Moon above
想起了上面的明亮的圆月
On a mid autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Her cool radiance shines
她的寒光闪耀
Over mountains and valleys
在高山和峡谷
The village and placid streams
平静的村庄和溪流
In the stillness of the night
在寂静的夜晚
On a breezy mid autumn night
在一个凉风习习中秋夜
Crystal clear, bright, solitary her light
清澈，明亮，孤独的她的光芒
Dreamy and romantic
梦幻和浪漫
Small children gazing at the Moon
在赏月小的孩子
Red lanterns, moon cakes they carry
大红灯笼，他们携带月饼
Through the village in solitude
通过在村庄孤独
Come, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
来吧，中秋中秋
Enchanting and captivating
迷人魅力
How placid and tranquil life would be
如何平静和安宁的生活会
Prescribed in Chinese traditions
在中国传统的订明
Ordained by ancient customs and cultures
晋铎的古老的习俗和文化
This vision I cherish
我珍惜这一设想
In dreams by night
夜间在梦中
A thousand years be a night
一千年是一个夜晚
Blissful and enthralling
德佑和迷人
In quietude I surmise
在宁静我猜测
Come autumn be my bride
秋天来成为我的新娘
On a mid-autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Be betrothed in romance
许配浪漫
A Moon a-shining in glory
月亮照在荣耀
The moon cake awaiting
月饼等待
I yearn to gaze and eat
我渴望的目光和吃
By a river in moonlight
由一个在月光河
In an ancient village
在一个古老的村庄
Pretty lanterns and willow trees
漂亮的灯笼和柳树
Boulevard the waters
大道水域
Romantic and enchanting
浪漫和迷人
At last, vision is but a vapor
最后，视觉只不过是水蒸气
That vanishes by the break of the day
这消失的一天休息
Yet, this dream, my hope
然而，这个梦，我的希望
My desire, my wish
我的愿望，我的愿望
A Joyful Moon Cake Festival
欢乐的月饼节
Before moonset for another day
另一天月落之前
This, is my earnest wish for you
这是我对你的殷切希望
- lim ju boo 林 如 武 (Lin Ru Wu)
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
A Poem for Moon-cake Festival
Dear friends,
I have penned a Mid-Autumn Festival poem for you and your family. I thought since Moon-cake Festival is a Chinese festival seeped in tradition, it would best for me to write them in Chinese instead of in English. So I decided to translate my poem into Chinese which is just below each English verse.
But since some Chinese are English educated like myself, they may not know how to read Chinese characters, I have also translated the characters into Romanized Chinese (pinyin) so that even English educated friends can read the Romanized version.
Unfortunately, Chinese is a tonal language, and with Mandarin Chinese, it is based on 4 tones, plus a neutral tone. But I am unable to type these 4 tonal strokes to indicate how they should be pronounced (the pitch) since Microsoft word does not support pinyin. So you need to guess a bit, especially if you have not studied Chinese language (Mandarin) before.
I hope I have translated my poem originally composed in English correctly into Chinese. Having done that, I have to translate them again into pinyin to indicate how they should sound (pronounced) in English. Thus it was quite a task for me since I was English educated, and have never studied Chinese before.
I am not fluent in Chinese language myself having only learnt Mandarin only at the age of 69 (I am now 71) which I taught myself entirely without a teacher. This was long after my retirement from Civil Service in 1994. It was just two years ago (2008) that I decided to learn Mandarin as part of my life-long education.
This is the same position when I started to learn to play the violin at the age of 67 while others start to learn it at the age 6. But now I can play almost all classical composition for the violin except violin concertos. But it can be done. It is a matter of putting 6-10 hours a day in violin practice for another 6 months. It is a matter of determination, and willingness to learn no matter what age.
Having given the reasons above, you need to excuse me if I make mistakes with my Mandarin translation.
I hope you like my poem.
