“Everything would get better and better. This was world I was born in… Suddenly, unexpectedly, one morning in 1914 whole thing came to an end” -- Harold Macmillan.

“Civilization is going downhill. Very definitely … when civilization goes downhill, whole planet goes down” -- Lewis Mumford.

Those are frightening things to hear. But things never have been same since world went mad in 1914. Instruments of death were freely used -- poison gas, automatic weapons, huge canons, napalm bombs, atomic bombs.

When two atom bombs landed, one in Hiroshima and other in Nagasaki, Japan in 1945, thousands perished in a twinkle of an eye - Hiroshima (80,000), Nagasaki (73,000).

Now look at this statistics: World War II took about 55 million lives (four times casualties of World War I). Yet, all nuclear weapons possessed by superpowers equal six thousand Second World Wars! And nuclear weapons possessed by United States alone can kill every living human on earth today more than 12 times!

So, forget millions that died during world wars (that’s child play). Forget more than 35 million souls that have died since end of world war II in more than 150 wars (that’s a picnic at Beach). Forget over 100 million persons that died in last century alone, from wars and “ethnic cleansing” (that’s women’s war). And do not mind fact that as you read this, about 12 wars are going on around world (like a tea party).

But when a full-scale nuclear cataclysm breaks out, this planet will be in darkness, and by time thick smoke dissipates, you will raise a high five (just in case you still have five fingers), if you survive. Hear Carl Sagan again: “There ‘s no such thing as a winnable nuclear war because its aftermath would be so appalling that survivors would envy dead”.

But just before you choose either to die or survive a nuclear war (not to talk of nuclear winter), let’s see what would happen if nuclear bombs start raining now!

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The scientists are, therefore, saying that world would end just why it began. In this case it may either be a bang, or murmur.

Take first scenario -- inflation theory. If universe began by expansion, and has since been stretching out, believe is that someday, universe will stretch itself out. And by that time, gases sustaining it would have been sucked out, and universe will grow dark, cold and unbearable.

The man on earth will not find it funny. Without sun, vegetation will die, and man starving from hunger and air, unused to such conditions, will start dropping dead, leaving dogs to keep watch.

But they would not even be able to play watchdog for hey would follow their masters soon. Maybe a few polar animals used to surviving in sub zero temperatures may tarry for a while. And follow later.

The second scenario is deflation theory. Some imagine that one day, universe will stop its expansion to outer space, and race back to where it began -- collapse on itself!

Now, imagine all billion stars and galaxies colliding unto themselves, and try to figure out how big fire will be. The fiery furnace will just lick earth’s water in nanoseconds, and life will vanish in great conflagration.

So, life may go either way say scientists -- what a frightening prospect! And it will happen on day that natural forces decide to go mad. And when universe goes bonkers, not even our planet can save us.

In fact, stars have been exploding and colliding with one another in bizarre space, and no news is made of it. And that is because no lives are involved. But on day that earth will freeze or explode in fire, there will be funeral songs and death drums would sound.

There are funerals, though, when there are survivors. On this day, however, there will be no survivors to compose elegies, or sound funeral drums.

Take comfort though. That day may be long in coming.

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About Author:

ARTHUR ZULU, The Most Controversial Writer in World, is author of best - selling book, HOW TO WRITE A BEST-SELLER. Download your copy and FREE excerpt at : http://www.1stbooks.com/bookview/10975. For FREE writing helps, mailto : controversialwriter@yahoo.com