Saturday, March 16, 2013
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Stringy-1
This universe is 10 dimensional. Which means we are actually holograms of our true selves, projections on this 4 dimensional world. The higher dimensions being curled up can only be probed in higher energies and shorter length scales. Some of these dimensions are compactified. This has strange consequences. For instance we will see the same mass being repeated along the direction of the compactified dimension since there's a periodicity in that direction. In the length scale where these dimensions are actually visible to us, we also enter into the realm of quantum mechanics. Over here there's time traveling, tunneling, and an overall probabilistic interpretation to all the events. Some set-up like the Schrodinger's cat experiment can translate these probabilities to our macro world, and this gives us an opportunity to think what if, our macro-world has been controlled by these strange set-ups? Of course this will do away with determinism, but there may remain some biased-ness towards certain events than others. Things (particles as well as waves) have a kind of fuzzy appearence, which when probed in gives us infinite mass, and other charges. This is when we probe in using the machinery of QFT, something very well established and experimentally verified upto certain energy/length scales. But truly this is the realm of string theory where those nonsenses(infinities) are no longer present. Everything reduces to finite, length and mass, which corresponds to the elusive string. The 1D object which wiggles and vibrates, producing modes each of which correspond to some particle that we see (fundamental particles). The string whose ends may be attached to some D-brane worlds, maybe some 4D world like ours. There may also be totally free strings, and there may be closed ones too. All these varieties give rise to different interesting interactions. Gravity arises from closed string dynamics, which interact very less with the 4D brane worlds we live in, explaining why gravity is weak. Then there are string-string interactions, which manifests itself as QFT in higher length scales. We humans are also built up of strings fundamentally. Surely consciousness can then someday(when we have a proper Lagrangian) be aptly explained, and free will will lose its meaning.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
IN RESPONSE TO "DEATH by Arnab Hazra"
cold. WARM. dawn. NIGHT. rained. HAD RAINED. Saw into his eyes- dead. DEAD. rajnigandha garland. RAJNIGANDHA GARLAND. i hate rajnigandhas. they are death. they are beautiful. i love rajnigandhas. their smell is the sweetest. beautiful. SICKLY SWEET. four of us, family, weeping. mourning. it rained that day. but not yet. CROWDING IN EVERY ROOM. shrunken body. SHRUNKEN BODY. CLOSED EYES. eyes open. in his eyes i saw nothing, just eyes. CLOSED EYES. BURNING GHATS. animal burial ground. in the interiors of shokher bajar. GANGES. ASHES. dust. It was beautiful. the place. BOLO HORI. hori bol. my noel. my beautiful noel would be buried in a beautiful place. strong noel. brave noel. DEAD. buried beside a mango tree. in our old home we had a mango tree. THREE GOATS TIED TO THREE TREES IN A ROW. life. DEATH. interim. he would sit on the verandah and peer through the branches to the street below.outside. filtered green. Verandah. Closed space. MALA OF THREE BLEEDING HEADS. SMILING. forlorn. shades of green. out to freedom.DEATH.STREAK OF RED DOTS IN HIS FACE. SCIMITAR GOES UP AND COMES DOWN WITH AN UNEARTHLY SWISH. my beautiful noel sleeps beside a mango tree. Salt and lime on his body. The earth will consume his beautiful body. He had suffered too much. DEAD. NIBBLING. BLOOD. RAJNIGANDHA. Rajnigandha. It rained that day.
Noel Bhattacharya, my furry brother. Came to us on 7th December 1997. Came to us on a Sunday. He fell on the 24th of June 2010. For fourteen days he tried to get up. On the fifteenth day he didn’t. Buried beside a mango tree on a rainy Sunday. Drops of tears.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Death
The sky was red the night my grandfather died.
It was a hot end-summer day, rather uncharacteristically so. It had been raining the few days before that. And it was nearly seven in the evening when Anita, the nurse who had been looking after him for the last few months came up to my mother teary-eyed.
“Dadababu aar nei didi (He is no more)”, she murmured. She didn’t talk much, a rather priceless quality for her vocation.
My aunt broke down. Anita shuffled out of the room.
Run up the stairs. Run down them. Run up them again. Get caught in the middle. “Ok kid, I'll give you a toffee , or maybe even two , JUST TELL ME WHERE YOU KEPT MY GODDAM RAZOR!!!”
Speckles of shaving foam all over my face. Signs of a regular shave badly interrupted.
Mission Accomplished.
It was nearly eleven by the time all formalities were done with. A hearse waited in front of my house. The house was full by then, relatives and friends crowding in every room. The sickly sweet smell of rajnigandhas filled the air even as a few of the more religious minded muttered prayers under their breath. The shrunken body of my grandfather lay in the middle of the bed. His eyes were closed, a couple of tulsi leaves on them.
For a moment there, as I blankly stared at him, I suddenly felt a twinge of sorrow for the tulsi tree. It was a fledgling plant, just a handful of twigs planted about a month ago. Funny how the mind remembers.