Best wishes for Moon-cake Festival & regards
jb lim
A Poem for Moon-cake Festival:
一个月饼节的诗：
yi ge yue bing de shi
A Mid-Autumn Dream
一个中秋梦
yi ge zhong qiu jie
In an ancient village
在一个古老的村庄
zai yi ge gu lao de chun zhuang
On a lonely night
在一个孤独的夜晚
zai yi ge gu du de ye wan
In bygone days of early China
在早期中国往日
zai zao qi zhong guo wang ri
Nestled in a valley among hills
坐落在一个山谷之间的丘陵
zhuo luo zai yi ge shan gu zhi jian de qiu ling
As Mother Nature has it
正如大自然有它
zhen ru da zhi ran you da
A lonely river through the village
一个孤独的河穿过村庄
yi ge gu du de he chuan guo chun zhuang
Avenue with weeping willow tress
大街上垂柳枝条
Da jie shang chui liu zhi tiao
Running crystal clear waters in moonlight
运行在月光清澈
Yun xing zai yue guang qing che
Meandering its course down
蜿蜒的课程下来
Wan yan de ke xhen xia lai
The hills and valleys below
以下的丘陵和山谷
Yi xia de qiu ling ge shan gu
In moonlight and in tranquility
在月光下与安宁
Zai yue guang xia yu an ning
On a mid autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Zai yi ge zhong qiu ye
Conjure up the bright Full Moon above
想起了上面的明亮的圆月
Xiang qi le shang mian de ming guang de yuan yue
On a mid autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Zai yi ge zhong qiu ye
Her cool radiance shines
她的寒光闪耀
Ta de han guang shan yao
Over mountains and valleys
在高山和峡谷
Zai gao shan he xia gu
The village and placid streams
平静的村庄和溪流
Ping jing de chun zhuang he xi liu
In the stillness of the night
在寂静的夜晚
Zai ji jing de ye wan
On a breezy mid autumn night
在一个凉风习习中秋夜
Zai yi ge liang feng xi xi zhong qiu ye
Crystal clear, bright, solitary her light
清澈，明亮，孤独的她的光芒
Qing che, ming liang, gu du de ta de guang mang
Dreamy and romantic
梦幻和浪漫
Meng huan he lang man
Small children gazing at the Moon
在赏月的小孩子
Zai shang yue de xiao hai zi
Red lanterns, moon cakes they carry
大红灯笼，他们携带月饼
Da hong deng long, ta men xie tai yue bing
Through the village in solitude
通过在村庄孤独
Tong guo de chun zhuang gu du
Come, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
来吧，中秋中秋
Lai ba, zhong qiu zhong qiu
Enchanting and captivating
迷人魅力
Mi ren mei li
How placid and tranquil life would be
如何平静和安宁的生活会
Ru he ping jing he an ning de shen huo hui
Prescribed in Chinese traditions
在中国传统的订明
Zai zhong guo chuan tong de ding ming
Ordained by ancient customs and cultures
晋铎的古老的习俗和文化
Jin duo de gu lao de xi su he wen hua
This vision I cherish
我珍惜这一设想
Wo zhen xi zhe yi she xiang
In dreams by night
夜间在梦中
Ye jian de meng zhong
A thousand years be a night
一千年是一个夜晚
Yi qian nian shi yi ge ye wan
Blissful and enthralling
德佑和迷人
De you he mi ren
In quietude I surmise
在宁静我猜测
Zai ning jing wo cai che
Come autumn be my bride
秋天来成为我的新娘
Qiu tian laic hen wei wo de xin liang
On a mid-autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Zai yi ge zhong qiu ye
Be betrothed in romance
许配浪漫
Xu pei lang man
A Moon a-shining in glory
月亮荣耀的照映
Yue guang rong yao de zhao ying
The moon cake awaiting
月饼等待
Yue bing den dai
I yearn to gaze and eat
我渴望的目光和吃
Wo ke wang de mu guang he chi
By a river in moonlight
由一个在月光河
You yi ge zai yue guang he
In an ancient village
在一个古老的村庄
Zai yi ge gu lao de chun zhuang
Pretty lanterns and willow trees
漂亮的灯笼和柳树
Piau liang de deng long he liu shu
Boulevard the waters
大道水域
Da dao shui yu
Romantic and enchanting
浪漫和迷人
Lang man he mi ren
At last, vision is but a vapor
最后，视觉只不过是水蒸气
Zui hou, shi jue zhi bu guo shi shui zhen qi
That vanishes by the break of the day
这消失的一天休息
Zhe xiao shi de yi tian xiu xi
Yet, this dream, my hope
然而，这个梦，我的希望
Ran er, zhe ge meng, wo de xi wang,
My desire, my wish
我的愿望，我的愿望
Wo de yuan wang, wo de yuan wang
A Joyful Moon Cake Festival
欢乐的月饼节
Huan le de yue bing jie
Before moonset for another day
另一天月落之前
Ling yi tian yue luo zhi qian
This, is my earnest wish for you
这是我对你的殷切希望
Zhe shi wo dui ni de yin qie xi wang
- lim ju boo 林 如 武 (Lin Ru Wu)
I have penned a Mid-Autumn Festival poem for you and your family. I thought since Moon-cake Festival is a Chinese festival seeped in tradition, it would best for me to write them in Chinese instead of in English. So I decided to translate my poem into Chinese which is just below each English verse.
