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Where Science and Medicine End, The Eternal Breath of Life Begins

 This article and comment  by me is dedicated to Professor Dr Vythilingam 

There is a WhatsApp circular from Professor Dr Vythilingam s/o Palaniandy Pilla, a close friend of mine who share his WhatsApp message with me about a specialist doctor in the UK who died after being given an overdose of amphotericin

It was written "BMJ" there. This means he must have got the report from the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Here is the report I received:  

 

Doctor dies after hospital he worked at gave him wrong medicine

 

By Clare Dyer

 

A senior histopathologist died of an overdose after being given the wrong medicine by staff at the NHS trust where he worked.

 

Ray McMahon, a professor of gastrointestinal pathology at the University of Manchester and consultant histopathologist with Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust,1 had a cardiac arrest after being given the drug, which was three times too strong.

 

McMahon, who was also president elect of the International Academy of Pathology, died in February aged 68, four days after being admitted to Wythenshawe Hospital with a low grade fever, reduced appetite, and cough.

 

An inquest into his death at the Manchester coroner’s court heard that McMahon had been transferred to intensive care and that an infectious disease consultant had recommended that he be given liposomal amphotericin, a drug used to treat fungal respiratory infections, if his condition did not improve. The drug is normally stored at room temperature on a shelf in the pharmacy but, in error, a preparation of liposomal amphotericin that needed to be stored in the fridge was prescribed instead. As a result of this error a trainee pharmacist looked in the fridge and wrongly identified non-lipid amphotericin as the correct medicine.

 

Liposomal amphotericin requires a considerably larger dose than the non-lipid drug. As a result, McMahon was given a significant overdose of the non-lipid drug for nearly an hour. His condition deteriorated, and he had a cardiac arrest. Resuscitation attempts were unsuccessful, and he died.

 

Katherine Ajdukiewicz of Manchester University NHS 

Foundation Trust told the court that a “cascade of errors” had led to McMahon’s death.

 

Multiple failings

 

The acting senior coroner, Zak Golombek, concluded that McMahon had died after an overdose of the incorrect medicine and that neglect had contributed to his death.

 

McMahon’s wife, Claire McMahon, a retired GP, said,

“I and my family would like to express our extreme disappointment, distress, and sadness at what happened to Ray, especially within the trust that he’d worked in for many years. “Ray devoted his whole life to the NHS, but as a patient he was failed by Wythenshawe Hospital. We are grateful for the thorough investigation undertaken by the hospital, but to know that both system and individual failures caused his death is devastating.

Our disappointment extends to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust as an organisation.”

 

Rachael Heyes, a specialist medical negligence solicitor at the law firm JMW, representing the McMahon family, said, “What happened to Ray was a complete tragedy. There were multiple failings in his care, including the initial prescribing and the dispensing of the antifungal medication.

 

“I hope that the trust can learn from what happened and ensure that the processes now in place are effective and no other patients are exposed to potentially serious harm in the future.”

 

Sohail Munshi, joint chief medical officer at the trust, said that McMahon had been a valued member of staff for many years who had made significant contributions to the health service. He added, “We are committed to providing the best care possible for our patients, and we will be reviewing the coroner’s conclusion carefully, to ensure that any further learning for the trust is addressed and applied to our constant work to improve our patients’ safety, quality of care, and experience.”

 

the BMJ

 

Here is my comment.

 

Let us accept this as gospel truth.

 

Whether or not Dr Ray McMahon was given an under dose, the correct dose or a lethal overdose of amphotericin, he still like all of us must die one day together with all the doctors who treated him. Once dead it makes no difference whether we die young or old whatever the cause

 

Medicine does not prevent us from death for sure. Untold number of doctors all too have already died in the past. New ones will arise and they too must die together with their patients later. There is no cure for death, with or without medicine. This will also happen to non doctors too.

