Jan Aleksander Piasecki - The Origin of the Universe

Jan Aleksander Piasecki

The time in which Jan A. Piasecki arrived into this world was an epoch without hope for Poland. He was born in the town of Mielec in the western portion of Poland. When he was barely five years old he lost his parents. He was brought up by his grandparents. He attended school in the town of Mielec. After school hours he wandered along the banks of his beloved river Wisloka. It was probably in this beautiful and lonely place that he communicated with Nature and started to acquire his deep insight. It was here he contemplated Nature and pondered over its creation and the Power behind it.

At a later time and distant place his thoughts were developed into his theory, THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE, although he avoided the technical language as much as possible, so that the general public could easily understand it. He read many books and he was mostly interested in the history of his Country, and shared the yearning of his countrymen for freedom, after a century and a half of partition. He also dreamed of the reconstruction of a Poland: pure, just and democratic as she was prior to the acceptance of Christianity.

When he was 16 years old, the war of 1914 erupted. His first thought wasfreedom for his Country!Without any hesitation he joined the Polish Legions under Marshal Jzef Pilsudski, and he was part of the famous FIRST BRIGADE of which to this very day songs are sung in the Land of his fathers.

He was brave but was never offensive. His love of honor was greater than his fear of danger. He did not care about material wealth and was rather altruistic. He respected all people and was in turn respected by them.

In the army he distinguished himself repeatedly, showing great self-discipline. Guided by youthful ardor for the cause of freedom, he persevered with the small army of young defenders, merely children who lacked food and arms, and who were forced to fight for the life of their Country against the huge, well trained and well equipped army of the enemy. And their great spirit saved the Country.

However, the new found freedom for resurrected Poland did not last long because the Blitz-Krieg of September 1, 1939 started a new world conflagration. The Poles again had to shed blood and die for freedom. But this time Jan A. Piasecki, to his regret, was unable to defend his Country.

He left Poland for the U.S.A., in 1921 after having been in Italy, France and other European countries. He wished to see the North American continent: its people and how they live.

The same strength of character and self-discipline that served him in the past directed him to acquire a trade and master the English language. He studied design, and was graduated from designing school and worked as a dress-designer until 1956. At this time he fell ill and moved to the country to regain his health. In the fall of 1966 he died.

His last ten years were productive, devoted to contemplating and writing poetry and gardening.

He had considered all of his work not as a means of making a living but as an art. He also was a great chess player, the only game he respected.

Above all, he had completed this book which I am trying to publish in his name as a memorial to him.

Aniela Piasecki

(his wife)

The universe has always been a mystery to us. It is still an enigma today, despite scientific and technological achievements. As soon as Man became aware of his environment, fear of it thrust him to seek an explanation of it. Throughout the centuries, Man has attempted to make sense of his world and to devise methods of easing the burden of his humanity. The author has made sense of the universe in this thesis. He has provided us with a window looking onto the universe through which we can observe the marvelous workings of Creation.

It may be helpful to the reader before discussing this thesis, to briefly examine the methods of science. This should then place the theory proposed here in a clearer perspective. The scientific method requires observation of Nature and experimentation with it to determine the relationships between the items under test and to relate them mathematically. To illustrate, consider the relationship between pressure and temperature of a gas in a sealed vessel. The higher the temperature, the higher will be the gas pressure of the constant volume of gas. When this relationship is noted, the scientist will test this phenomena over a range of temperatures and the mathematician will incorporate the test results into a mathematical formula. This then becomes an experimental law of Nature and, if the exact conditions of the test are specified, this relationship will hold throughout the universe. Other relationships of this type quickly come to mind, such as the flow of electric currents, reflection and refraction of light, etc. If science were only limited to discovering laws of Nature, we would not be much further ahead today in our knowledge. For science must also answer the question why. Why does Nature behave in this way only and not in any other way? Scientific theories generally provide this answer. A theory usually but not necessarily combines several or many of the laws of Nature, offers an explanation of why Nature behaves as it does in these particular cases, and generally throws in some complex mathematics to go with the explanation. Theories are the ultimate creations of the human mind.

How successful have we been in our quest for understanding through science? Have our scientific theories stood the test of time? Each generation has produced their own theories consistent with experimental evidence of their time. As new investigation is attempted and new evidence accumulated, existing theories are expanded, modified and then abandoned. A theory is discarded because it could not explain new experimental facts or observations. Science is then left in a state of confusion until a new theory is proposed. This is what happened when Newtons theory could not explain the new experimental evidence at the turn of the century and was superseded by Einsteins theory of relativity. Scientific theories have changed and will change as further scientific knowledge is accumulated. Although progress has been made in science, a word of caution is in order. The present state of science does not give us a complete explanation of the universe.

The writer of this essay, The Origin Of The Universe, has approached the enigma of the universe through observation, meditation and logical analysis of the data which he observed in the world around him. His was a philosophical approach, rather than an approach encumbered with mathematical and experimental data. His approach was original, drawn from within himself and from material phenomena. Further, he believed in the consistency of Nature, i.e. what was true of his observations must apply to all Nature and to the whole universe. Yet, can we be aware of any phenomena which cannot be sensed, which the least of us, even a child, can sense? The answer to this is, no. We may see a great deal more by using telescopic and/or other instruments but, if the universe is consistent, then the same laws apply to what we can see and touch and to the world as seen through these instruments.