But since some Chinese are English educated like myself, they may not know how to read Chinese characters, I have also translated the characters into Romanized Chinese (pinyin) so that even English educated friends can read the Romanized version.
Unfortunately, Chinese is a tonal language, and with Mandarin Chinese, it is based on 4 tones, plus a neutral tone. But I am unable to type these 4 tonal strokes to indicate how they should be pronounced (the pitch) since Microsoft word does not support pinyin. So you need to guess a bit, especially if you have not studied Chinese language (Mandarin) before.
I hope I have translated my poem originally composed in English correctly into Chinese. Having done that, I have to translate them again into pinyin to indicate how they should sound (pronounced) in English. Thus it was quite a task for me since I was English educated, and have never studied Chinese before.
I am not fluent in Chinese language myself having only learnt Mandarin only at the age of 69 (I am now 71) which I taught myself entirely without a teacher. This was long after my retirement from Civil Service in 1994. It was just two years ago (2008) that I decided to learn Mandarin as part of my life-long education.
This is the same position when I started to learn to play the violin at the age of 67 while others start to learn it at the age 6. But now I can play almost all classical composition for the violin except violin concertos. But it can be done. It is a matter of putting 6-10 hours a day in violin practice for another 6 months. It is a matter of determination, and willingness to learn no matter what age.
Having given the reasons above, you need to excuse me if I make mistakes with my Mandarin translation.
I hope you like my poem.
Best wishes for Moon-cake Festival & regards
jb lim
A Poem for Moon-cake Festival:
一个月饼节的诗：
yi ge yue bing de shi
A Mid-Autumn Dream
一个中秋梦
yi ge zhong qiu jie
In an ancient village
在一个古老的村庄
zai yi ge gu lao de chun zhuang
On a lonely night
在一个孤独的夜晚
zai yi ge gu du de ye wan
In bygone days of early China
在早期中国往日
zai zao qi zhong guo wang ri
Nestled in a valley among hills
坐落在一个山谷之间的丘陵
zhuo luo zai yi ge shan gu zhi jian de qiu ling
As Mother Nature has it
正如大自然有它
zhen ru da zhi ran you da
A lonely river through the village
一个孤独的河穿过村庄
yi ge gu du de he chuan guo chun zhuang
Avenue with weeping willow tress
大街上垂柳枝条
Da jie shang chui liu zhi tiao
Running crystal clear waters in moonlight
运行在月光清澈
Yun xing zai yue guang qing che
Meandering its course down
蜿蜒的课程下来
Wan yan de ke xhen xia lai
The hills and valleys below
以下的丘陵和山谷
Yi xia de qiu ling ge shan gu
In moonlight and in tranquility
在月光下与安宁
Zai yue guang xia yu an ning
On a mid autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Zai yi ge zhong qiu ye
Conjure up the bright Full Moon above
想起了上面的明亮的圆月
Xiang qi le shang mian de ming guang de yuan yue
On a mid autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Zai yi ge zhong qiu ye
Her cool radiance shines
她的寒光闪耀
Ta de han guang shan yao
Over mountains and valleys
在高山和峡谷
Zai gao shan he xia gu
The village and placid streams
平静的村庄和溪流
Ping jing de chun zhuang he xi liu
In the stillness of the night
在寂静的夜晚
Zai ji jing de ye wan
On a breezy mid autumn night
在一个凉风习习中秋夜
Zai yi ge liang feng xi xi zhong qiu ye
Crystal clear, bright, solitary her light
清澈，明亮，孤独的她的光芒
Qing che, ming liang, gu du de ta de guang mang
Dreamy and romantic
梦幻和浪漫
Meng huan he lang man
Small children gazing at the Moon
在赏月的小孩子
Zai shang yue de xiao hai zi
Red lanterns, moon cakes they carry
大红灯笼，他们携带月饼
Da hong deng long, ta men xie tai yue bing
Through the village in solitude
