The "Unbalanced" Balance

(Graphic Visualisation)

Image of Libra

Symbol of Libra

(From the graphic visualisation) The stars in the constellation Libra can be connected more fully, graphically showing a balance.
The star beta Librae, of third magnitude, represents the top of the balance. The stars gamma Librae and alpha Librae represent the balance beam: alpha Librae being of third magnitude as well.
The stars upsilon Librae and tau Librae represent the left plate of the balance, whereas the star sigma Librae represents the right plate of the balance. All three of these stars are of the third magnitude.

(From Wikipedia)

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According to Chinese philosophy, yin and yang are two opposing and counterbalancing forces in the universe. This symbol represents them. Yin is the dark half and yang the bright half, but neither could exist without the other.

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I have thought of a (an add-on) principle precedent of my Balance principle.

(This entry is going to be a little bit long and informative, so for the people who love summary, you may want to skip this entry. This is just a conundrum, I have been observing and asking. Some people may want to chide me for thinking something that is meaningless to our normal lifestyle. Nonetheless, since I have thought of it, I might as well discover the meaning behind it ... Great thinkings and notions come from something that is small ... For those who want to go on, enjoy!)

The "Unbalanced" Balance

Talking about "Balance", the immediate thought will be 50-50, in terms of 100%. Right can never penetrate Left, and vice-versa. This may be true, in Mathematics form, that is in theory. In Chinese, there is Yin and Yang, which also talk about the harmonious balance, and thus lay the foundation of "Tao" teachings (Or the Religion Taoism), Martial Arts and "Fengshui" or Chinese geomancy. In constellations, Libra is symbolised as a weighing balance. And therefore in many aspects, Libra is often portrayed as a balance of both sides, and also a vintage symbol of balance other than the "Yin and Yang". Concept of balance is also in I Ching (易经) that has the principles of the (1) dynamic balance of opposites, (2) the evolution of events as a process, and (3) acceptance of the inevitability of change. (Read to find out more on I Ching, an example and principles of Ancient Chinese Wisdom)

It is also believed that having a balance lifestyle is good for health.

In Star Wars, about good verus evil, and Jedi versus Sith, only a balance "force" will bring peace to the universe.

WHy are there 2 sexes, so as to act as a balancing act? Each sperms and ova will bear half the responsibility of gene pools (In this case, chromosomes), and thereby allowing a stable changes and reproduction. One more chromosome from either sides, will dismantle the balance when fusion occurs and give a mutation like Down's Syndrome. (A nebulous account - Find out the biology of reproduction and genes to know more)

However, people have even conceived that there is some "unbalance" in the nature. Why are the burden of baby's birth not equally shared among the sexes but only to the female? Of course, for asexual type, there is a "balance"'s existence in the form of replication and mitosis from one divided into two.

And in the world by many definitions, descriptions, observations and illustrations,by balancing, you will achieve a harmony and therefore a sure good endings.

There are enough of examples as fully illustrated in "Yin and Yang" that speaks of our lives and surroundings plus day to day applications. There are also many books written on Yin and Yang, via Balancing.

There are also numerous "Balancing" phenomenon you can see around you.

So, the conjecture is that by balancing, everything in the world will be positive. Is this true? And what exactly do we mean by balancing?

It is not really true, that by balancing, everything will be good. For instance, for the Big Bang theory. In Science, there is a matter, and thereby anti-matter. Particles and thereby anti-particles. So as, electrons and positrons. Technically, matter and antimatter do not really fuse, they simply annihilate each other and leave behind energy usually in the form of two photons (particles of light). [Fusion is the process where two particles of matter combine to form a single larger unit. However, the word "fuse" is used freely when depicting about the collisions between particles].

[There is considerable speculation both in science and science fiction as to why the observable universe is apparently almost entirely matter, whether other places are almost entirely antimatter instead, and what might be possible if antimatter could be harnessed, but at this time the apparent asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the great unsolved problems in physics. Possible processes by which it came about are explored in more detail under baryogenesis. ](This text is taken from the wikipedia)

If the number of anti-matter and matter will to be equal, so how do we exist? As we all know today, all of us are made of matter. So, we are lucky that somehow from the "Big-Bang", the asymmetry amount of matter and anti-matter which is tilted to the favour of the matter side, somehow creates the planets and the galaxy. The "UNBALANCE" act of the universe has somehow do good to create us.