“I planted this tree when I first built this house. And now its roots are damaging the basement roof. So, I’m cutting it down. Which part of it don’t you get?”
“Cutting a tulsi tree is years of bad luck, you stubborn old man!!!”
“I’ll take my chances.”
This was not the first time I had visited the burning ghats. Even as the car neared the burning ghats, the traditional khai thrown on the road by other funeral cars served as a morbid bread crumb trail to the location. A mammoth building on the shores of the Ganga, these ghats are the proud resting place (as the signboards claimed), of Rabindranath Tagore. How getting burnt at a place and then getting your ashes thrown into the river can make that particular place your resting place is something I have wondered ever since I read that sign for the first time. I remember wondering about it again that day.
Dadu used to say that he was out on the Kolkata roads the day Rabindranath had died. There had been mass hysteria as the body of the great man had been carried through the crowded Kolkata streets with millions throttling to touch him. “I got to touch him”, he would recount later, with an obvious pride in his voice, “I lost a shoe in the process, but I touched him.”
Even in the dead of the night, the ghats remain a rather busy place. We reached there at around midnight, only to find it bustling with death (or was it life ?). Every five minutes a truck loaded with mourners and the deceased would descend upon the ghats with their cries of “Bolo Hori, Hori Bol” renting the night sky. Or sometimes, it would be a much quieter lot, shaking their heads in the midst of thick cigarette fumes at the solitary tea shop. We soon found ourselves in a queue for the electrical furnace Number 4 (“Fast or slow?” “Huh?” “Electric or wooden?” “Umm... Electric…”).
“Cummon Kid, Buck up!!! Hurry up!!!”
“It’s not even 6 dadu…”
“Damn right it’s not 6. The Shop opens at 6. You want to stand behind that hag from next door?”
“I honestly don’t care dadu…”
“Well, I do. And I say we run. Cummon now…”
It was a long serpentine queue in front of the furnace. People smoking, talking, crying. Blank faces, happy faces, sad faces. Interspersed with the sleeping dead. Peaceful in their last 4’X7’ space on earth. It can be rather odd starting at dead faces. Contorted in agony of their last moments, or at calm with a lifetime spent. It’s all there.
And also the goats.
Three goats in a village.
Strolling majestically amongst the living and the dead in the ghat.
Tied to three trees in a row.
Feeding on the abundant stale flowers and leaves strewn about the corpses.
A six year old child feeding them a handful of dried leaves.
One of the braver ones start munching on the garland on one of the lesser guarded corpses.
An old man with prickly tiny white hair walks towards them with a huge scimitar in his hands.
It keeps at it, moving from the torso to near the face.
A small spectre-like crowd gathers as the ancient scimitar goes up and comes down with an unearthly swish. The child moves back a step, a streak of red dots on his face.
I couldn’t see the mouth of the goat anymore. Hidden behind the face and the mass of flowers about it, I could but vaguely see what it was that it was chewing on.
The old man is stringing them up, making a mala of the three still bleeding heads as the writhing bodies are carried off by the crowd. They will come in handy in the marriage feast.
I could see it now. The flowers have mostly been cleared up by its appetite. It’s biting at the ear now.
He stands up with a grim smile on his face and the monstrous mala in his hands. He walks towards the child, a thinner red-trail following his path, a path tad different from the much thicker blood red ones leading to the kitchen.
A trail of blood appears at the ear. Sickly red, reluctant to move, but I could see it nonetheless.
Laughing, he throws it around my neck. And tells me to run along, the marriage can’t start without the nitbor.
A summon for the next in line cuts through the slumbering 3 AM air, soon followed by howls of realisation. Other aggrieved sleepy mourners sit up to see what is happening. Or just find a better spot to live through the night.
I grimaced.
“Bolo Hori, Hori Bol.”
It was a hot end-summer day, rather uncharacteristically so. It had been raining the few days before that. And it was nearly seven in the evening when Anita, the nurse who had been looking after him for the last few months came up to my mother teary-eyed.
“Dadababu aar nei didi (He is no more)”, she murmured. She didn’t talk much, a rather priceless quality for her vocation.
My aunt broke down. Anita shuffled out of the room.
Run up the stairs. Run down them. Run up them again. Get caught in the middle. “Ok kid
Speckles of shaving foam all over my face. Signs of a regular shave badly interrupted.
Mission Accomplished.
It was nearly eleven by the time all formalities were done with. A hearse waited in front of my house. The house was full by then, relatives and friends crowding in every room. The sickly sweet smell of rajnigandhas filled the air even as a few of the more religious minded muttered prayers under their breath. The shrunken body of my grandfather lay in the middle of the bed. His eyes were closed, a couple of tulsi leaves on them.
For a moment there, as I blankly stared at him, I suddenly felt a twinge of sorrow for the tulsi tree. It was a fledgling plant, just a handful of twigs planted about a month ago. Funny how the mind remembers.
“I planted this tree when I first built this house. And now its roots are damaging the basement roof. So, I’m cutting it down. Which part of it don’t you get?”
