Experimental science is difficult to comprehend and Chemistry is one of the oldest experiment based science. There are innumerable examples of chemical reactions in our daily life. The chemical reaction between the LPG and the air in the kitchen keeps the flame burning. The flame gives heat energy for cooking and even the food we cook is the end product of several chemical reactions- hydrolysis, oxidation, calcination, disproportionation and decomposition. The air we breathe in, burns carbohydrates and produces energy.  The color of flowers and the taste of fruits is all through a complex chemical reaction. Hundreds of chemical reactions are taking place within our body and in our surroundings all the time. Chemical reactions touch all aspects of our life – food, shelter, clothes, medicines, education, transport and recreation.

What would have been the first chemical reaction that occurred on this earth? What we know from our recent knowledge confirms that life started with a chemical reaction, product of which combined with other elements to create new reactions. Thus initiating a chain of reactions and ultimately after a long span of hit and trial gave the most stable product, humans, which can think for its own stability ( read survival). First chemical reaction performed by humans must have been the creation of fire. So you see everything is related through chemical reactions, one reaction initiating the other and supporting yet another. This world is moving via chemical reactions. We are living in a dynamic world indeed a dynamic world to its very core. Be it atoms, molecules, compounds, bacteria, algae, fungi, plants and vegetation, animals, humans or even the inanimate objects such as stones, walls or buildings, everything is dynamic and is a part of the chemical reaction. Our whole universe can be derived to be a chemical reaction.  The universe started with a big bang and since then is moving in the forward direction.

Scientists have often wondered about the fate of the universe. What is the lifespan of our universe and how is it going to die. Since our universe is chemical, answering this question through chemistry might be helpful. When would a chemical reaction stop? Ask this to yourself and if you have the basic knowledge of thermodynamics, you will find the answer to be extremely easy. Same theory (obviously not in the simple format) can be applied to the universal reaction which we are part of.

When we consider the intricacies of the molecular basis of our lives, we will feel that God is not a physicist,biologist or a mathematician, but is basically a practising chemist who has mastered other physical sciences and used them to perfect His creations.