[But assuming large zones of antimatter exist, there must be some boundary where antimatter atoms from the antimatter galaxies or stars will come into contact with normal atoms. In those regions a powerful flux of gamma rays would be produced. This has never been observed despite deployment of very sensitive instruments in space to detect them.
It is now thought that symmetry was broken in the early universe during a period of baryogenesis, when matter-antimatter symmetry was violated. Standard Big Bang cosmology tells us that the universe initially contained equal amounts of matter and antimatter: however particles and antiparticles evolved slightly differently. It was found that a particular heavy unstable particle, which is its own antiparticle, decays slightly more often to positrons (e+) than to electrons (e−). How this accounts for the preponderance of matter over antimatter has not been completely explained. The Standard Model of particle physics does have a way of accommodating a difference between the evolution of matter and antimatter, but it falls short of explaining the net excess of matter in the universe by about 10 orders of magnitude.] (Texts taken from wikipedia)

Even some Physicists have believed that there MUST be a balance of matter and anti-matter in universe, and therefore some has proposed a theory on anti-matter regions in universe, or simply even anti-universe. When the so-called "excess" matter come into contact with the anti-matters in the anti-universe, then annihilation will occur, and radiation like gamma-rays will be produced. That is to say, the matter we can see and contact for our galaxy, are actually the universe that is luckily separated from the anti-universe. Nonetheless, there is already the "existence" of anti-universe in science fiction.

[Antimatter is the ultimate energy source. It releases energy with 100% efficiency (nuclear fission is 1.5% efficient.) Antimatter is 100,000 times more powerful than rocket fuel. A single gram contains the energy of a 20 kiloton atomic bomb--the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In addition to being highly explosive, antimatter is extremely unstable and ignites when it comes in contact with anything...even air. It can only be stored by suspending it in an electromagnetic field inside a vacuum canister. If the field fails and the antimatter falls, the result is a "perfect" matter/antimatter conversion, which physicists aptly call "annihilation."]

Other than the complex example of the "unbalance" act of the universe between the matter and anti-matter (Actually it is more complicated ...), there is many other pervalent examples that can be shown in the way of unbalance.

For instance our heart. Generally, our hearts are always situated slightly to the left in our body. Most of the animals' hearts are mostly tilted to left. There are of course some strange anomalies of heart being tilted slightly to right instead of left. No matter what side it is, it is a fact that our hearts will never be exactly equal in between our lungs. Why? To follow the principle of balance, and to get the "correct" balance in nature, why is heart not at the centre? There are of course reasons for left ventricular muscles is bigger than the right and to pump blood efficiently to arteries due to the high pressure caused by the aortic arch.

The Unbalance Balance principle is just a phenomenon that I observed in our normal life. You will realise the anormalties in the world will be that there can never be a perfect balance. In fact, to many people, a perfect balance is actually a "tilted" balance figuratively.

One thing to note, something in the world that is perceived to be balance may not seem to be balance to another person. This is due to the fact that for any phenomenon in the world, we are always comparing in different manners and looking at different points of view. Unless, there is absolute such as numbers, like 22 is discerned by some people to be a "balance" number as there are two, and both two at left and right. However, my note will be that there is an irony that even the acknowledged absolutes can be treated philosophically nonetheless.

I have just inputted something I have thought of. They are philosophy, Science and even our normal day-to-day life. I am afraid that they are still plenty of relevant examples to prove or disprove Balance is the most perfect harmonious and significant effect in our lives. At the end of the day, it is still what you think that matters for this issue of "Balancing" act. "Balance" may be the sycronym for "Perfect" to many people. Though I doubt it, there is no right or wrong in this matter as long as there is no conclusive debates.

But it is rather peculiar to note that there is always exceptions in the world, no matter how perfect a pattern want to be.

(As this is a food for thought, as long as there are new things and perspectives, there will always be additions to be done. So, this entry is subjected to constant modifications ...)

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Fast comments ... (Done on 22/05/2006, Mon, 2240hs)

I have read through and revise all my former blogs as done before. As usual, I am amazed of my capability to write out and gain many insights for the short Two and a Half Year. Even some of the words I have used gracefully, have been forgotten of their meanings both literally and figuratively ... Maybe "Inspiration really brings out the best at that moment ...". I will discuss further about inspirations and what I have come to a sudden realisation about inspirations during the recent Sec4 Chalet gatherings I have gone ... When I have the time ... I will also talked about the newly "Unbalanced" Balance principle which I have dwelled upon recently ...

[One thing to note while reading all my blogs, is the fact that I have always have typo,grammar and structural error. I realise it will be an immense, mega project just to edit all the typo errors. As for the grammar and structural error, I will have to let it be. Hai~~ It seems I am not yet even a near to perfect person, but still, it is this that makes me ... "William" ... Hahaha .... ]

By the way, I still remember there are some "promises" that I have made. Such as the "key phrases" I have created in my current work place. I will add on all the "key phrases" after I have research and explored on the "Unbalanced" Balance principle.