Tell me why? Tell me how?

Sripathy JAYAMAHA

I am no scientist like Isaac Newton nor a philosopher like Bertrand Russel.

Mount Everest

A glacier

The Autumn season

However, there are a few wonderful happenings in the planet that we live in, that baffle me. Maybe somewhat silly of me. Evolution of men ends with the Neandherthal Man. Development of man stops. Then, suddenly the modern, intelligent, handsome man came in, civilization began. How? Why?

Man has studied the universe. About the twinkling stars in the sky and the planets that orbit around the sun, while rotating on its own axis? How? Why? Our earth take twenty four hours for the latter and three hundred and sixty five days around the sun giving us night and day. Also a year respectively, fascinating. Noble Newton showed us why objects fall onto mother earth. But why does everything that goes up come down? A world without gravity. Planets, satellites, meteors, jumbo jets, flying all over. The sky will be dark with swirling objects. Why gravity? Why an ozone layer to save living beings from dehydration why should there be the space between the earth and the sun comprise of different layers as discovered by man? Thunder and lightning occur at the same time. The speed of light and the speed of sound travel at different speeds. Why? we see lightning, then can thunder be far behind. Why? Still its fantastic. How is there a 4 C layer of water below the mighty masses of snow? Fish and other aquatic life live in it, why? The seasons in temperate regions. Autumn, leaves turn colour, begins to fall. Trees go to sleep. Animals go to sleep, the hedgehog, some begin to stock their abodes with food.

Winter, hibernation till spring. Why? How? What if the rhinocerous, hippopotamus, elephant and the whale were flesh eating? Where would we humans, and denizens of the sea and land be. Just think. Whales, shark, sea serpents, jelly fish swimming up stream to keep company with the gatakimbula. A nightmare. Have you seen the hik-meeya (white mouse) being pursued by cats. No. The former is slow. Has a bad taste. Always on the ground. It does not become the prey of cats.

But not so, the roof climbing, swift Rattus rattus. A cat's delight. Why had the land lubber being spared? How? The centepede is swift, could creep into any crevice in a second. Succulent meal for the birds. The millipede- hakaralla is very slow. Curls up when disturbed. Birds end terrestrial cock birds give it a wide birth. It happily roams about. Only humans harm them. Tell me why?

Please tell me as to what the world could be had the mighty anaconda and the python had poison glands in keeping with their size? Or the common garandiya or rat-snake had poison glands. Catastrophic.

Human beings, from may be their infant stage to dotage have an affinity to sweet food. Unless of course, the pancreas goes on the war path. No one likes bitter food. Same with animals and birds. They cannot be even conditioned to lap up bitter food. Why? How?

The hatched fingerlings of the salmon swimming down fresh water streams to the sea. They traverse the chilly seas of the North. After around four years, the gravid female returns to the same river stream that brought them to the ocean as fingerlings, swim upstream without food. Lay eggs, return exhausted and undernourished. Never to return to the sea. They become prey to other predators and human salmon hunters. Now, why the same source of fresh water. Scientists have tagged them. But they have never been able to tell the world why?

Massive earth tremors that brought desolation to millions. The tremors took place in the ocean bed. What if they had taken place on land. Mount Everest, Antartica, Arizona, Florida, The Siberian wastes or in the Inland Sees like the Dead Sea, Caspian Sea, Black Sea or in the Sahara. Unthinkable. Our lovely scientists can tell us why. But how end when ? That is the question.

Yes! We learnt about all this from cradle to grave. Beautiful with all these unanswered questions, I still believe that we, as humans, and all other living creatures and nature can live in harmony and peace in our lovely planet.