The meaning of numbers in life project. Design and research work "the meaning of numbers in our lives"

The investigator was a typical, not the first freshman campaigner, with fifteen years of service, thanks from the head of the police department, an anniversary medal and the prospect of receiving the rank of major upon retirement. He didn't grab stars from the sky. He earned them hard.

“Twelve o’clock,” the investigator sighed, looking at his watch.

He turned off the lamp, unbuttoned the top buttons on his tunic and tiredly leaned back in his chair.

Maybe we can have some tea?

He pulled it out from under the table, put his briefcase on his knees, and pulled out a thermos and a bag of sandwiches.

My wife did,” he said.

And he began to chew his sandwich, looking blankly somewhere in the corner. He chewed long and carefully. As if the right job did.

Then he put the thermos away, put the empty bag in his pocket, brushed the crumbs into his palm, and with a sigh, pulled the protocol towards him.

He didn’t want to interrogate anyone, he wanted to go home to his wife.

Let's start from the beginning. State your last name, first name, patronymic.

He asked as he ate, chewing the same question a hundred times.

Evsyukhov Semyon Petrovich.

The investigator opened the passport. Read:

Evsyukhov... Semyon... Petrovich. Born in the city of Bryansk in one thousand nine hundred and eighty…. The passport was issued by the Central Department of Internal Affairs on November tenth, nineteen hundred...

Are you sure?

Well, of course!

The investigator took out some piece of paper from the table.

We sent a request to the place where the passport was issued, and do you know what they answered?

A passport in the name of citizen Semyon Petrovich Evsyukhov was not issued by the Central Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Bryansk and was not issued to citizen Evsyukhov. Then where did you get it from?

But I received it from the Central District police!..

The investigator did not get irritated, did not raise his tone, he continued to chew on the interrogation.

Who were your parents, where did they live, what did they do?

Father, Evsyukhov Petr Mikhailovich, lived...

He didn't live there. And it didn't work. And it is generally unknown where he lived. We have made relevant inquiries...

They work fast!

Evsyukhov Petr Mikhailovich is not listed at the address you indicated, he was never registered, he did not rent a living space, the neighbors have not heard anything about him.

The investigator carefully closed the passport and placed it on the table.

State your real last name, first name, patronymic...

* * *

Cadet Solomatin!

Although in fact not Solomatin. And he was never Solomatin. But what does it matter?

To the simulator!

The simulator was made in life size human mannequin. Or, as the cadets called him among themselves, “Uncle Vasya.” Every day “Uncle Vasya” was dressed in different clothes - jackets, T-shirts, tailcoats, dressing gowns, sheepskin coats... Which had pockets. There are many pockets - patch pockets, internal pockets, secret pockets, with clasps, Velcro, zippers... There was a wallet in the pockets. Which had to be pulled out of that pocket. Unnoticeable to the mannequin.

Which is easier said than done. Because “Uncle Vasya” was not a hanger, but a sophisticated sensory simulator, like a spaceship. Two hundred sensors hidden under a plastic “skin” responded to any micro-shock. They responded with a siren and a warning in the record book.

Get started.

The palm, cupped, gently slid into the pocket, the pads of the fingers felt the wallet, pulling it up. But... the siren roared treacherously, and the mannequin’s eyes flashed red.

Again.

And the siren blared again.

More. Siren…

Yes, it's just broken!

Who's broken?

Trainer!

Do you think so?

The instructor approached the dummy and immediately, without looking at the pocket, put his hand into it.

Siren was silent.

And all because you are afraid. You are afraid and tense. And you strain your hand. It loses elasticity, becomes woody, becomes rough and clumsy. You might as well poke around in someone else's pocket with a poker.

Relax and relax your muscles. And then your fingers will easily “drip” into your pocket. It's clear?

That's right!

Repeat the exercise...

* * *

“I’m tired of talking to you,” the investigator admitted. - You deny obvious things. You say that you received a passport in Bryansk, although you didn’t. And what’s surprising is that they didn’t receive it anywhere. Nowhere in the territory of the former Soviet Union. You did not receive this passport, although you have it. Although here he is!

The investigator flipped through the passport again.

Prints, paintings, impressions... Amazing!.. Where did you get it?

I received it from the internal affairs department...