 

In Ecclesiastes 12:7 of the bible it clearly tells us we shall all  return as dust  to the ground from where we came (with or without medicine) 

 

It states, "and the spirit returns to God who gave it". This verse is often paired with the phrase that "the dust returns to the earth as it was" to describe the separation of the body and spirit at death (irrespective of whatever medicine the doctor gave - whether the correct or overdose)

 

 Just remember this verse :

 

"Thou does art unto dust thou returnth"  from Genesis 3:19

 

This means "by the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return". 

 

This verse explains that work will be a source of struggle and frustration - whether we are a doctor, a scientist, engineer, teacher, technician, a nurse, a businessman, a politician,  a prime minister or even a king

 

All will have to go into dust and ash, and that the physical body of a person is mortal and will return to the earth after death.

 

This is spiritual food and spiritual medicine for our eternal soul. They are not chemical medicines prescribed by doctors for our physical body.

 

I have already explained to everyone humanity fleeting moments since creation 

 

How else do you want me to explain 

 

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2025/11/humanitys-fleeting-moment-in-age-of.html?m=1

Let me rewrite the above in a more somber reflection on the brevity of life with more spacing 'to breathe' 

The passing of Prof. Ray McMahon reminds us of a truth that medicine, science, and technology, despite all their triumphs, can never escape. Even when every dose is correct and every decision is precise, life remains a fragile flicker in the vast silence of time. Whether through error or accuracy, through illness or age, each of us walks a path that eventually leads to the same destination.

Death does not bow to knowledge, nor does it respect status. It comes to the healer as it comes to the afflicted, to the scholar as to the child. Our machines may grow more powerful, our medicines more precise, our laboratories more advanced, but none of these can alter the truth that the human body is temporary, a vessel sustained for a moment in eternity.

Scripture speaks simply and profoundly:
“The dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7)

“For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” (Genesis 3:19)

These words are not merely ancient poetry; they are a mirror held before the human soul. They remind us that we spend so much of our lives strengthening the body, while the spirit, the one part of us that does not perish, is left unattended.

We chase cures, extend years, correct errors, and refine our technologies. Yet no discovery, however brilliant, can grant immortality. At best, medicine touches the body; it cannot reach into the chambers of the heart where humility, compassion, and eternal meaning dwell.

Perhaps our greatest illusion is the belief that life will respect us for our achievements, the university degrees after our names, the titles before our names,  our wealth, our power and status in society. But illness strips these away, and death dissolves them to silence. What remains is not the pride of our accomplishments, but the condition of our soul.

Therefore, the truest healing is spiritual.
The deepest medicine is humility.
The only enduring life is the one that begins when this mortal one ends.

In recognizing the brevity of life, we do not despair. Instead, we learn to walk gently, to speak kindly, to forgive quickly, and to hold lightly the things we cannot keep. For while the body returns to dust, the spirit journeys onward - to the God who breathed life into it.

Jb lim 

The Dual Symphony of Existence

 

Title:

The Dual Symphony of Existence: Opposites, Mirrors, and the Balance of All Things

(Thoughts of lim ju boo in the silence and stillness of the night) 

In the grand design of the universe, nothing exists in isolation. Every entity, force, or thought is paired with its reflection, its opposite, forming a vast cosmic symmetry that governs both matter and spirit. It was like the dream I had twice where I saw a twin and opposite universe here:  whttps://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-twin-universe-i-saw-twice.htm

From the smallest subatomic particle to the immeasurable reaches of the cosmos, from human emotion to divine justice, existence reveals itself as a dance between contrasts, as if creation itself were written in the language of duality.

The Eternal Law of Opposites

In every culture, faith, and science, there exists the recognition that opposites are not mere contradictions but complementary halves of a single truth. The Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang captures this elegantly: dark and light, cold and heat, life and death; each defines and sustains the other. Without shadow, there can be no understanding of light; without suffering, the meaning of joy would dissolve into indifference.

In physics, the universe mirrors this law. Every electron has its positron; matter itself coexists with antimatter. The laws of thermodynamics speak of equilibrium of heat flowing from hot to cold until balance is achieved. Even Einstein’s famous equation E = mc² binds two seeming opposites, energy and matter - into one fundamental unity.