通过在村庄孤独
Tong guo de chun zhuang gu du
Come, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
来吧，中秋中秋
Lai ba, zhong qiu zhong qiu
Enchanting and captivating
迷人魅力
Mi ren mei li
How placid and tranquil life would be
如何平静和安宁的生活会
Ru he ping jing he an ning de shen huo hui
Prescribed in Chinese traditions
在中国传统的订明
Zai zhong guo chuan tong de ding ming
Ordained by ancient customs and cultures
晋铎的古老的习俗和文化
Jin duo de gu lao de xi su he wen hua
This vision I cherish
我珍惜这一设想
Wo zhen xi zhe yi she xiang
In dreams by night
夜间在梦中
Ye jian de meng zhong
A thousand years be a night
一千年是一个夜晚
Yi qian nian shi yi ge ye wan
Blissful and enthralling
德佑和迷人
De you he mi ren
In quietude I surmise
在宁静我猜测
Zai ning jing wo cai che
Come autumn be my bride
秋天来成为我的新娘
Qiu tian laic hen wei wo de xin liang
On a mid-autumn night
在一个中秋夜
Zai yi ge zhong qiu ye
Be betrothed in romance
许配浪漫
Xu pei lang man
A Moon a-shining in glory
月亮荣耀的照映
Yue guang rong yao de zhao ying
The moon cake awaiting
月饼等待
Yue bing den dai
I yearn to gaze and eat
我渴望的目光和吃
Wo ke wang de mu guang he chi
By a river in moonlight
由一个在月光河
You yi ge zai yue guang he
In an ancient village
在一个古老的村庄
Zai yi ge gu lao de chun zhuang
Pretty lanterns and willow trees
漂亮的灯笼和柳树
Piau liang de deng long he liu shu
Boulevard the waters
大道水域
Da dao shui yu
Romantic and enchanting
浪漫和迷人
Lang man he mi ren
At last, vision is but a vapor
最后，视觉只不过是水蒸气
Zui hou, shi jue zhi bu guo shi shui zhen qi
That vanishes by the break of the day
这消失的一天休息
Zhe xiao shi de yi tian xiu xi
Yet, this dream, my hope
然而，这个梦，我的希望
Ran er, zhe ge meng, wo de xi wang,
My desire, my wish
我的愿望，我的愿望
Wo de yuan wang, wo de yuan wang
A Joyful Moon Cake Festival
欢乐的月饼节
Huan le de yue bing jie
Before moonset for another day
另一天月落之前
Ling yi tian yue luo zhi qian
This, is my earnest wish for you
这是我对你的殷切希望
Zhe shi wo dui ni de yin qie xi wang
- lim ju boo 林 如 武 (Lin Ru Wu)
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Jesus First Miracle in the Eyes of Science
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Jesus
First Miracle: A Hind Thought in My Eyes
https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2024/
The Mystery of Life: An Unmeasurable Vital Force
Mysteries of Life:
An unmeasurable Vital Force
Dear Ms Gewen,
Mysteries of Life
“Hype over Craig Venter's latest achievement outstrips the actual greatness of
it (Scientific American): From GenomeWeb”
Thank you for the above article you e-mailed to me on life and what was
mentioned in that web. I decided to reply to your attachment and your letter,
and put my own personal thoughts on this subject as my reply to you. It is
below in my blog.
First published on Wednesday, September 8, 2010
My view:
What exactly is this thing called ‘life’ is a
horrendous puzzle scientists can never be answered. They need to look to God
for the answer. Only God can tell us.
Tons of books, but no definition:
The scientists can write tons and tons of books
on biology, zoology, botany and all disciplines of biological and biomedical
sciences that could fill up entire national libraries, and even into the
Internet, but not a single one of them so far has define what life is, let
alone tell us exactly what life is, least of all, measure it?
Is it a vital force, an energy or what?
Is it a force, a form of energy, a vitalism (vital force), a power, a spirit, a soul, a kind of un-measurable invisible entity that resides inside a physical body that is able to control the pathways of thousands of biochemical reactions in a living body until it leaves the body when we die, leaving only the empty skeletal shell behind it once lived in?
