Change is the only permanence!

 The only permanent fact is change. Why such philosophising couched in a paradox? Well, I came across certain inputs about 'facts' so far considered permanent. Apparently, these seem to be changing, too. 

Let us look at a few. As usual, the doom's day predictions with either a meteor or a comet flying too close to the earth are aplenty. I suppose, by now, all of us have learnt to accept such astral mavericks with not a pinch, but a kilo, of salt.

It is, however, serious stuff when the astronomical authorities confirm that the moon is inching away from the earth. As a result, very soon, the day would be packed with twenty-five hours. Should make Infosys Murthi very happy, given his insistence on a seventy-hours-long-week!

Geologists, on the contrary, are assuring us that the innermost core of the earth is rotating the other way round! The movement may not be noticable on the surface of the earth. Yet this rotation is absolutely affecting the axis of the earth and may impact many so-called permanent geological axioms. 

Yet another curious find is the dark oxygen on the deepest ocean bed. Oxygen, as we have so far known it, needs sunlight for its emergence and existence. Plants release it through photosynthesis.

 Now marine biologists have located that certain algae on the deepest sea bed, where it is pitch dark, are releasing oxygen without the sun rays or the photosynthesis.

Right now, as the mad race for this very rare and precious phenomenon is heating up, it is the right time to restrict its excessive drilling and pumping, and what not.  This recently discovered phenomenon proves two of my suppositions though. The first is that we know so little about the sea which surrounds us, wherever we may go. 

The second supposition is that if life on earth were to be destroyed, (given the signs looming large of the Third World War which would be fatal if it were to happen, given the abundant nuclear weapons most all countries have stashed themselves with), it would begin yet again from the seas, near the shore as it did some aeons ago! Thus gets proved the supposition this blog began with, change is permanent, and permanence is change!

Pratima@ It is not just the Revolution 4.0 nor the AI nor the eternal cycle of  Financial Depression, already imminent  in the U.S., and thus across the world via the spiral effect, that is the real threat, right?