In astronomy, black holes and stars are cosmic counterparts: one devours light, the other gives it. Expansion and contraction, birth and decay, explosion and implosion, all express nature’s rhythm of opposing energies that maintain the harmony of creation.

Reflections in Human Life and Consciousness

Human experience, too, is framed within the same paradoxical symmetry. We wake and sleep, love and hate, rise and fall, gain and lose. Beauty and ugliness, wisdom and folly, strength and weakness, these opposites define the spectrum of human existence. In society, peace cannot be understood without war, and justice gains meaning only in the shadow of injustice.

In our personal moral lives, virtue and vice are the moral poles that guide the soul’s compass. Good and evil, righteousness and wickedness, these are not arbitrary distinctions but necessary conditions for moral awareness. As Saint Augustine once wrote, “Without the contrast of darkness, we would not know light.”

Spiritual Parallels and the Eternal Inversion

This law of opposites finds its most profound expression in the spiritual realm. Jesus’ parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31) depicts the reversal of earthly fortune after death. The beggar who suffered on earth rests in Abraham’s bosom, while the rich man who lived in luxury faces torment. It is an eternal inversion of values - a mirror held up by divine justice.

Similarly, Jesus’ warning in Matthew 16:26, “For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” - reveals that the material and the spiritual are inverses on a cosmic scale. The temporal and the eternal cannot be measured by the same standard. What glitters here may turn to dust there; what is lost here may become eternal treasure beyond.

In this divine balance lies a universal moral symmetry: every cause has its effect, every deed its echo. The ancient Sanskrit concept of karma captures this principle of causation that transcends lifetimes. In Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism alike, karma is the moral law of the universe, the spiritual counterpart to Newton’s third law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Karma ensures that virtue and vice, compassion and cruelty yield fruits in perfect accordance with their nature. Though the religions of India envision this across cycles of rebirth, the essence remains: the universe is morally symmetrical. Even Western idioms such as “what goes around, comes around” or the biblical “you reap what you sow” (Galatians 6:7) echo this timeless truth.

Scientific Echoes of the Opposite Universe

Modern physics hints that our universe may itself be mirrored by another. The notion of an antimatter universe, identical to ours but running backward in time, is a serious hypothesis in cosmology. Quantum mechanics reveals particle –antiparticle pairs that annihilate upon meeting, releasing pure energy. These mirror symmetries, known as parity, were famously challenged by physicists Yang Chen-Ning and Tsung-Dao Lee, who showed that the laws of nature slightly favor one side over another, a cosmic reminder that even perfect symmetry may bend to divine asymmetry.

Time itself appears to have an opposite: the arrow of time moves forward in our experience, yet in the equations of physics, time could as easily flow backward. Perhaps, as your dream of the revolving twin universe suggested, an opposite world exists, where matter becomes antimatter, and time runs in reverse, perfectly reflecting our own in another dimension.

Healing and the Balance of Energy

Medicine, too, recognizes this universal duality. In Western medicine, disease is treated through chemistry and surgery, altering the material body through physical means. Yet in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), health is restored by balancing Qi, the vital life energy that flows through meridians. Here again, harmony arises from the equilibrium between Yin and Yang, activity and rest, heat and cold, expansion and contraction.

The Five Elements - Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water, represent dynamic relationships between organs and environments, echoing the cosmic interplay of opposites. Healing, in this worldview, is not a battle but a restoration of balance.

Even the miracles of Jesus demonstrate the divine mastery of this balance. He restored sight to the blind, mobility to the paralyzed, and life to the dead—not by chemical manipulation, but through the word of divine command. In those moments, the ultimate opposite was bridged: mortality yielded to immortality; the physical obeyed the spiritual.

The Fleeting and the Eternal

Human life, measured against the vastness of creation, is but a vapor that appears for a moment and vanishes.

