A Short History of a Long Future: Introduction

A SHORT HISTORY OF A LONG FUTURE

A Guide for New-man

ISBN: 976-1-326-53176-8

This is a work of science fiction of the past and future based on the author's imagination.

The main aim of this book is to provide an overview of a wide range of topics in a simplified, entertaining and funny form that make readers think, that fires their desire to learn, and awakens their curiosity to question. May your mind hunger for more knowledge and your soul thirst for more understanding.

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Summary

Humans destroy nature and replace their organs by machines and greatly extend their lives. When only their brains are left, they find a safe haven for them and start to control their machine bodies remotely. This allows humans to live indefinitely. An expedition to study a black hole is made and a new universe is found.

Humans eventually design a new form of life called “new-man” to populate a planet where nature is reintroduced. They teach new-man all they know, and to their surprise, new-man helps them understand their past and discover their own designer.

Foreword

I started to write this novel for myself so that I could understand my universe better and make some sense of it. The universe and nature seem to follow the laws of chaos. The laws of chaos define relationships of events for complex chaotic systems.

"A butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world can cause a hurricane on the other side of the earth."

Chaotic systems are systems that seem random and in-deterministic, but aren't. They are actually deterministic systems governed by physical laws that are predictable if you have enough information. The law of chaos states that for every action there is a consequence. And that the more you know your past, the better and farther you see your future.

Like weather forecasting.

We find ourselves situated between the large scale of the universe too large to observe in detail, and in the small scale of the atom too small to observe directly. The patterns that we observe in our world are similar to patterns of the galaxy and of the atoms they are composed of.

We have enough information left behind from signals in the universe, fossils on earth, and books in universities, to see that there is an order in our seemingly disordered world and that history repeats following the laws of chaos. This book is an extrapolation of the past and an exploration of the future.

The plot of this story, like a chaotic system formed as I was writing. The numbers and values used as historic dates and scientific data are ball-park figures taken from books. I take full poetic license for any inaccuracies of any kind.

To a great extent I was inspired by 2 books - “The Holy Bible” and “The Bible According to Einstein”.

I realized that the analogies used in the 2 books to explain concepts of religion and science greatly facilitated my own understanding of the universe and how it all fits together, I decided to write this book for students of all ages studying physics, chemistry, biology, and history. It is my hope that this book will kindle students to think about all the wide range of issues covered; especially the health and environmental issues that are at the moment threatening our well-being. The simplified analogies are italicized.

Adults who like science-fiction might enjoy this book. Readers whose mother tongue is not English might benefit by being exposed to the many specialized words used in science and philosophy, explained simply, and in the context of an entertaining short story. For the scientists, historians, and religious people that this book might offend, I make no apologies. It is a science-fiction.

I hope this book will educate, entertain, and open the reader's imagination by contemplating on what was, what is, and what could be, and why.

Introduction

This historical account is written by Dr Joe Ova on behalf of all humans from the planet earth in the Milky Way galaxy. It is a summary of events experienced by our human race. It describes our history starting from the big bang that gave birth to our universe, to the stars that died to give birth to the atoms that dusted our universe. The star dust clumped to form planets. With time the soup of atoms on earth cooked molecules to form life which evolved into humans who evolved brains that eventually achieved physical immortality. Our latest task, still ongoing, is to study the evolution of "new-man", the living being we designed.

This is our story.

We eventually killed nature that nourished us so well for so long. Our sun that warmed and lighted us so brightly for so long eventually grew cold and darkened as if in mourning.

An expedition was made by selected scientists into a black hole. As expected and hoped, it led to a new universe. Brave pioneering brains populated and seeded this new universe with nature. When seeds took root and nature germinated we designed a new human genome which was a great improvement over the genome of our ancestors. A collection of the best genes in nature's genome was used. An experiment was started to find out how these improvements to this new life form would help them evolve, and to speed it up and to raise the heights of their life experience. It was our hope that they would surpass our level and that we could eventually learn from them. We called him "new-man".

It took humanity 10,000 years and 144,000 million of our ancestors who unknowingly sacrificed their lives allowing us to achieve immortality. It is our hope that new-man will achieve his immortality much faster and more peacefully than us without using and losing as many ancestors as we did. This account is written mainly for new-man. May it serve him well.

INDEX

Universe, god and man

https://andrewvecseyfilesashorthistory.blogspot.com/2020/02/part-1-chapter-1.html

Scientists

https://andrewvecseyfilesashorthistory.blogspot.com/2020/02/part-1-chapter-3.html

Growth and exploitation

https://andrewvecseyfilesashorthistory.blogspot.com/2020/02/part-1-chapter-4.html

Death of money

https://andrewvecseyfilesashorthistory.blogspot.com/2020/02/part-1-chapter-5.html

Death of nature

https://andrewvecseyfilesashorthistory.blogspot.com/2020/02/part-1-chapter-6.html

Heaven