“Cutting a tulsi tree is years of bad luck, you stubborn old man!!!”
“I’ll take my chances.”
This was not the first time I had visited the burning ghats. Even as the car neared the burning ghats, the traditional khai thrown on the road by other funeral cars served as a morbid bread crumb trail to the location. A mammoth building on the shores of the Ganga, these ghats are the proud resting place (as the signboards claimed), of Rabindranath Tagore. How getting burnt at a place and then getting your ashes thrown into the river can make that particular place your resting place is something I have wondered ever since I read that sign for the first time. I remember wondering about it again that day.
Dadu used to say that he was out on the Kolkata roads the day Rabindranath had died. There had been mass hysteria as the body of the great man had been carried through the crowded Kolkata streets with millions throttling to touch him. “I got to touch him”, he would recount later, with an obvious pride in his voice, “I lost a shoe in the process, but I touched him.”
Even in the dead of the night, the ghats remain a rather busy place. We reached there at around midnight, only to find it bustling with death (or was it life ?). Every five minutes a truck loaded with mourners and the deceased would descend upon the ghats with their cries of “Bolo Hori, Hori Bol” renting the night sky. Or sometimes, it would be a much quieter lot, shaking their heads in the midst of thick cigarette fumes at the solitary tea shop. We soon found ourselves in a queue for the electrical furnace Number 4 (“Fast or slow?” “Huh?” “Electric or wooden?” “Umm... Electric…”).
“Cummon Kid, Buck up!!! Hurry up!!!”
“It’s not even 6 dadu…”
“Damn right it’s not 6. The Shop opens at 6. You want to stand behind that hag from next door?”
“I honestly don’t care dadu…”
“Well, I do. And I say we run. Cummon now…”
It was a long serpentine queue in front of the furnace. People smoking, talking, crying. Blank faces, happy faces, sad faces. Interspersed with the sleeping dead. Peaceful in their last 4’X7’ space on earth. It can be rather odd starting at dead faces. Contorted in agony of their last moments, or at calm with a lifetime spent. It’s all there.
And also the goats.
Three goats in a village.
Strolling majestically amongst the living and the dead in the ghat.
Tied to three trees in a row.
Feeding on the abundant stale flowers and leaves strewn about the corpses.
A six year old child feeding them a handful of dried leaves.
One of the braver ones start munching on the garland on one of the lesser guarded corpses.
An old man with prickly tiny white hair walks towards them with a huge scimitar in his hands.
It keeps at it, moving from the torso to near the face.
A small spectre-like crowd gathers as the ancient scimitar goes up and comes down with an unearthly swish. The child moves back a step, a streak of red dots on his face.
I couldn’t see the mouth of the goat anymore. Hidden behind the face and the mass of flowers about it, I could but vaguely see what it was that it was chewing on.
The old man is stringing them up, making a mala of the three still bleeding heads as the writhing bodies are carried off by the crowd. They will come in handy in the marriage feast.
I could see it now. The flowers have mostly been cleared up by its appetite. It’s biting at the ear now.
He stands up with a grim smile on his face and the monstrous mala in his hands. He walks towards the child, a thinner red-trail following his path, a path tad different from the much thicker blood red ones leading to the kitchen.
A trail of blood appears at the ear. Sickly red, reluctant to move, but I could see it nonetheless.
Laughing, he throws it around my neck. And tells me to run along, the marriage can’t start without the nitbor.
A summon for the next in line cuts through the slumbering 3 AM air, soon followed by howls of realisation. Other aggrieved sleepy mourners sit up to see what is happening. Or just find a better spot to live through the night.
I grimaced.
“Bolo Hori, Hori Bol.”
Thursday, January 28, 2010
World of 2026 PART 1
I was recently given this rather interesting job of envisioning the world and the current power structure sixteen years down the line in 2026. This background would be used as the background for a simulation of the Security Council of the UN with some 25 participating countries. The special areas of focus were to be the arms race in space and nuclear arms race, and with mention of the 25 participating nations.
The whole thing got rather unwieldy with too many factors being mentioned to explain the causality of the vents happening.
Don't really expect much of anyone to read through the whole goddamn thing, even the participants in the Model United Nations. But I hope that what I have written might raise some questions about the future. Not that anyone will really answer them, or can answer them , but questions asked are perhaps the last things that keep us alive.
Oh, and look out for the references! Most of the people mentioned are real life personalities in today's world, some very well-known (e.g.- Sarah Palin) and some not so much ,(e.g- Commandante Marcos, look him up- brilliant guy). The literary references are rather bland and childish, but anyhow...
So, with no more delay, welcome to the world of 2026 :-) :
A Security Council reform has been an
important and highly controversial topic at the
United Nations for many years. Although expansion
and reform of the veto powers were widely seen as
vital, agreement on a specific formula was
impossible. Chronic disputes raged over which
countries to add to the council and what would be
their powers.
