Water & Energy

They are thoughts that I don’t even want to acknowledge, not even here.

So instead I will talk about something else.

I can see the tap, drip, drip, drip.
Not that long ago I would have gotten up to turn the tap off, because it was wasting water.
Not all that long ago, it was truly a miracle if it rained.

When I think about water, I think about pollution.
I think about all the polluted water, water that we can’t use anymore because it’s spoiled.
Did you know that there is a certain amount of water in the world?
And there has been that amount since the day of the big bang, or since God created the earth, whatever you want to believe in. The amount of water here has never changed, and never will be changed.

Matter cannot be created or destroyed.

The water is just constantly going around in a circle; evaporation, condensation, precipitation; it’s a constant cycle, one we all learnt in grade four.

So what happens when we start making some of this water unusable? When we dirty it so much and add so many oils to it that it can no longer be evaporated and used again in the cycle? Effectively we are “destroying” the amount of water on the earth. Because unusable water is no use to anyone, or anything.

There is another thing that there is only a certain amount of on this earth.
Energy.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

In the beginning, God only gave us so many thousands of millions of Joules to use and he said, “Use them how you will. But I will never give you the power to either create more, or destroy the ones you already have.”

I wonder how many other things there are in the world of which there is only a certain amount.
I guess in the physical world, there is no such thing as infinity.
Maybe there is no such thing as infinity, full stop.

Just because we haven’t found the end of something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

They say that there is infinity amount of decimal places in pi.
Really?
Or is it just that we haven’t yet found the end?

Just because a person says something is so, doesn’t mean it is.
Who is a human, to propose all of these precise laws about the world?
The more we try to understand, the more we have to understand.

If everything has a beginning and an end, then when is ours?
The more we use everything up, the less time we have to live.