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In my world, a Petri dish is a circular container with a lock, in the container you will have a nutrient gel.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>With the tip of a rod you will streak the surface of the gel, incubating it with micro organisms.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Then either you do nothing and watch the bacteria populations grow, or you add patches of paper that have been soaked into antibiotics;</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The microbe population will increase and increase; some will die when reaching the fringe of the antibiotics.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Two microbe populations will meet and then they will get at war, one will win or they both will die.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Then the pressure on the population is going to be too high, food is going to be scarce.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The microbes are going to mutate.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Some microbes will survive</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Some will die.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>This story has three meanings.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>At the end of the experiment, all the Petri dishes used by the students will be collected and passed through the steam cleaning machine. All microbes will die. The microbes thought that the purpose of their life was to survive, while in fact the purpose of their life was to be observed.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As students, we assume that the microbes have no feelings, no wants, no love, no pain, yet at the same time, the whole point of the Petri dish experiment is to demonstrate that the microbes have an urge to live and grow, whatever the cost.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>While we do not think about it, we do assume that the microbes are totally unable to imagine, if they can imagine anything, a superior human being, the student who is manipulating the experiment. The microbes are even totally unable to imagine such things as space and time. What about ourselves, are they dimensions beyond our understanding?</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There is nothing new in looking at our life on Earth and comparing it with the life of micro organisms in a Petri Dish.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We humans have something that makes us different; we are able to understand that there are things that we do not understand. For instance the classical question, what was there the day before Universe was created? As the Belgian Scientist Lemaire put it, "what was there before the day that had no yesterday?"</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>As humans we understand that the measurements we use to make our life practical, the distance to school is 5 miles, it takes 30 minutes to get to school, are just practical units which satisfy the demands of our brain. In reality, if there is anything such as reality, it could be meaningless.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>So welcome to the Glub World;</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>