ABSTRACT

The origin and formation of mineral matter in nature continues to puzzle scientists. How and why the worlds were formed with the underlying universal laws of attraction and repulsion has always lured the intellect of mankind. The physical evolution of matter, which apparently begins in the mineral kingdom, proceeds with an unending impulse to plant, animal, and human kingdoms. The generalities in the formation of matter in the mineral kingdom may perhaps be extrapolated to the formation of subsequent kingdoms during the course of evolution. And perhaps the orbital movement of electrons around a neutron is a mere imitation of the orbital movement of planets around the sun, in accordance with the adage, ‘‘As above, so below.’’ Such generalities concerning cosmogenesis have never failed to inspire the intellect of mankind; they have caused various perspectives and scales of investigation.