Stop it. This is finally stupid. Two o'clock in the morning! You want to sleep. And I want to sleep. Maybe we won't torture each other? Tell the truth. We will still recognize her. Where did you get your passport from? What's your name?

Okay, I'll tell you. My last name is not Evsyukhov.

The investigator quickly pulled the protocol towards him.

My last name is Solomatin.

Surname?

Ivanovich...

Let Solomatin be as he once was. This way it’s easier not to get lost and not get confused in the details.

Let there be Solomatin and his legend. It will take them at least a week to verify the new information. And during this time he will come up with something else. And then again... And he will forget what should be forgotten. Moreover, I almost forgot...

* * *

He remembered his first life poorly. I remembered that I lived in a small town in the North-West of Russia. He lived like everyone else - he went to school, went on forays into the forest, looked after girls... and also played sports. I studied fanatically, to the point of stupor. Because I wanted to become a champion.

Pythagoras said: “All things can be represented in the form of numbers.” For the ancients, numbers personified the realm of the secret. They were symbols of harmony divine world. Ancient people believed that our lives are controlled by numbers. Especially great value was given to the date of birth of a person, which determined him life path. After all, these digital combinations are nothing more than a code of secret secret information, which, when correct decoding allows you to predict human destiny.

If you want to lift the veil on the mystery of your life, use the ancient knowledge of the law of numbers - numerology. According to the law of numerology, the numbers included in the date of birth are added until they give a single digit number.

1

If you were born on the 1st, 10th, 19th or 28th of any month, this means that your life is ruled by the Sun. you are kind and open man. But sometimes too demanding. Sometimes you lack love, attention and care.

The mystical meaning of the number 1 is the higher mind, or cosmos. Number 1 means the highest integrity, unity.

The main years in your life are 19, 28, 37, 46 and 55.

2

Number 2 people are all those born on the 2nd, 11th, 20th or 29th. These are energetic and active individuals. Only excessive self-criticism and the habit of delving into oneself hinder progress towards success.

If you learn to love yourself with all your shortcomings and live in harmony, you will achieve considerable success, especially at 20, 29, 38, 47, 56 and 65 years of life.

3

“C” students include all those born on the 3rd, 12th, 21st or 30th of any month. Troika - favorite number humanity. 3 - symbol of soul, unity (connection between past, present and future). It also means the highest integrity to which the visible material world strives.

A person of three always relies only on himself, never relying on the help of friends and relatives.

Important years in his life are 12, 21, 30, 39, 48 and 57.

4

Four person - born on the 4th, 13th, 22nd or 31st. Four is an image of cosmic integrity, the four elements that move the world. This mystical meaning numbers also influence a person’s ability to perceive outside world. People number 4 are creative, original individuals, they are constantly overwhelmed with some ideas.

The most important years of life are the 13th, 22nd, 31st, 40th, 49th and 58th.

5

Five is the number of uncertainty, risk, impermanence and at the same time - happiness, completeness and joy of being. People born on the 5th, 14th or 23rd have clear goals and beliefs. They almost never hide their opinions and extremely rarely experience fear of opponents and competitors. They are hardworking, do not spare themselves, and therefore often overstrain their nervous system.

The main years of life are 14, 23, 32, 41, 50 and 59.

6

The planet that rules people born on the 6th, 15th or 24th of any month is Venus. She bestows on her “wards” beauty and an active, artistic, passionate nature.

Of the numbers 1 to 9, number 6 is the luckiest. The number 6 is unique in that it is common to both odd and even numbers: it consists of three twos and two threes. This is the number of beauty and harmony.

Important years in the life of “sixes” are 15, 24, 33, 42, 51 and 60.

7

Seven is no less successful number. This is the number of mystery and mystical knowledge. And in Hindu mysticism, 7 is a symbol of health. It endows people born on the 7th, 16th or 25th with wisdom, sensitivity, and emotionality. By nature, they are leaders and energetic, strong personalities.

The most important years- 7, 16, 25, 34, 43, 52 and 61st.

8

This is the most stable number: it is divided into two parts, forming two stable fours, each of which in turn is divided into two, forming twos, which symbolizes world balance. 8 is the number of success and material well-being. Those born on the 8th, 17th or 26th are friendly, non-conflict, active, hardworking people.

