In his new book, the author presents to readers extraordinary information, trying to answer the eternal question of all generations of humanity: “Who are we, where do we come from, and where are we going?” and touches on numerous mysteries, riddles, and hypotheses of the universe, outer space, and planet Earth.
Any serious problem has a prehistory. And before acquainting the reader with what prompted the author to take up the pen, a short introduction is necessary.
The amazing, the inexplicable, is the sharpest point in our understanding of the world. Tell me how you interpret a miracle, and I will tell you what you believe in… In religions and mysticism, a miracle is always above man. For a materialist, it may prove incomprehensible today as well, but it disturbs by the very naturalness of its nature, evokes ardent empathy, and calls for knowledge. Yet the attempt to understand is a responsibility.
The world in which we live is complex and diverse, says Academician V. Kaznacheev. It is naive to suppose that it has already been studied and comprehended by man. The world will never be fully known. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that in understanding it we constantly encounter one or another blank spot. There were times when they were carefully bypassed, not noticed at all. Now it is becoming obvious that it is simply impossible to continue ignoring in practical activity a whole range of transcendent problems—if you like, that is unscientific. That is why an attack is required along the entire front of studying the unknown, using all possibilities (even those that at first seem mutually exclusive)…
If I immediately tell the readers of the Question Mark series, whom I am meeting not for the first time, that you have never anywhere and never read or heard what is set forth below, that would be incorrect): surely you have read and heard it. But the way the known facts are grouped and the semantic load they carry in this case—that, in the author’s opinion, is precisely what constitutes surprising and extraordinary information.
In essence, all that I am offering for your attention, dear readers, although it does not run counter to the official data of modern science about the Universe, nevertheless does not fit within the framework of currently existing concepts and overturns ideas about the origin of life and human existence in general…