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Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

Chapter 2. Living matter: how life arose in space

The origin of life on Earth has always been an enigma. Since ancient times,
philosophers and scientists have sought to find the answer. Myriad theories and
hypotheses emerged about the nature of living matter, all of them based on postulates
without empirical proof.

More and more assumptions were brought forth to sustain the viability of these
theories. Currently all our existing "scientific" theories are based on dozens and
sometimes hundreds of postulates. Modern physics exemplifies this. Information

which mankind amassed by the end of the twentieth century renders these theories
completely inconsistent.

Discoveries in the field of nuclear physics, divulged in the last quarter of the
twentieth century, undermined the bedrock of modern physics. Its fundamental law
— the Law of Conservation of Matter — was seemingly nullified by the
experimental findings of modern physicists. The essence of this postulate is that
matter can neither be created nor destroyed.

When applied to particle synthesis occurring in the course of a nuclear reaction,
the law may be expressed as follows:

m1 + m2 ≥ m3 (1)
According to this, the particles' mass, generated by the synthesis, should be
equal to or less than the total mass of particles from which it was created. Nuclear
physicists are still reeling from the shock of such experimental results.

Their dilemma is "merely" the fact that, in some experiments, the mass of

particles generated sometimes greatly exceeds the mass of particles from which it
was created:
m1 + m2 << m3 (2)
And experiments on real instruments yield empirical results that seem fantastic:
matter appears to arise from nowhere! And such results deviate from the Law far
beyond the permissible range of probability — despite the high degree of

instrumental accuracy (allowable error of 5%).

Therefore, in cases where the results obtained differ markedly from the expected
results, instrumental error is of no significance. The fact is that scientists have no
explanation whatsoever for the above dilemma and cannot possibly come up
with one. The phenomena they observed visually or instrumentally are indeed
manifestations of the real laws of nature. But true natural law evolves and
operates at microcosmic and macrocosmic levels.

Everything that touches man in his lifetime lies between microcosm and
macrocosm. So when man, aided by instruments, got his first glimpse of the

microcosmic world, he was empowered

— for the first time — to make direct contact with nature's laws rather than just
their manifestation. Matter did not appear out of nowhere. The explanation is at
once far more simple and far more complicated than that. What man knows about
matter and what he regards as a complete and ab-solute body of knowledge is
merely a fraction of what is real.

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