The most important years of life are the 17th, 26th, 35th, 44th, 53rd and 62nd.

9

The planet that rules people born on the 9th, 18th, 27th of any month is Mars. It gives a person a clear sense of purpose, a sense of duty, order and discipline, courage and confidence. 9 is the largest of prime numbers. It brings wealth and fame to those born on the 9th, 18th or 27th.

The main years in their lives are 18, 27, 36, 45, 54 and 63.

1. When a person smiles, 17 muscles “work.”

2. The surface of the lungs is about 100 square meters.

3. Human DNA contains about 80,000 genes.

4. Men are considered dwarfs if their height is below 130 cm, women - below 120 cm.

5. Leukocytes live in the human body for 2-4 days, and red blood cells - 3-4 months.

6. Each human finger bends approximately 25 million times during a lifetime.

7. The size of a person’s heart is approximately equal to the size of his fist. The weight of an adult human heart is 220-260 g.

8. In the composition human body includes only 4 minerals: apatite, aragonite, calcite and cristobalite.

9. Human brain generates more electrical impulses per day than all the phones in the world combined.

10. The phenomenon in which a person loses the ability to see due to strong light is called “snow blindness.”

11. Total weight bacteria living in the human body is 2 kilograms.

12. In the human brain, 100,000 chemical reactions occur in one second.

13. The surface area of ​​human lungs is approximately equal to the area of ​​a tennis court.

14. From the moment of birth, there are already 14 billion cells in the human brain.

15. During life, the human small intestine is about 2.5 meters long.

16. A person has approximately 2 million sweat glands. The average adult loses 540 calories with every liter of sweat. Men sweat about 40% more than women.

17. The right lung of a person holds more air than the left.

18. An adult takes approximately 23,000 breaths (and exhalations) per day.

19. The human eye is capable of distinguishing 10,000,000 shades of color.

20. There are about 40,000 bacteria in the human mouth.

21. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

22. There are 33 or 34 vertebrae in the human spine.

23. Women blink about 2 times more often than men.

25. There are about 2000 taste buds in the human body.

26. The human body contains the same amount of fat as is needed to produce 7 bars of soap.

27. Nerve impulses in human body moving at a speed of approximately 90 meters per second.

28. Human hair is about 5000 times thicker than soap film.

29. 36,800,000 - the number of heartbeats in a person in one year.

30. Human gastric juice contains 0.4% hydrochloric acid (HCl).

31. Almost half of all human bones are in the wrists and feet.

32. People with blue eyes more sensitive to pain than everyone else.

33. Fingernails grow about 4 times faster than toenails.

34. During a lifetime, a person’s skin changes approximately 1000 times.

35. There are more than 100 different viruses that cause a runny nose.

36. You can lose 150 calories per hour by hitting your head against a wall.

37. There are about 75 kilometers (!) of nerves in the body of an adult.

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Sergei Kapitsa, a well-known Russian popularizer of science and author of a model of the numerical growth of humanity, talks about why history is accelerating all the time, whether we are facing a demographic catastrophe, and how the world will change within the lifetime of this generation.

Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa

Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa Kapitsa, demographic transition, demography, overpopulation of the planet
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Source: scientificrussia.ru

Soviet and Russian physicist, educator, TV presenter, editor-in-chief magazine "In the World of Science", vice-president of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Since 1973, he has continuously hosted the popular science television program “Obvious - Incredible.” Son of the laureate Nobel Prize Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa.
This is one of the last articles by S. P. Kapitsa with answers to many questions of our time.

