The Will of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrial successful person who died in 1896 (130 Solar turns ago) shows he made enough money from manufacture of goods, amongst them armaments (weapons of warfare) to leave the Will substantial enough to set up global prizes for Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature, and that 5th category of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now, 130 Solar years ago is a very long time. Not a long time in the history of Earth (45 billion solar turns), or the earliest evidence of humans, arising from previous hominid type biological creatures and which this blog must not get distracted into the geographical groupings of how these hominids survived in all the various astonishingly intricate and magical networks of life on Earth in hot, cold, coastal, mountainous, arid, delta, forest, desert, no it must not. But these hominids have been around a long time, and the humans who are industrialists and ‘scientists’ are only since the ‘Industrial’ revolutions of first coal and steam, then electricity. To be able to award a global prize at all, maybe Nobel was the first. Yes, just checked on Google, the 1901 start of the Nobel Prizes were the first international awards.
Alfred Nobel in both inventing and manufacturing all sorts of things, amongst them weapons of war, in late 1800s was factually engaging with a very different physical society to 2026. And Norway and Sweden were a very different physical society to the Mediterranean latitudes and further on south through the Sahara to the Equator. Armaments were ground objects, air warfare did not exist. The Italo-Turkish war in 1911 had not happened, WWI had not happened, WWII obviously not, and so on, into the rapid collapse of all Logical scale to conflict.
And in a logical progression, neither had nuclear.
Because the Will of Alfred Nobel was left according to how he saw matters at the time, and possibly because even he saw a slightly Illogical direction of travel in western society and knowledge that he built in these prizes in the first place, what are the criteria for reassessing a past action according to present day reality? The answer is, it’s not done, because the original person had made the money and had the right to state in his Will that prizes of those categories be awarded.
Mmm….difficult. What if Alfred Nobel himself would now worry about the state of affairs (state of human civilization on Earth) in 2026? His categories of chemistry, physics, physiology, all then were separate categories, each combining in the realm of the mysterious life on Earth, far beyond the ken or control of any one human. Literature is a recent human invention, or the modern book is, and peace there has never been on earth, nor goodwill to all mankind. Now with the arrival of a category of nuclear technology, of ‘the bomb’, where does this define the definition of Nobel’s world of late 1800s. Nuclear warfare is factually a combination of those chemistry, physics and physiology (not literature of course) expertise, and is now used as the ultimate Peace holder, that is, by having nuclear bombs then peace ensues because nobody actually wants to press that button.
If it were a legal case with barristers standing up in court, would it be argued that Alfred Nobel’s original intention is now null and void because of the developments since? The arrival of nuclear which stands over and above all the previous categories (but not over Helios) and which is held up as the keeper of peace, can also be seen as the creator of the greatest conflict, in the pecking order of rights and opinions.
If Alfred Nobel was alive in physical today, would he add a 6th Nobel Prize, that of nuclear negation? Apart from the confusion of some countries using nuclear for energy supply, and which John Swinney First Minister, is so against despite the precarious situation of Scotland, preferring instead to build 1,000s of giant wind turbines, but if there were a clear distinction drawn between nuclear technology used for a bomb and nuclear technology used for energy supply, amongst those countries in 2026 who have an active ‘bomb’, would he add that 6th Nobel Prize as a Nobel Nuclear Peace Prize? The first nuclear holding country who can lay out its component parts of what was once a bomb and prove it is dismantled gets awarded the huge gold medal of Nobel Nuclear Peace Prize.
If that happened, and the resulting dismantling top down automatically dismantled all the other nuclear holding countries, down into those who wish to have one merely to counteract that top of the pyramid, and warfare was reduced to traditional (from 1911) air warfare, how much less confusion would there be on the surface of the Earth?
Of course if time really were taken back to Alfred Nobel’s lifetime then neither would there be any air warfare, and how much less confusion would there be on the surface of the Earth from no air warfare (and no aeroplanes for leisure either)?
As the Nobel Peace Prize was left to award from the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the other Prizes to the Swedish Nobel Committee, what if both those Committees (both far northern countries on the spinning Earth) were to have a good lunch together with plenty of Northern liquid refreshment, and decide either to disband all Nobel Prizes, to acknowledge that in the time since first they were awarded that alas, human society on Earth no longer represents the reality of Alfred Nobel, or create a new Nobel Prize of the Alfred Nobel Prize for Nuclear Peace?
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