See my thoughts in this link:

https://scientificlogic.blogspot.com/2025/11/humanitys-fleeting-moment-in-age-of.html

Yet what vanishes in the physical realm continues eternally in the spiritual. This contrast - between the fleeting and the everlasting, is perhaps the most poignant of all opposites.

If physical life is the day that ends in dusk, the soul is the dawn that never darkens. Death, then, is not the end but a transition, the mirror through which the temporal gives way to the infinite.

 Please Note:

My thoughts here speak of philosophical, moral, and cosmic opposites, light and dark, life and death, matter and antimatter, which express complementary and balance in Nature, and not literal mirror reversal of physical coordinates.

So, it doesn’t contradict the laws of parity in physics at all; rather it beautifully echoes the broader idea that symmetry and asymmetry coexist in nature just as in life.

So rest assured, this small thesis of mine does not violate the laws of parity in physics. I have written about conceptual dualities, balance, moral opposites, and cosmic complementary, and not the mathematical parity or symmetry in subatomic physics.

So, my ideas stand on philosophical elegant ground, and is not in contradiction to physical law.

In fact, it is in harmony with the deeper beauty behind the parity discovery, that even nature's asymmetry is part of a grandeur harmony.

Sometimes, imperfection itself completes the perfection of creation, a truth both science and faith can agree on.

I shall write an article on the Law of Parity in physics later.  

 

Conclusion: 

The Divine Geometry of Opposites

The universe, seen in its totality, is not chaotic but composed with exquisite balance. Opposites do not destroy each other; they define and sustain each other. The tension between them gives rise to beauty, meaning, and motion. The Creator, in infinite wisdom, wove contrast into the fabric of existence so that harmony might emerge from polarity.

In every sunrise after darkness, every act of compassion that conquers hatred, every spark of life born from decay—we witness the eternal rhythm of opposites. It is the music of creation, echoing from the atom to the galaxy, from the human heart to the mind of God.

Selected References and Further Reading

1. Laozi, Tao Te Ching – the foundational text of Yin–Yang balance.

2. Heraclitus, Fragments – “The way up and the way down are one and the same.”

3. Yang Chen-Ning and Tsung-Dao Lee (1957) – Parity Nonconservation in Weak Interactions.

4. Einstein, A. (1905) – Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content? (Annalen der Physik).

5. The Holy Bible – Luke 16:19–31; Matthew 16:26; Galatians 6:7.

6. Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita – on karma, dharma, and liberation (moksha).

7. Capra, Fritjof (1975) – The Tao of Physics – parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism.

8. Bohr, Niels – Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (1958) – the complementarity principle.

9. Taoist Canon and Huangdi Neijing – foundational works in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

10. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity – reflections on moral opposites and divine justice.

 

 

Humanity’s Fleeting Moment in the Age of Creation

Breath Among the Stars: Humanity’s Fleeting Moment in the Age of Creation

by blogger lim ju boo alias lin ru wu

Summary (in blue): 

Modern cosmology estimates that the universe began 13.79 billion years ago, according to the ΛCDM model and precise measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

The Earth formed later, approximately 4.54 billion years ago, based on radiometric dating of ancient meteorites and terrestrial minerals.

Against these vast spans of time, the human life - at its fullest reaching around 100 years, is but a fleeting whisper. Let us place our existence into perspective.

 

Scaling Human Life to Cosmic Time

If the entire age of the universe (13.79 billion years) were compressed into one day (24 hours):

One human lifetime of 

100 years would last  for

 only  0.000627 seconds 

≈ 0.627  milliseconds which is  less than

 the  blink of an eye.

If the age of Earth (4.54 billion years) were compressed into one day:

100 human years would 

last 0.001903  seconds 

≈ 1.9 milliseconds 

A breath within a breath of time.

 

Methuselah’s Life in Cosmic Scale

Methuselah, the longest-lived person recorded in Scripture, lived 969 years

(Genesis 5:27).

 

If Earth’s 4.54 billion years were a single day:

969 years ÷ 4.54×109×86400

 

≈ 0.0184 seconds

 

Methuselah’s nearly millennium-long life becomes ~0.018 seconds - eighteen-thousandths of a second.