After the collapse of science in our country, I was forced to spend a year abroad - in Cambridge, where I was born. There I was attached to Darwin College; it is part of Trinity College, of which my father was once a member. The college deals primarily with overseas scientists. I was given a small scholarship, which supported me, and we lived in a house that my father had built. It was there, through a completely inexplicable coincidence, that I stumbled upon the problem of population growth.
I had previously dealt with global problems of peace and balance - those that forced us to change our point of view on war with the advent of an absolute weapon that can destroy all problems at once, although it is not able to solve them. But of all global problems in fact, the main thing is the number of people who live on Earth. How many are there, where are they being driven? This is the central problem in relation to everything else, and at the same time it has been the least addressed.
This is not to say that no one has thought about this before. People have always worried about how many there are. Plato calculated how many families should live in an ideal city, and he came up with about five thousand. That's how it was visible world for Plato – the population of poleis Ancient Greece numbered in the tens of thousands of people. The rest of the world was empty - it simply did not exist as a real arena of action.
Such limited interests, oddly enough, existed even fifteen years ago, when I began to study the problem of population. It was not customary to discuss the problems of demography of all humanity: just as in a decent society one does not talk about sex, so in a good scientific society one was not supposed to talk about demography. It seemed to me that we needed to start with humanity as a whole, but such a subject could not even be discussed. Demographics developed from smaller to larger: from a city, a country to the world as a whole. There was the demography of Moscow, the demography of England, the demography of China. How to study the world when scientists can barely cope with the regions of one country? To get to the central problem, we had to overcome a lot of what the British call conventional wisdom, that is, generally accepted dogmas.
But, of course, I was far from the first in this area. The great Leonhard Euler, who worked in various fields of physics and mathematics, wrote the main equations of demography back in the 18th century, which are still used today. And among the general public, the name of another founder of demography, Thomas Malthus, is best known.
Malthus was a curious figure. He graduated from the Faculty of Theology, but was very well prepared mathematically: he came ninth in the Cambridge mathematics competition. If Soviet Marxists and modern social scientists knew mathematics at the level of the ninth rank of a university, I would calm down and believe that they are sufficiently equipped mathematically. I was in Malthus's office in Cambridge and saw Euler's books there with his pencil notes - it is clear that he was completely in control of the mathematical apparatus of his time.
Malthus's theory is quite harmonious, but built on incorrect premises. He assumed that the number of people grows exponentially (that is, the growth rate is higher, the higher the more people already lives on the land, giving birth and raising children), but growth is limited by the availability of resources, such as food.
Exponential growth until resources are exhausted is the dynamic we see in most living things. This is how even microbes grow in nutrient broth. But the fact is that we are not microbes.
People are not animals