It wasn’t until 2018 that a reform was actually
passed by resolution of the General Assembly
(voting 181/52/4). Under this resolution, the original
five permanent members remained on the council,
but their veto powers did not remain intact. UK’s veto power was taken away following the mass human rights violations proved in the International Court of Justice during the Civil War of 2017 which resulted with the withdrawal of Scotland from UK and the Commonwealth. In addition, three new-permanent seats and two additional
rotating members were appointed to the council.
Individually, these new members do not have
veto power. However if Great Britain and a 4-1 majority of the five countries are agreed on a point then they can veto a move. However, the vote of UK is compulsory for such a veto to take place.
The Council expanded to 25, and the number of non-permanent members to 15, rotating on a two-year basis. As approved by the reformed Security
Council for a five-year term beginning in 2022, the United Nations Secretary-General is A.C.Verghese, from Nigeria. The composition of the Security Council for
2026 is:
ORIGINAL PERMANENT MEMBERS (with
individual veto power)
- People’s Republic of China
- Republic of France
- Russian Federation
- United States of America
With collective VETO power:
SPECIAL PERMNENT MEMBER-
- United Kingdom
PERMANENT MEMBERS
- Germany
- India
- Brazil
ROTATING MEMBERS
- Mexico
- South Africa
With no VETO power:
NON-PERMANENT MEMBERS
-Iran
-Iraq
-Venezuela
-Saudi Arabia
-Austria
-Republic of Korea
-Israel
-Italy
-Japan
-Libya
-Spain
-Portugal
-Nigeria
-Pakistan
-North Korea
UN DEVELOPMENT UP TO 2028
Regional Organizations:
These have kept the same role of enhancing cooperation and communication amongst states in a specific region. However, internally some of them have had alterations regarding the participation of their members. Countries like Brazil and South Africa have taken almost total control of the OES (Organización de Estados Suramericanos) and the AU (African Union), respectively. Due to their growing power in world politics they have managed to be the greatest powers in their particular regional bodies. A similar situation occurred in the Arab League, with Libya changing their economic and diplomatic policies drastically and having an immense influence in the other member states’ policies, playing a role in mediating between the West and the Arab states in face of the new political dynamics.
The Security Council and the UN as a whole:
Due to veto power, polemic solutions are most likely to be dismissed, and with Brazil, South Africa, and India as permanent members of the SC, the non-permanent members have even less participation in this UN organ. Even though efforts are being made to maintain impartiality within the body, developed countries are gaining ground in the decision making process. However, the continued demands by the South Africa for entry to the so-called “Elite Three” and the considerable economic clout commanded by Japan and South Africa mean that the reflections of this rather polarized group doesn’t fall on the world as a whole. The leading powers of the world try to gain allies by any means, and this causes a marked division of blocks in most UN assemblies.
The whole thing got rather unwieldy with too many factors being mentioned to explain the causality of the vents happening.
Don't really expect much of anyone to read through the whole goddamn thing, even the participants in the Model United Nations. But I hope that what I have written might raise some questions about the future. Not that anyone will really answer them, or can answer them , but questions asked are perhaps the last things that keep us alive.
Oh, and look out for the references! Most of the people mentioned are real life personalities in today's world, some very well-known (e.g.- Sarah Palin) and some not so much ,(e.g- Commandante Marcos, look him up- brilliant guy). The literary references are rather bland and childish, but anyhow...
So, with no more delay, welcome to the world of 2026 :-) :
A Security Council reform has been an
important and highly controversial topic at the
United Nations for many years. Although expansion
and reform of the veto powers were widely seen as
vital, agreement on a specific formula was
impossible. Chronic disputes raged over which
countries to add to the council and what would be
their powers.
It wasn’t until 2018 that a reform was actually
passed by resolution of the General Assembly
(voting 181/52/4). Under this resolution, the original
five permanent members remained on the council,
but their veto powers did not remain intact. UK’s veto power was taken away following the mass human rights violations proved in the International Court of Justice during the Civil War of 2017 which resulted with the withdrawal of Scotland from UK and the Commonwealth. In addition, three new-permanent seats and two additional
rotating members were appointed to the council.
Individually, these new members do not have
veto power. However if Great Britain and a 4-1 majority of the five countries are agreed on a point then they can veto a move. However, the vote of UK is compulsory for such a veto to take place.
The Council expanded to 25, and the number of non-permanent members to 15, rotating on a two-year basis. As approved by the reformed Security
Council for a five-year term beginning in 2022, the United Nations Secretary-General is A.C.Verghese, from Nigeria. The composition of the Security Council for
2026 is:
ORIGINAL PERMANENT MEMBERS (with
individual veto power)
- People’s Republic of China
- Republic of France
- Russian Federation
- United States of America
With collective VETO power:
SPECIAL PERMNENT MEMBER-
- United Kingdom
PERMANENT MEMBERS
- Germany
- India
- Brazil
ROTATING MEMBERS
- Mexico
- South Africa
With no VETO power:
NON-PERMANENT MEMBERS
-Iran
-Iraq
-Venezuela
-Saudi Arabia
-Austria
-Republic of Korea
-Israel
-Italy
-Japan
-Libya
-Spain
-Portugal
-Nigeria
-Pakistan
-North Korea
UN DEVELOPMENT UP TO 2028
Regional Organizations:
These have kept the same role of enhancing cooperation and communication amongst states in a specific region. However, internally some of them have had alterations regarding the participation of their members. Countries like Brazil and South Africa have taken almost total control of the OES (Organización de Estados Suramericanos) and the AU (African Union), respectively. Due to their growing power in world politics they have managed to be the greatest powers in their particular regional bodies. A similar situation occurred in the Arab League, with Libya changing their economic and diplomatic policies drastically and having an immense influence in the other member states’ policies, playing a role in mediating between the West and the Arab states in face of the new political dynamics.