 

Even the longest human life is a soft tap on eternity.

 

Human Civilisation: A Moment on a Clock Without Hands

Human civilisation arose roughly 6025 years ago (~4000 BC). 

6025 / 4.54 × 109 ≈ 1.33×10−6

That means organised human civilisation occupies only 0.000133% of Earth's history.

Our cities, our monuments, our sciences and wars, our empires and religions—
all within a microscopic sliver of time.

Sacred Time and Divine Perspective

The book of Genesis speaks of six days of creation and a seventh day of rest.
Interpretations range from literal 24-hour days to vast epochs, to theological poetry about divine purpose and order.

Scripture reminds us:

“With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day.”

(2 Peter 3:8)

Not a conversion formula, but a revelation that human time and God’s time are not the same currency.
Eternity is not measured in seconds; it is the absence of clocks.

Some theologians say God exists outside time.

Modern physics echoes this idea: time began with the Big Bang.
The Creator, if He is eternal, stands beyond the ticking of ions and stars.

A Somber Reflection

 

When our lifespan is a blink against the universe, our wealth, pride, and earthly accomplishments shrink into silence.

 

Where will our souls journey when our thousandth of a second here is done?
What eternal value do we build in the breath between birth and death?

 

As Psalm 90:12 prays:

 

“Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”

Life is not small because its time is short - it is sacred, precisely because it is brief.

Let us live wisely, love graciously, give generously,
and prepare our hearts for the eternity beyond this whisper of earthly time.

Let me rewrite an extended version to the above essay below in dark blue: 

The universe is approximately 13.79 billion years old, according to the standard cosmological model (Lambda−CDM model) and measurements of the cosmic microwave background. The age of the Earth is estimated to be approximately 4.54 billion years, with an uncertainty of less than 1%. This figure was determined using radiometric dating of meteorites, based on the understanding that the solar system's bodies formed at roughly the same time. If the Universe is 13.79 billion years old, and Earth is 4.54 billion years old, and the maximum human lifespan on Earth is 100 years, what fraction is 100 years of human lifespan compared to the age of the universe and Earth, respectively? Based on the provided scaling, a human lifespan of 100 years would be represented by approximately 0.000627 seconds if the age of the universe (13.79 billion years) is scaled to one day. If the age of the Earth (4.54 billion years) is used instead, 100 years would be approximately 0.001903 seconds. According to the Bible, God created the universe and the earth in six days, and rested on the seventh day. This narrative is found in the first book of the Bible, Genesis chapters 1 and 2. The sequence of creation events over the six days is described as follows: 

Day 1: Light was created and separated from darkness, forming day and night. Day 2: A firmament (sky or atmosphere) was created to separate the waters below from the waters above. 

Day 3: Dry land and seas were formed, and vegetation (plants and trees) was created. 

Day 4: The sun, moon, and stars were created to govern the day and night and to mark seasons and years. 

Day 5: Living creatures of the sea and birds were created. 

Day 6: Land animals and humans (Adam and Eve) were created. 

Day 7: God rested from all His work, blessing the seventh day and making it holy, establishing the pattern for the Sabbath day of rest.  

Interpretations of the "days" vary among different Christian and Jewish traditions. Some, known as young-earth creationists, interpret them as six literal, 24-hour periods. Others interpret the "days" as extended periods of time (the day-age view) or as a literary framework to convey theological truths about creation and the importance of a weekly rest cycle, rather than a strict chronological account. 

But according to cosmology, the Universe including Earth was born 13.79 billion years ago. If that is the case, how many seconds it took for God as equivalent to a year for humans. To calculate how many human seconds equate to one of God's years based on the two given time frames (6 Biblical days vs. 13.79 billion cosmological years), we first establish the ratio of "God's time" to "human time" for a humans. The Bible does not provide a single, direct conversion rate between "God's time" and "human time" in the way required to perform the requested in our calculation. Interpretations of the six days of creation vary widely, even among biblical scholars:  

Literal 24-hour days: Some interpret the "days" as six consecutive 24-hour periods, suggesting a young Earth (around 6,000 years old based on genealogies), which directly conflicts with the cosmological age. 