Aristotle said that the main difference between man and animal is that he wants to know. But to notice how much we differ from animals, there is no need to get into our heads: it’s enough just to count how many of us there are. All creatures on Earth, from mice to elephants, are subject to a relationship: the greater the body mass, the fewer individuals. There are few elephants, many mice. Weighing about a hundred kilograms, there must be hundreds of thousands of us. Now in Russia there are one hundred thousand wolves, one hundred thousand wild boars. Such species exist in balance with nature. And man is a hundred thousand times more numerous! Despite the fact that biologically we are very similar to large monkeys, wolves or bears.
IN social sciences few exact numbers. Perhaps the population of the country is the only thing that is unconditionally known. When I was a boy, I was taught at school that there are two billion people on Earth. Now it’s seven billion. We have experienced such growth in the span of one generation. We can roughly say how many people lived at the time of the birth of Christ - about one hundred million. Paleoanthropologists estimate the population of Paleolithic people to be about one hundred thousand—exactly what we are supposed to have based on body mass. But since then growth has begun: barely noticeable at first, then faster and faster, these days explosive. Never before has humanity grown so rapidly.
Even before the war, Scottish demographer Paul Mackendrick proposed a formula for human growth. And this growth turned out to be not exponential, but hyperbolic - very slow at the beginning and quickly accelerating at the end. According to his formula, in 2030 the human population should tend to infinity, but this is obvious absurdity: people are biologically incapable of giving birth to an infinite number of children in a finite time. Much more importantly, such a formula perfectly describes the growth of humanity in the past. This means that the growth rate has always been proportional not to the number of people living on earth, but to the square of this number.
Physicists and chemists know what such a dependence means: it is a “second-order reaction,” where the speed of the process depends not on the number of participants, but on the number of interactions between them. When something is proportional "en-squared", it is a collective phenomenon. This is, for example, a nuclear chain reaction in atomic bomb. If every member of the Snob community writes a comment to everyone else, then total number comments will be proportional to the square of the number of participants. The square of the number of people is the number of connections between them, a measure of the complexity of the “humanity” system. The greater the complexity, the faster the growth.
No man is an island: we do not live and die alone. We reproduce and eat, differing little in this from animals, but the qualitative difference is that we exchange knowledge. We pass them on by inheritance, we pass them on horizontally - in universities and schools. Therefore, our development dynamics are different. We are not just fruitful and multiplying: we are making progress. This progress is quite difficult to measure numerically, but, for example, energy production and consumption can be a good criterion. And the data show that energy consumption is also proportional to the square of the number of people, that is, the energy consumption of each person is higher, the larger the population of the Earth (as if every contemporary, from Papuans to Aleuts, shares energy with you. - Ed.).
Our development lies in knowledge - this is the main resource of humanity. Therefore, to say that our growth is limited by the depletion of resources is a very crude formulation of the question. In the absence of disciplined thinking, many different horror stories appear. For example, a couple of decades ago there was serious talk about the depletion of silver reserves, which is used to make film: supposedly in India, in Bollywood, so many films are being made that soon all the silver on earth will go into the emulsion of these films. This might have been the case, but then magnetic recording was invented, which does not require silver at all. Such assessments, the fruit of speculation and ringing phrases designed to capture the imagination, serve only a propaganda and alarmist function.
There is enough food for everyone in the world - we discussed this issue in detail at the Club of Rome, comparing the food resources of India and Argentina. Argentina is a third smaller in area than India, but India has forty times the population. On the other hand, Argentina produces so much food that it could feed the whole world, not just India, if it worked hard enough. It's not a lack of resources, but their distribution. Someone seemed to joke that under socialism there would be a shortage of sand in the Sahara; it is not a question of the amount of sand, but of its distribution. Inequality between individuals and nations has always existed, but as growth processes accelerate, inequality increases: balancing processes simply do not have time to work. This is a serious problem for the modern economy, but history teaches that in the past humanity solved similar problems - unevenness was leveled out in such a way that on the scale of humanity the general law of development remained unchanged.
The hyperbolic law of human growth has demonstrated remarkable stability throughout history. IN medieval Europe Plague epidemics claimed up to three-quarters of the population in some countries. There are actually dips in the growth curve in these places, but after a century the numbers return to their previous dynamics, as if nothing had happened.
The greatest shock experienced by humanity was the First and Second World Wars. If we compare real demographic data with what the model predicts, it turns out that the total loss of humanity from the two wars is about two hundred and fifty million - three times more than any estimates by historians. The Earth's population has deviated from the equilibrium value by eight percent. But then, over several decades, the curve steadily returns to its previous trajectory. “Global Parent” has proven resilient despite the terrible disaster that affected most countries of the world.
The connection of times has broken down

In history lessons, many schoolchildren are perplexed: why do historical periods become shorter and shorter over time? The Upper Paleolithic lasted about a million years, leaving only half a million for the rest of human history. The Middle Ages are a thousand years old, only five hundred remain. From the Upper Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, history seems to have accelerated a thousand times.
This phenomenon is well known to historians and philosophers. Historical periodization does not follow astronomical time, which flows uniformly and independently of human history, but the proper time of the system. Time itself follows the same relationship as energy consumption or population growth: it flows faster the higher the complexity of our system, that is, the more people live on Earth.
When I began this work, I did not imagine that my model would logically entail a periodization of history from the Paleolithic to the present day. If we assume that history is measured not by the revolutions of the Earth around the Sun, but by the lives lived human lives, shortening historical periods are instantly explained. The Paleolithic lasted a million years, but the number of our ancestors was then only about one hundred thousand - it turns out that the total number of people who lived in the Paleolithic is about ten billion. Exactly the same number of people walked the earth during the thousand years of the Middle Ages (the number of humanity is several hundred million), and during one hundred and twenty-five years of modern history.
Thus, our demographic model cuts the entire history of mankind into identical (not in duration, but in content) pieces, during each of which about ten billion people lived. The most amazing thing is that exactly this periodization existed in history and paleontology long before the advent of global demographic models. Still, humanists, for all their problems with mathematics, cannot be denied intuition.
Now ten billion people pass through the earth in just half a century. This means that the “historical era” has been compressed to one generation. It is no longer possible not to notice this. Today’s teenagers don’t understand what Alla Pugacheva sang about thirty years ago: “...and you won’t be able to wait out three people at a machine gun” - what machine? Why wait? Stalin, Lenin, Bonaparte, Nebuchadnezzar - for them this is what in grammar is called “plusquaperfect” - a long past tense. It is now fashionable to complain about the breakdown of connections between generations, about the dying of traditions - but perhaps this is a natural consequence of the acceleration of history. If each generation lives in its own era, the legacy of previous eras may simply not be useful to it.
A new beginning