The Security Council and the UN as a whole:
Due to veto power, polemic solutions are most likely to be dismissed, and with Brazil, South Africa, and India as permanent members of the SC, the non-permanent members have even less participation in this UN organ. Even though efforts are being made to maintain impartiality within the body, developed countries are gaining ground in the decision making process. However, the continued demands by the South Africa for entry to the so-called “Elite Three” and the considerable economic clout commanded by Japan and South Africa mean that the reflections of this rather polarized group doesn’t fall on the world as a whole. The leading powers of the world try to gain allies by any means, and this causes a marked division of blocks in most UN assemblies.
World of 2026 PART 2
World after 2010:
2010-2014: Even as the world reels from the terrible after-effects of the economic depression of 2009, North Korea firmly put its name in the list of rogue Nuclear powers. In spite of the firm trade embargo placed on them at this point, North Korea signed a plethora of treaties with Iran on a range of matters including a special treaty involving the price of oil sold by Iran to North Korea. Whilst most of the countries in the UN strongly condemned of this, even dubbing it the ‘Axis Of Evil’, pre-emptive military action against Iran was veteoed by the SC. This deviation from the so-called juche policy of North Korea is also associated with renewed trade contacts, including unconfirmed rumors of trade of Nuclear fuel for defense research.
While the economic pace slows, emerging economies continue to grow.
Governments tend to focus almost exclusively on problems with a clear historical precedence and incapable of finding creative solutions to newer problems (e.g., climate change, global terrorism). Short-term, temporary solutions to problems requiring a long-term commitment are ineffective. Lack of global leadership only worsens conditions. Traditional international institutions are weakened by the diffusion of state power and new powers challenge the status quo. Global economy is weakened and nations are unable to manage security and environmental challenges.
Japan launched its first fully self-made satellite Hitokiri-I in 2013. It took the world by a storm with the secrecy of the whole space mission raising several questions. Japan insists that its space mission is for scientific purposes only.
The dream of the G-20s(Emerging
economies, like Mexico, Brazil, India and China) fades and
global insecurity increases (e.g., natural resource
and ethnic conflicts, Middle East arms race, etc.). Fidel Castro passes away after prolonged illness in 2014, and Kim Sung-Il dies in a supposed assassination attempt, blamed on a South Korean right-wing extremist group. His successor, the hitherto unknown Kim Sung Kao, places the full might of his army at the borders and threatens nuclear war unless an unconditional extradition of all the members of the group is done. South Korea refuses and asks for US help. Four nuclear submarines and two battleship are deployed all within missile range of Pyongyang. This attempt at Gunship Diplomacy fails as china supports the North Korean government and deploys its own submarines. After 46 days of a complete stalemate, both sides decide to withdraw the Nuclear warheads.
2015-2026:
2016: Hugo Chavez dies after a prolonged rare blood disease. His death brings the end to an era of Leftist dominance in South America. The prolonged struggle for power after his death basically paves the path for Brazil to take its place as the biggest player in the region. Venezuela however still commands the biggest army of the region and also the second biggest economy.
2017: In a shock election result, the Communist Party of Iraq sweeps into power with a two-thirds majority. The new government blames the continued insurgency and terrorism on shadow-play by the USA. While it did condemn the USA, they kept all previous relations with the developing nations intact. The following 5 years is characterized by a remarkable alacrity in the diplomatic policies of the government as it signs a series of treaties aimed mostly at isolating arch-rival Iran and neutralizing Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
2018: Experts in Saudi Arabia claim that the remaining amount of oil in the reserves of the country are hardly enough for the country to sustain itself for ten more years. As oil prices escalate world-wide, large scale riots break out. Osama Bin Laden makes a public appearance in one such huge gathering, showing Al-Qaeda links to the whole movement. In an unrelated incident, police start firing on an unarmed procession protesting the continued presence of the Western Oil Companies in Saudi Arabia. The movement reaches a whole new fever pitch with anti-Shah groups all demanding the ousting of the royal family. A coup is carried out by a faction in the army two months into the movement. The whole Royal Family is massacred and all USA passport holders are given 48 hours to evacuate Saudi or risk being shot. Power is transferred to General Al-Nassiri, who cuts off all Western links but nevertheless keeps Osama banished, showing a Franco-like tendency. In spite of the oil trade still happening, the power is now shifted to the Arabs, who sign a joint pact with the newly communist Iraq and Libya in a bid to control oil prices. Much of this money is supposedly going to the newly revived nuclear program of Iraq.