When that happens all, every single chemical and biochemical reaction MUST come to and instant stop and return to the soil where they once belong because there is no more 'vital force' to control them anymore.
As a graduate in chemistry I am very familiar with the laws that govern chemical reactions. Some chemical reactions like like hydrogen and oxygen into water by burning, and water back into hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis are reversible, but many chemical reactions like the living chemistry of life into the chemistry of death are totally irreversible.
We understand this from our knowledge in biochemistry, physiology, chemical pathology and in medicine we learn forward and backwards and forward again many times over and have taken hundreds of examinations on these in the universities all our life
Characteristics of Life, but not Life itself:
When I was in school, we were asked in our
science class what is life? We would rattle off things like ‘life response to stimulus,
it feeds, it reproduces, it respires, it has locomotion…and so on. We were
taught that way.
But these are characteristics of life, but not
life itself. The question is ‘what exactly is life’? No scientist so far has
ever answered this, not as far as I have read. They don’t even know how to
define it, let alone describe or measure it.
Chemical footprints only:
Neither is life, DNA, nucleic acid, protein or an infective prion, sugars, electrolytes, salts that conduct bio-electricity, and so on life itself.
All these are just non-living organic nitrogen molecular fragments such as sugars, amino acids and minerals, but they are all non-living. They cannot have all the characteristics of life without a living host.
DNA for instance is just a chemical footprint of the existence of life, but DNA itself is not living. Neither are nano-fragments of a protein-like substance called prion. They cannot thrive without a living host. It has to enter a living body to reside and multiply there.
A Life for a Life! Cannot be Substituted:
A life can only give or transfer this ‘vital force’ to another life. Life cannot evolve from non-life objects like stones, cement metals and plastics.
A life has to
be sacrificed to give life to another life just as Jesus did. Similarly, all of us,
including the animals have to sacrifice its life as food to give another life, since food was once thriving with life till it was sacrificed to
support another life – The Bread of Life.
Scientists correctly call this the carbon food
chain till it returns to the earth on death to sprout out as plants life to provide food for
other animals to consume as food. This chain in cycles goes on and on. We cannot eat
bricks, mud, soil or another thing that does not have life in them.
Chemicals of Life:
This gave rise to questions whether or not such biochemical activities were an indication that some kind of life force that existed only in living matter were responsible for the chemistry of living things.
Scientists then concluded that biochemical activity do not necessarily require the presence of living cells, but can be driven by special chemical substances, called enzymes found in the cells.
Life for Life:
It requires a life to support another life and yet another life. I suppose that is why Christians give grace and thanks for every meal they eat no matter how rich they are.
They can buy many other things – property, land, luxury cars, etc. etc. but they cannot eat them as they are all non-living.
They cannot create or buy life, or change a non-living substance into a living thing. That power belongs absolute, and solely to God and God only.
A rich man cannot create life and use it for his daily food to keep him alive. He has to buy, grow, bargain, or beg for food which once has life in it, sacrifice it, and transfer that force into his body to keep him alive.
This was the life that was sacrificed and he
must thank God for his daily meals / bread as all Christian rich or poor must
realized.
Even kings, presidents and prime ministers do not have that power.
All must thank God for a life God created to give life to another. Jesus did
just that. Most of us do not realize this? Be
thankful as I write my on thoughts that all food once have life on them till we 'kill' it as food
The Gift of God:
It is the free gift of God to all living things.
Life itself cannot be bought with our physical wealth. I believe most Christian
do not understand this spiritual knowledge yet scientific and logical enough for us to accept. Most Christians merely
were told to give grace for their daily living (literally) bread, but actually they do not know the reason
The Goldilocks Zone:
When astronomers, particularly astrobiologists attempts to look for life as we know it in an exoplanet of another stellar system he would be searching for a planet within a habitable zone called the Goldilocks Zone around a star where the temperature is just right, namely it must not be too hot or too cold for liquid water to exist.
We know that all biological life requires water to exist, without which no life is possible But that is true to my understanding if the existence of physical life is incorporated together with an unknown life force such as a soul residing inside a physical body that may not require water to exist.
In short, life = chemicals of life plus a "living force"
As many as 123 definitions of life have been attempted and complied since the ancient Greeks and but none till today is satisfactory.
