Month: May 2022

What I was most interested in (mystery & wonder) when I was in junior high school, were invisible things, electricity, radio waves, and magnets. The universe, matter, and human beings are composed of atoms, and there are many spaces between atoms, so there is no reality. What uses these atoms to shape and control this world? What is a human? What controls humans?

What is self (consciousness)? What is the inner man?

Is there a limit to the universe, what is happening outside the universe, and is there another universe?
This made me emotionally unstable. There cannot be anything in front of you where there is nothing.

Outside where you are now, is not there anything?

Perhaps this universe is part of any material, and we are like its atoms.

I was thinking about that, and I felt like I was talking about something stupid without listening to anyone. The only one who was a priest of a temple called Meigetsu-in, a distant relative, who was a science teacher (forgot his name) listened to me, so I often visited the temple to talk about space, human-being, etc.

When I heard about the Big Bang at school, I immediately felt weird. It was a space that exploded and expanded into the universe. It’s a lie, an explosion can’t happen in the absence of anything. I do not think anyone thinks it’s strange. I didn’t believe it and still don’t believe it even now.

I thought more scared about the reality of myself where I am in a world of nothing.
Now I am feeling the same and try not to think about it. When thinking further, I try to have the concept of God (the God of Creation) in my mind

One day, when I found a space book in the library and read it, the theory that the universe was formed by exploding of the fluctuation of atoms, so what is the fluctuation, where is it, and why is it?
There is something (fluctuation) where there is nothing. Mysterious and scary. It is a logical failure.
However, he concluded that the universe is nothing and that the author would have to think about the existence of God.

Today, many scientists advocate that the universe was born by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. (The big bang theory)
It is an estimate of the result of the observation of the universe, but it cannot be seen further that an initial period.
But several scientists are starting to say it’s weird and theoretically should not happen.
They say nothing comes from nothing. I began to think that it was created by the God.
Now, science has entered the realm of quantum mechanics, and research has materialized. We are approaching the realm of God.

Then how do we imagine the God?

Since it is impossible to think of the Creator, it seems that the only way to think about it is to trace from this universe and us human beings who were created. Can we get there by examining ourselves, or is it in us and integrated?

What was the god’s purpose of creating this universe?

It also depicts in the Old Testament Genesis (Day 1-7).

Genesis 1
Day 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Day2. Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep.
　　God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

What was there before day 1?

I don’t think human’s science can find the truth of the universe forever.
How does an extraterrestrial, more evolving inhabitant understand this universe?
If I meet one by some chance, I hope to learn from the one the truth of the universe.

To be continued..

Eiichi Shibusawa, who has many titles, is from the Fukaya city in Saitama Prefecture. The two in three great men from Saitama Prefecture, Ginko Hagino, and Hanawa Hokiichi were introduced by my Japanese blog, and I visited the Eiichi Shibusawa Memorial Hall (Hachiki Public Hall, which opened on November 11, 1995). I do not have enough time and paper to introduce him in all, so I would like to write about my visit and what I cannot understand until I see it.

Once, I visited Fukaya City, at a time of a local movie fan who bought a store of a former bank was playing a film, and when I went to care for a Thai who came to Japan for computer training in Saitama Prefecture.

The specialty product of Fukaya City is Fukaya green onion. However, Shibusawa Eiichi is revered as a great man and is proud of Fukaya, Saitama, and Japan. The location of the Tomioka Silk Mill, which has become a World Heritage Site, is in Tomioka City, Gunma Prefecture, but Eiichi Shibusawa has been introduced to know raw silk and indigo dyeing and supported it, a brick manufacturing company has also been established, which is necessary for the factory building with him.

In 2024, the reason the portrait changes of Yukichi Fukuzawa on the 10,000-yen note was deciding to replace with Eiichi Shibusawa was “the father of the modern Japanese economy,” “the theory of moral economy,” and “the last 15th shogun of the Edo period, Yoshinobu Tokugawa.” Above is because they have a track record of “encounters” and “efforts in welfare and education other than the economy.” It is not just a god of management of only one company (involved in about five hundred companies), but this is saying that his skill is in the modernization of the Meiji era, so he is supported by many people and is suitable for becoming the face of the world.

“Modern Japanese Father Eiichi Shibusawa” (published by Fukaya City) is a leaflet printed in March 2021 before the NHK TV dramatized him, but it is well organized.

1. Father of the modern Japanese economy 2.The starting point of businessman 3. From the Joint Staff to the shogun’s vassal 4. Dispatched to Europe 5. From the government to the business world 6. The heart of mercy Social welfare activities 7. Efforts for international goodwill 8. The Analects Village 9. Eiichi and Tomioka Thread Mill 10. Origin of Eiichi’s “Seien” 11. Eiichi, Brick and Fukaya City 12. Boiled noodle with ｗelsh onion* 13. Thirteen items of Eiichi Shibusawa that are currently attracting attention.
Some titles are not understandable without reading, but they are almost covered. There were many signboards in the city, making the most of Eiichi Shibusawa in promoting tourism in Fukaya.

* I have never eaten Niboutou (boiled noodle with onion). However, Fukaya’s local food variety, a soy sauce-flavored noodle dish with plenty of vegetables such as green onions, radishes, and carrots in handmade flat noodles, is introduced in the pamphlet. There are many restaurants in the city with agricultural products sales offices in the suburbs, and the well-known shops I searched for in anticipation of Japanese buckwheat used Shinshu buckwheat flour.

*There are people who have discovered and invented Japan, the world, and everything from many towns and villages, not just Saitama Prefecture. The background for the episode will be known in future research and history. However, some cases do not seem to be great just because they appear in the media and textbooks. Just in case.