2016: Germany and Israel withdraw from the NPT, creating a huge furor in the UN. Both the countries claim that the clauses of the NPT are draconian in the new energy world order and new research must be done to meet future needs and further security.
2017: India, Germany and Japan launch satellite Uno, which is declared to have covert capabilities within hours of a successful launch.
2017: Unrest in Xinjiang and Tibet. Extreme pro-democracy riots take place all over China.
2017: Government and rebel organization Zapatista Army of National Liberation meet in historic summit in Chihuahua province in Mexico. Talks fail miserably midway and the iconic rebel leader, Subcomandante Marcos, is caught and executed within an hour. However, within a few days the Marcos appears on national television and reveals the person executed to be a double. He also expresses wishes to rejoin the political mainstream.
2010-2014: Even as the world reels from the terrible after-effects of the economic depression of 2009, North Korea firmly put its name in the list of rogue Nuclear powers. In spite of the firm trade embargo placed on them at this point, North Korea signed a plethora of treaties with Iran on a range of matters including a special treaty involving the price of oil sold by Iran to North Korea. Whilst most of the countries in the UN strongly condemned of this, even dubbing it the ‘Axis Of Evil’, pre-emptive military action against Iran was veteoed by the SC. This deviation from the so-called juche policy of North Korea is also associated with renewed trade contacts, including unconfirmed rumors of trade of Nuclear fuel for defense research.
While the economic pace slows, emerging economies continue to grow.
Governments tend to focus almost exclusively on problems with a clear historical precedence and incapable of finding creative solutions to newer problems (e.g., climate change, global terrorism). Short-term, temporary solutions to problems requiring a long-term commitment are ineffective. Lack of global leadership only worsens conditions. Traditional international institutions are weakened by the diffusion of state power and new powers challenge the status quo. Global economy is weakened and nations are unable to manage security and environmental challenges.
Japan launched its first fully self-made satellite Hitokiri-I in 2013. It took the world by a storm with the secrecy of the whole space mission raising several questions. Japan insists that its space mission is for scientific purposes only.
The dream of the G-20s(Emerging
economies, like Mexico, Brazil, India and China) fades and
global insecurity increases (e.g., natural resource
and ethnic conflicts, Middle East arms race, etc.). Fidel Castro passes away after prolonged illness in 2014, and Kim Sung-Il dies in a supposed assassination attempt, blamed on a South Korean right-wing extremist group. His successor, the hitherto unknown Kim Sung Kao, places the full might of his army at the borders and threatens nuclear war unless an unconditional extradition of all the members of the group is done. South Korea refuses and asks for US help. Four nuclear submarines and two battleship are deployed all within missile range of Pyongyang. This attempt at Gunship Diplomacy fails as china supports the North Korean government and deploys its own submarines. After 46 days of a complete stalemate, both sides decide to withdraw the Nuclear warheads.
2015-2026:
2016: Hugo Chavez dies after a prolonged rare blood disease. His death brings the end to an era of Leftist dominance in South America. The prolonged struggle for power after his death basically paves the path for Brazil to take its place as the biggest player in the region. Venezuela however still commands the biggest army of the region and also the second biggest economy.
2017: In a shock election result, the Communist Party of Iraq sweeps into power with a two-thirds majority. The new government blames the continued insurgency and terrorism on shadow-play by the USA. While it did condemn the USA, they kept all previous relations with the developing nations intact. The following 5 years is characterized by a remarkable alacrity in the diplomatic policies of the government as it signs a series of treaties aimed mostly at isolating arch-rival Iran and neutralizing Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
2018: Experts in Saudi Arabia claim that the remaining amount of oil in the reserves of the country are hardly enough for the country to sustain itself for ten more years. As oil prices escalate world-wide, large scale riots break out. Osama Bin Laden makes a public appearance in one such huge gathering, showing Al-Qaeda links to the whole movement. In an unrelated incident, police start firing on an unarmed procession protesting the continued presence of the Western Oil Companies in Saudi Arabia. The movement reaches a whole new fever pitch with anti-Shah groups all demanding the ousting of the royal family. A coup is carried out by a faction in the army two months into the movement. The whole Royal Family is massacred and all USA passport holders are given 48 hours to evacuate Saudi or risk being shot. Power is transferred to General Al-Nassiri, who cuts off all Western links but nevertheless keeps Osama banished, showing a Franco-like tendency. In spite of the oil trade still happening, the power is now shifted to the Arabs, who sign a joint pact with the newly communist Iraq and Libya in a bid to control oil prices. Much of this money is supposedly going to the newly revived nuclear program of Iraq.
2016: Germany and Israel withdraw from the NPT, creating a huge furor in the UN. Both the countries claim that the clauses of the NPT are draconian in the new energy world order and new research must be done to meet future needs and further security.
