Dr. Aziz Sidrawi
One of the most terrifying and strange experiments in the history of science, which studied the behavior of rat colonies in times of extravagance and luxury.
This is what the American scientist John Calhoun was searching for the answer in 1973 with his terrifying experiment, which he called the universe and repeated it 25 times, and the result was the same: annihilation.
The word Utopia means an imaginary place where a society lives in ideal conditions as a result of justice, equality, and social and economic living.
Calhoun began his experiment by placing rats in a place he called “Paradise” and provided them with all the resources. In the end, mental illness and abnormalities spread among them, and they ate each other’s flesh, and the mothers killed their children until they all became extinct.
In 1973, John Calhoun published the results of the experiments he conducted in the fifties and sixties and what they would lead to if ideal conditions were available for the organism with overcrowding and the elimination of challenges such as lack of resources, predation, and diseases.
Calhoun removed all the survival challenges that mice could face until he named the place where the mice lived “Paradise.” He then placed a group of 22 male and 22 female mice in a large cage provided with food, water, and the appropriate environment for reproduction.
At first the group flourished, and the population grew rapidly.
After 315 days had passed, despite the plentiful food, constant security, wide space, and everything a simple mouse dreams of, without fear of predation or death from hunger, disturbances began to appear, and mating and reproduction began to decrease radically. When the number of mice reached 600, a hierarchy appeared among them, and what is known as Hikiki Mori. Or the tendency to isolate.
The psychology of the male mice also began to collapse, and as a result, the older mice began to attack the rest of the group, and the female mice abandoned their role in protecting themselves and their young and showed hostility towards the young mice.
The physiology of females changed dramatically to the point of isolation from males and lack of desire to mate. Birth rates fell to the bottom, and at the same time the number of newborn deaths increased dramatically, and all their interest was in sleeping and eating only, and this thing coincided with the emergence of a “new class” of mice. “It is made up of attractive-looking males, meaning they have a healthy external appearance that is attractive enough to a female mouse.”
But this exceptional class of attractive males refused to mate with females, and as more time passed, the birth rate reached 0%, and even marriage completely disappeared among them. Sodomy among “good-looking males” spread greatly, and the phenomenon of rats eating each other also spread despite “Plenty of food and drink.”
The last mouse in the experiment was born two years after it began, and in 1973 all the mice in the Universe 25 experiment died.
The experiment was repeated 25 times, and each time the result was the same: annihilation