One definition seems to be favored by NASA: “a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution.
Definition of Life:
The normal definition of life is one that has cellular organization, ability to grow, respire, involves in metabolism and homeostasis, feeds and excretes, ability to reproduce itself, respond to stimuli and undergo evolution
One of the easiest ways to remember the definition of a living organism is the use of an acronym called MRS GREN to mean Movement, Respiration, Sensitivity, Growth, Reproduction, Excretion and Nutrition.
However, this definition like all other over 100 definitions attempted till today still does not specifically and accurately define life itself.
All only describe the characteristic or properties of a living organism, but not life itself. So what is it?
No satisfactory answer can be given without bringing in some un-measurable force or entities residing inside that makes the chemistry of life ticks as we know it.
Does Soul Exist?
Water is essential in order for most chemical reactions to take place.
This is especially true as water is needed as a media to carry the countless metabolic pathways in a living body.
But is there something else, such a spirit or a soul that thrive inside a living body that can live forever without water and yet is able to control all the thousands of chemical reactions taking place in a living body?
In order to answer that, let’s look at what the Bible has to say before God created Adam.
“And every plant of the field BEFORE it was in the earth, and every herb of the field BEFORE it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to RAIN upon the earth, and there was NOT a man to till the ground.
But there went up A MIST (water) from the earth, and
watered the whole face of the ground.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul”
(Genesis 2:5-7)
I am unsure how other interpret
these 3 verses, but to me it is so crystal clear that water was needed first
before the Lord God took the dust from the ground to create Adam.
But Adam was still not living UNTIL the Lord God blew into his nostrils God’s own breath and Adam became a LIVING SOUL.
Please note these two words “living” plus “soul”
If we put them together Adam was still NOT living, not until God blew His “life force” inside his body.
This 'breath of life' into Adam's lifeless body is yet to be defined by Science
till today.
In other words, this life force control all the laws of chemistry we learn in our chemistry and biochemistry of in a living body we learn in our undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses
When this 'living force' leaves the physical body, the body dies, and all the chemistry of life break down and return lifeless back into the soil, because there is no longer any higher force to control the laws of chemistry anymore
Does that make scientific sense to most of us reading this? It is very uncanny to learn or hear this the first time
We are made of Star Dusts:
If we have studied astronomy as I did at Oxford, we will understand we were all made from star dusts as a result of a supernova explosion somewhere among the massive stars millions or billions of light years away whose dusts landed here on Earth just about the same time Earth was created some 4.5 billion years ago.
We may have all originated from another world somewhere among the countless
billions of trillions of trillion of stars first before we were all sent here
to begin a new life in another world called Earth in another stellar (solar) system after the other world
ended its life violently in a supernova explosion? However we shall not go into
this subject further as it is beyond the scope of this essay.
The Bible teaches us, without most Christians realizing this:
‘in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of
thy life; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou returnest to
the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust
shalt thou return. ... (Genesis 3:19).
This is what scientists called the carbon food
chain. Absolutely how true and logical
‘Then shall the dust return to the earth as it
was: and the spirit shall return unto God ....’ (Ecclesiastes 12:7).
Again, absolutely how true as we have reasoned
it above, that when life chemistries end in our body, this thing called ‘life’
leaves the empty shell (body) and returns to the Giver of that ‘vital force’?
We
can see this scientific logic now – something I have wondered since a child.
Water is not required when our soul enters into a new spiritual heaven:
“Then I saw ‘a new
heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed
away, and there was no longer any sea.”
Life is A Lamp of Life:
Consider my thoughts that life can only be
transfer from life-to-life. Consider a series of unlit lamps. The lamps are our
bodies, what I consider as just the physical shell of the body. It has no life
in it. They all have oils and wicks in them.
These only represent all the physical structures and all the chemicals found in the body. These are the skeleton (wick), and all the glucose, DNA, amino acids, proteins, fats, minerals, biological fluids, etc.
These ingredients represent the oils and fuel in the body. But where is the flame which to me is the life itself. I call this The Flame of Life.
The oils and wicks in them are just the non-living chemicals in a body. They are all unlit and un-burnt.
In biochemistry and nutrition we call this metabolism. But what sets off this metabolism? Definitely it is not the chemicals inside. The oils and wick cannot mysterious burn by themselves.