2017: India, Germany and Japan launch satellite Uno, which is declared to have covert capabilities within hours of a successful launch.
2017: Unrest in Xinjiang and Tibet. Extreme pro-democracy riots take place all over China.
2017: Government and rebel organization Zapatista Army of National Liberation meet in historic summit in Chihuahua province in Mexico. Talks fail miserably midway and the iconic rebel leader, Subcomandante Marcos, is caught and executed within an hour. However, within a few days the Marcos appears on national television and reveals the person executed to be a double. He also expresses wishes to rejoin the political mainstream.
World of 2026 PART 3
2018: Zapatista Army of National Liberation, with unconditional support from the Left parties sweeps to power in Mexico. Marcos is sworn in as President in his iconic balaclava. His first order was to re-create a true Mexican Miracle, one of the points in which was starting a Space Program with defense specialty with Russian collaboration.
2018: Germany launches Vielfrass–I, a satellite with an ultra-modern defense system making it immune to ICBMs.
2018: UK launches Saurion-I, a satellite which is rumored to have nuclear weapons. UK confirms the covert capabilities of the satellite, but does not confirm the nuclear capabilities.
2018: Controversial USA President George W. Bush is assassinated by a Islamic fundamentalist while on a Peace Mission to Nigeria.
2019: Germany tests a Hydrogen bomb. It is faced with much condemnation from all over the world. However, India, Brazil and Russia support the right of Germany to conduct the tests.
2019: Islamist extreme right-wing parties come to power in a blood-filled election process that analysts take to be the beginning of a second series of ethnic struggles in the African region. The new government underlines its pure-Islam propaganda by ordering all non-Islamic foreigners to forego of all their assets and leave the country within a month.
2020: China joins the space arms race, with Confucius-III, with nuclear capabilities.
2020: Angela Merkel wins a heated election for the post of President of European Council defeating Christine Lagarde of France. Germany effectively becomes the head of the EU, commanding a fatal combination of strong economy and defense.
2020: Russian satellite trio Lyka is launched. It is armed with a new type of long range cruise missiles and can strike at any point in the world at a given point.
2020: USA alleges that Russia is producing nuclear arms en masse and starts arming its nuclear arsenal. Several civilian nuclear plants are modified to this end.
2020: Inflation in Nigeria reaches 347 per cent.
2021: In the throes of its 16th military coup since independence, Pakistan, under its new dictator General F.Tali declares war on India, and launches a pre-emptive nuclear strike on New Delhi. The surface-to-surface cruise missiles are brought down by the Israeli missile detection system. However, the explosion and subsequent radiation poisoning kills nearly one million people in Punjab. India launches three nuclear Agni-VI Missiles 36 minutes later aimed at Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Lahore, killing 16 million people, including General Tali and his Cabinet. Three nuclear subs are put on alert in Bay of Bengal in anticipation of a Chinese attack from Tibet. China attacks India at Arunachal and Aksai Chin. Both sides suffer huge losses but no nuclear arms are launched. China also attacks Bhutan, taking over the small mountain nation within 2 days. The international community brings a stop to the war, with Brazil playing a leading role. A truce is signed between the two nations, with Tibet being declared an international arms free zone under UN protection. However it continues to be a part of China. Bhutan is given back its status, but it is a full democracy now, with the whole Royal Family being massacred by Chinese troops.
2022: Iraq tests a nuclear bomb.
2022: Pakistan, devastated by the nuclear attacks is declared the first under-UN state, a special characterization defined by an amendment to protect nations under peace-keeping forces till stability is regained. Its nuclear arsenals are cleared and nuclear fuel used in civilian facilities. However, the North-west frontier remains a fierce unruly terrain, with most of the disgruntled members of the disbanded army joining the tribesmen there to carry out guerrilla attacks on Un troops and India.
2022: After the Middle-East oil crisis South America finally came to an agreement, and completed the efforts to unite in a European Union like system. The unification began with the efforts of UN and currently Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela are joined together in free trade with their neighboring countries of South America in the OES (Organización de Estados Suramericanos). The only difference is that the currency hasn´t been able to be unified.
2023: Uno-2 launched by Japan and India.
2023: Italy launches Garibaldi-1, something that
2024: USA and UK launch Saurion-III. Within one week of its launch, it shoots down a Russian drone that had strayed on Alaskan airspace. An USA spokesperson declares it to be the, “Ultimate Eye in the sky”.
YOUR COUNTRY IN 2026
ORIGINAL PERMANENT MEMBERS: These
countries have the right to a VETO vote, this means
that if the member nation of this group votes “NO”
to a resolution this automatically fails.
PEOPLE´S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: After its years as the dominant world power
in the 2010’s, when it peacefully rejoined the Province of Southeast
China (formerly known as Taiwan). China was greatly harmed by the 2020s oil crisis, which eliminated its sovereign wealth fund and foreign currency surpluses. Continued conflicts and internal disturbances meant that its development process was constricted to a large extent. But its nuclear arsenal and space program remains one of the most formidable in the world. In its foreign policy, China has sought to limit the influence of the other major powers, buying energy from all three powers (Germany, Russia and the United States) and actively exporting
goods to all three countries.