The compression of historical time has now reached its limit; it is limited by the effective duration of a generation - about forty-five years. This means that the hyperbolic growth in the number of people cannot continue - the basic law of growth simply must change. And he is already changing. According to the formula, today there should be about ten billion of us. And there are only seven of us: three billion is a considerable difference that can be measured and interpreted. Before our eyes, a demographic transition is taking place - a turning point from unbridled population growth to some other method of progress.
For some reason, many people like to see these as signs of an impending disaster. But the catastrophe here is more in people’s minds than in reality. A physicist would call what is happening a phase transition: you put a pan of water on the fire, and for a long time nothing happens, only lonely bubbles rise. And then suddenly everything boils over. This is how it is with humanity: the accumulation of internal energy slowly occurs, and then everything takes on a new form.
A good image is rafting timber down mountain rivers. Many of our rivers are shallow, so they do this: they build a small dam, accumulate a certain amount of logs, and then suddenly open the floodgates. And a wave runs along the river, which carries the trunks - it runs faster than the flow of the river itself. The most terrible place here is the transition itself, where the smoke is like a rocker, where the smooth flow above and below is divided by a section of chaotic movement. This is what is happening now.
Around 1995, humanity passed through its maximum growth rate, when eighty million people were born per year. Since then, growth has significantly decreased. The demographic transition is a transition from a growth regime to stabilization of the population at a level of no more than ten billion. Progress, of course, will continue, but at a different pace and at a different level.
I think that many of the troubles that we are experiencing - the financial crisis, the moral crisis, and the unsettled life - are a stressful, imbalanced state associated with the suddenness of the onset of this transition period. In a sense, we are in the thick of it. We are accustomed to the fact that uncontrollable growth is our law of life. Our morality, social institutions, and values ​​were adapted to the development regime that was unchanged throughout history, but is now changing.
And it changes very quickly. Both statistical data and a mathematical model indicate that the width of the transition is less than a hundred years. This is despite the fact that it does not occur simultaneously in different countries. When Oswald Spengler wrote about the “Decline of Europe,” he may have had in mind the first signs of the process: the very concept of “demographic transition” was first formulated by the demographer Landry using the example of France. But now the process is already affecting less developed countries: the population growth of Russia has practically stopped, the population of China is stabilizing. Perhaps prototypes of the future world should be sought in the regions that were the first to enter the transition area, for example, in Scandinavia.
It is curious that during the “demographic transition”, lagging countries quickly catch up with those who took this path earlier. For the pioneers - France and Sweden - the process of stabilizing the population took a century and a half, and the peak occurred at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. But for example, in Costa Rica or Sri Lanka, which passed their peak growth rate in the eighties, the entire transition takes several decades. The later a country enters the stabilization phase, the more acute it becomes. In this sense, Russia gravitates more towards European countries - the peak growth rate was left behind us back in the thirties - and therefore can count on a softer transition scenario.
Of course, there is reason to be wary of this uneven process across countries, which could lead to a dramatic redistribution of wealth and influence. One of the popular horror stories is “Islamization.” But Islamization comes and goes, just as religious systems have come and gone more than once in history. Neither the Crusades nor the conquests of Alexander the Great changed the law of population growth. The laws will also remain in effect during the period of demographic transition. I cannot guarantee that everything will happen peacefully, but I also don’t think that the process will be very dramatic. Perhaps it's just my optimism versus the pessimism of others. Pessimism has always been a much more fashionable trend, but I am rather an optimist. My friend Zhores Alferov says that there are only optimists left here, because the pessimists have left.
People often ask me about recipes - they are used to asking, but I am not ready to answer. I cannot offer ready-made answers to pose as a prophet. I'm not a prophet, I'm just learning. History is like the weather. Nature has no bad weather. We live under such and such circumstances, and we must accept and understand these circumstances. It seems to me that a step towards understanding has been achieved. I don’t know how these ideas will develop in future generations; that's their problem. I did what I did: I showed how we approached the transition point and indicated its trajectory. I can't promise you that the worst is over. But “terrible” is a subjective concept.
Text: Alexey Aleksenko