The Lamp and Soul of Life:
In other words, the unlit lamp represents the whole physical body, the wick within are the systems, organs, tissues and cells that draws the oils of the lamp for its nourishment, but it is the flame that is the soul of the lamp that kept the entire lamp warm, bright and burning
They must be lighted in the first place. Someone
must carry the first torch – the flame (life) itself to light up the first
lamp.
Only then the first lamp will be lighted. Only then can this flame be transferred from one lamp to the next lamp. This was God who blew the flame into the nostrils of Adam to light up the first human life on Earth.
The Chain of Life called Evolution:
Only then can the Flame of Life be transferred from one person to another or from one living organism to another up the carbon chain as scientists call it.
Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) the English Naturalist from the University of Cambridge during his almost 5 years sea voyage in the HMS Beaqle all along the coasts of Africa to South America and to Australia collected vast specimen of life along the route, and published his world renown ‘The Origin of Spices’ was actually describing this flame of life spreading all over Earth which we call it Evolution of Life.
To my mind today, it was just the flame being transferred from lamp to lamp. To my mind, Darwin did not contradict the Bible’s Genesis how life was created.
The Potter and the Clay:
The creation of life is liken to the poitter and the clay. He take the clay from the soil to design and mould his potteries and fingurines.
Even after the potter has moulded his wares, they are still not the finished products. The clay potteries, figurines are still soft, limp, “lifeless” so to speak, and unfinished. In order for his wares to be useful to withstand the pressures of the environment, they need to change and adapt to very harsh environmental fluctuations to harden them. They need to be fired in a furnace to toughen them.
That fire is the lamp of life firing its energy into the clay to harden them for their survival over a certain lifespan. That’s where the breath of life of God unseen and unmeasurable was pumped into every life till today even for each child or offspring born to a mother for them to survive environmental changes.
It is not necessary that the mother must give or pass on life to the child on birth. The child can still be stillborn and dead when born. On a living birth we are all different
Similarly with the potteries of the potter. Each of his wares are different from each other even for the same design and model of his wares, as much are cups, saucers, bowls, vases all different in the hands of a potter using exactly the clay and soil from the earth where all life and clay porcelain must begin. It is up to the potter how and what he wants to do with the clay from the soil. But all the potteries and figurines are unfinished products and must be being brought to the fire of a furnace to “pump life into them” figuratively translated
As much as we, and all life created on earth are either slightly genetically different from each other or, as an entirely different species of life
All zoologists and evolutionary biologists know no life on earth is precisely the same or were they evolved from one species seamlessly to the next without a single missing link. A tiger is entirely different from a lion, cheetah, puma, jaguar, leopard, lynx, and a domestic cat., although they are all cats of the same family.
So are all the different species of fishes in the oceans as much as all the different birds in the air. They are all entirely different species of life as much as cups, saucers, bowls, plates and all porcelain products are different in the hands of the potter. They may be the same products, but they are still subtle differences. They are not exactly the same as all human races are different although we are all the human species as much as not all dogs, wolves and dingos are the same in the hands of God their Creator.
As scientists we are familiar with the classification of animals and into domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, suborder, families, genus and species, as much as we are familiar with genetics, and evolutionary biology, but we cannot explain why all life and animals seemed to be evolved so separately at different times since 3.7 billion years ago. The question we ask ourselves is, were they created separately which is quite different from being evolved very slowly through the eons of tens of millions of years for each species as given in the list here through the corridors of millions of years.
The question we also ask is, why are they so different if the changes are so infinitesimally minute due to tiny, tiny mutagenic changes over such a long period of time. In such a slow evolutionary process their anatomy, morphology and other features including their adaptability to the environment ought to be almost seamless or almost the same? But why are they so different and adapt so differently?
We do not know the answer using our understanding of minute mutagenic changes of their genes and why there are large differences in the nucleotide sequence of their DNA, at least my understanding on zoology, genetics and in evolutionary biology does not permit me.
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is moulded say to its moulder, “Why have you made me like this? Does the potter have no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honourable use and another for dishonourable use? (Romans 9:20–21)
“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots!
Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
or ‘Your work has no handles?” (Isaiah 45:9)
“Then the Lord said to him, '' Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?”
(Exodus 4:11)
Time is Relative:
Time with the Lord a day is like a thousand years (to humans) and a thousand years are like a day (to God). (2 Peter 3:8).