China unlike other major powers has not increased the size of its nuclear forces since 2018, it remains committed to protecting Southeast Asia
from the influence of Germany, Russia, and the United States, also is increasingly suspicious of India, whose nuclear arsenal continues to grow, with
China, being it’s obvious target.
2018: Germany launches Vielfrass–I, a satellite with an ultra-modern defense system making it immune to ICBMs.
2018: UK launches Saurion-I, a satellite which is rumored to have nuclear weapons. UK confirms the covert capabilities of the satellite, but does not confirm the nuclear capabilities.
2018: Controversial USA President George W. Bush is assassinated by a Islamic fundamentalist while on a Peace Mission to Nigeria.
2019: Germany tests a Hydrogen bomb. It is faced with much condemnation from all over the world. However, India, Brazil and Russia support the right of Germany to conduct the tests.
2019: Islamist extreme right-wing parties come to power in a blood-filled election process that analysts take to be the beginning of a second series of ethnic struggles in the African region. The new government underlines its pure-Islam propaganda by ordering all non-Islamic foreigners to forego of all their assets and leave the country within a month.
2020: China joins the space arms race, with Confucius-III, with nuclear capabilities.
2020: Angela Merkel wins a heated election for the post of President of European Council defeating Christine Lagarde of France. Germany effectively becomes the head of the EU, commanding a fatal combination of strong economy and defense.
2020: Russian satellite trio Lyka is launched. It is armed with a new type of long range cruise missiles and can strike at any point in the world at a given point.
2020: USA alleges that Russia is producing nuclear arms en masse and starts arming its nuclear arsenal. Several civilian nuclear plants are modified to this end.
2020: Inflation in Nigeria reaches 347 per cent.
2021: In the throes of its 16th military coup since independence, Pakistan, under its new dictator General F.Tali declares war on India, and launches a pre-emptive nuclear strike on New Delhi. The surface-to-surface cruise missiles are brought down by the Israeli missile detection system. However, the explosion and subsequent radiation poisoning kills nearly one million people in Punjab. India launches three nuclear Agni-VI Missiles 36 minutes later aimed at Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Lahore, killing 16 million people, including General Tali and his Cabinet. Three nuclear subs are put on alert in Bay of Bengal in anticipation of a Chinese attack from Tibet. China attacks India at Arunachal and Aksai Chin. Both sides suffer huge losses but no nuclear arms are launched. China also attacks Bhutan, taking over the small mountain nation within 2 days. The international community brings a stop to the war, with Brazil playing a leading role. A truce is signed between the two nations, with Tibet being declared an international arms free zone under UN protection. However it continues to be a part of China. Bhutan is given back its status, but it is a full democracy now, with the whole Royal Family being massacred by Chinese troops.
2022: Iraq tests a nuclear bomb.
2022: Pakistan, devastated by the nuclear attacks is declared the first under-UN state, a special characterization defined by an amendment to protect nations under peace-keeping forces till stability is regained. Its nuclear arsenals are cleared and nuclear fuel used in civilian facilities. However, the North-west frontier remains a fierce unruly terrain, with most of the disgruntled members of the disbanded army joining the tribesmen there to carry out guerrilla attacks on Un troops and India.
2022: After the Middle-East oil crisis South America finally came to an agreement, and completed the efforts to unite in a European Union like system. The unification began with the efforts of UN and currently Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela are joined together in free trade with their neighboring countries of South America in the OES (Organización de Estados Suramericanos). The only difference is that the currency hasn´t been able to be unified.
2023: Uno-2 launched by Japan and India.
2023: Italy launches Garibaldi-1, something that
2024: USA and UK launch Saurion-III. Within one week of its launch, it shoots down a Russian drone that had strayed on Alaskan airspace. An USA spokesperson declares it to be the, “Ultimate Eye in the sky”.
YOUR COUNTRY IN 2026
ORIGINAL PERMANENT MEMBERS: These
countries have the right to a VETO vote, this means
that if the member nation of this group votes “NO”
to a resolution this automatically fails.
PEOPLE´S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: After its years as the dominant world power
in the 2010’s, when it peacefully rejoined the Province of Southeast
China (formerly known as Taiwan). China was greatly harmed by the 2020s oil crisis, which eliminated its sovereign wealth fund and foreign currency surpluses. Continued conflicts and internal disturbances meant that its development process was constricted to a large extent. But its nuclear arsenal and space program remains one of the most formidable in the world. In its foreign policy, China has sought to limit the influence of the other major powers, buying energy from all three powers (Germany, Russia and the United States) and actively exporting
goods to all three countries.
China unlike other major powers has not increased the size of its nuclear forces since 2018, it remains committed to protecting Southeast Asia
from the influence of Germany, Russia, and the United States, also is increasingly suspicious of India, whose nuclear arsenal continues to grow, with
China, being it’s obvious target.
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