The little red boat
Our painter has almost
finished his painting.
A beautiful sea shore
flooded with the morning light.
A fisherman is pulling in his nets.
The painter stands
with the paintbrush in the hand and
examines his work critically.
With his other hand
he strokes his beard.
He takes two steps back.
He stands with narrowed eyes.
Suddenly his face
brightens.
The phenomenon we
are now
witnessing is clearly more complex.
It is not just the fact that now our system,
i.e. painter - painting - easel - paint - etc.
consists of more chemical elements and
(due to higher mass than the drop) comprises
more (approximately two million times) initial
components of the Cosmos.
If this were only
the case
then we would only
need to attach a few zeros to
the number of the collisions and our admiration
(about the possibility of all these collisions being
predetermined fifteen billion years ago) would "merely"
grow some millions times larger.
But things
are much more complex.
Here we are faced with the
incredibly complex
phenomenon of life.
With his brush he
places a few molecules
of a distinct colour
pigment on a
certain point on the surface of the canvas.
This event, the
fact
that the material
system "painter" affects the
material system "paint - brush - picture" causing
a new arrangement of molecules in space,
should not impress us too much.
The
interaction of the ground with the rain drop,
when the drop finally hits the earth, also causes
a rearrangement of the molecules in space.