A million years in evolution of life on Earth is
just a day in Creation for God. He created everything in 7 Days, and one can
imagine how long in epoch and geological time scale this was for a human.
Again what yardstick did scientists use to measure time? Was it Earth’s time based on Solar time of 24 hour / day, Solar Year of 365.25 Solar Days, or was it on a Galactic Year which is 226 millions of years over a radius of about 26 thousand light-years through which a galaxy spins?
God Eternal Time Cannot be Measured:
This is like conducting an medical experiment on rats and measuring time using a rat’s life span as the yardstick. Why not we use our life span or our clock as we normally do when we measure time as the measurement of time.
When scientists conduct an experiment on rats in a laboratory it is like God conducting an experiment on us using God's time and not our time similar to us using rat's time. We don't do that. We use time as given on our human clock as much as God measure time according to His yardstick of measurements which is eternity
Most scientists believe Creation of Life on Earth was not in a day, but in millions of years through evolution.
But most Christians were misled by Satan to interpret the time literally given in Genesis
Satan even managed to effectively blinded the highly eminent Cambridge scientist Charles Darwin FRS into believing the creation and evolution of life could not have taken Day 1, Day 2 ...Day 6.
If Satan could blind such a scientific intellectual, we can see how effectively Satan has blinded billions of humans over the centauries.
In Bondage and in Darkness:
All these argumentative and quarrelsome scientists are very effectively and heavily blinded by Satan so that they cannot escape.
Satan is very cleaver Devil who came in disguise to permanently blind and deceive people including the learned scientists and religious people, the believers and the disbelievers to keep all of them into eternal bondage of darkness by using their scientific knowledge to clash with spiritual wisdom God actually gave them.
But the Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.’
From Lamp-to-Lamp:
It is only a flame (of life) can be transferred from one unlit lamp to the next unlit lamp. If not for this vital force (life or energy), all the lamps will remain unlit throughout all eternity. This mysterious vital force can only given by God Himself.
No other person has this gift and power. So we ask ourselves where this flame came from. Was it originally brought to Earth from outer-space and seeded onto Earth as some scientists like Astrophysicist Sir Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) of Cambridge and Chandra Wickramasinghe (1939 - ) in their panspermia theory believed?
Life seeded from Outer Space?
Even if life was seeded by comets in the Black Orts Clouds in the Kuiper belt at the fridges of the Solar System, where and how were those viruses created. They couldn’t just be present without an origin in the cosmic Black Cloud?
Even if they were exogenous sources of life, viruses
still cannot multiply without a living host on Earth. So how did life began on
Earth? Where did that flame come from?
My answer is it must only come from a non-material Being, a Creator, a Programmer, and an Intelligent Designer we respectfully called God.
But I am not sure about Allah which the Muslims do not allow the Christians to use in Malaysia, but not in all other Islamic countries since Allah is just an Arabic name for God to my understanding
But I am also unsure about the names of gods of other religions.
Only One Nameless God I know:
I only know the God of the Christians, the God of the Jews, and the same God of Israel that protected them from the Palestine to this day as written in the Bible (Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 11:12). This is the only living God the Christians know.
I do not think God ever gave a name
for Himself? He is Spiritual Being. He does not require a name for Himself and
He requires no earthy mortals to call him by a certain name? That’s my inner
thought, that still small voice speaking to me. I do not know about others.
The Christians acknowledge Him as their Heavenly Father just as all children on Earth respectfully call their parents as ‘father, daddy, dad, papa, mama, mummy, mum, etc.
No children will disrespectfully address their parents by their surnames or any other names such as Mr. so and so, or Mrs. so, and so! How rude for children to do this. We just call our parents "papa or mama"
Now my gentle readers can read my thoughts, just
a glimpse of it what I thought as a boy, and penned it down all 48 pages of
them on January 1981.
My Small Thought:
I have since as a small child thought about this mystery for a long time.
In the January of 1981 I decided to write about this, and had my thoughts ‘The Mystery of Life’ published in the Newsletter of the Astronomical Society of Malaysia (ASM). It was a lengthy article expressing my thoughts, my views on the biochemistry in the body before and after death.
I then described what happens to this vital
force residing inside the body once it leaves the body as an empty shell.
jb lim
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