Long periods of time (Day-Age Theory): Other interpretations view the "days" (using the Hebrew word yom, which can mean an indefinite period) as long epochs, potentially millions or billions of years, which can be reconciled with scientific timelines. 

Figurative or theological meaning: Many mainstream theological views consider the creation narrative as a symbolic account meant to teach about the purpose of creation and the value of the Sabbath, rather than a literal scientific or historical timeline. 

Time relativity: Some interpretations use modern physics (like Einstein's theory of relativity and time dilation near a massive gravitational source like the Big Bang's origin point) to suggest that six days from God's perspective could span billions of years from an Earth-based perspective. 

God is outside of time: A common theological stance is that God exists outside of human time entirely, so applying human time units to God's actions is meaningless.  One biblical verse, 2 Peter 3:8, states: "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." This passage, often quoted in discussions of this nature, uses the word "as" or "like", indicating a figure of speech about God's eternal nature and perception of time, not a literal mathematical formula for time conversion.  Because there is no fixed, biblically defined conversion rate, it is impossible for us to calculate how many seconds for God would equal a year for humans in a universally accepted biblical framework.  

However, if you insist I answer despite my explanation, then since 13,790,000,000 (13.79 billion) human years which is the age of creation of this universe is then 6 God days ≈ 2,298,333,333 human years. The question asks is not how many seconds it was to God for a year for humans. This means we are comparing a period of 1 human year to the equivalent time in God's frame of reference.  Any calculation is not about how many human seconds equal a "God's year" (which is not defined in the problem), but rather determining the ratio of God's time to human time implied by these two accounts. Based on the premise that God created the universe in 6 days which corresponds to 13.79 billion human years, the implied ratio is that each one of God's days is equivalent to approximately 2.3 billion human years. This demonstrates an immense difference in the perception or scale of time between the two perspectives.  Methuselah was 969 years old when he died, making him the longest-living person mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. He was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah, according to the Book of Genesis. If the age of Earth at 4.54 billion years old was just a day, how many seconds would that be for 969 years. In other words, if Earth was a day old, how many seconds did Mathuselah lived? The straight answer without going into all those calculations is, Methuselah lived for only approximately 16.66 seconds. Life is a fleeting shadow. Let me remind all this somber thought for our souls for our human lifespan here in this world, compared to the age of the universe. If the age of the universe (13.8 billion years) were represented as a single day (24 hours), then our human life span at maximum of 100 years would last only approximately 0.23 milliseconds, or less than a thousandth of a second. If 4.54 billion years of Earth's history is represented as 24 hours, then 100 years of our life here in this world would only last for about 0.0000000045 seconds. Remind ourselves to where would our souls would carry all those wealth and properties we built and invested here on Earth  into another world to spend eternity there in those teeny-tiny fraction of one second we live here in this world ? Human civilization began between approximately 4000 and 3000 B.C. in early centers like Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley. These early civilizations developed complex societies with advancements in agriculture, architecture, and art, marking the start of a new era of human development.  4000 BC is approximately 6025 years ago from the present (2025). This is calculated by adding the years from 4000 BC to the current year, 2025, and remembering to account for the fact that there is no year 0 in the Gregorian calendar. This means human civilization existed only 1.327 x 10^ -6 (0.000001327) of a fraction since the birth of Earth

I shall follow up my above article next on: 

"The Dual Symphony of Existence: Opposites, Mirrors, and the Balance of All Things"

 Selected References

 

1. Planck Collaboration (2020). Planck 2018 Results. VI. Cosmological Parameters.

2. Dalrymple, G. Brent. The Age of the Earth. Stanford University Press, 1991.

3. NASA, WMAP & Planck Mission Cosmology Data

4. Genesis 1–2, 5; 2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:12 (Holy Bible)