This blog of mine would be a Paradigm shift for the people who have read my previous blog I would like to be a bit serious as I would be talking about some serious stuff in it.
This blog is on my thoughts that I have kept within myself for some time now. I may not be an Einstein who though about relativity nor am I a Newton who asked himself why did the apple fall down. On a normal day I wouldn’t mind the fact that the apple fell down but sitting quietly under a tree with no job in hand and bugged with life I feel I would have had the same feeling too, I am though not taking any credit away from Newton stating this, nor am I trying to say that the laws should be hence forth Sid’s three laws of gravity. All of this was about Newton expressing his curiosity and I want to as well.
I was in 4th standard when my folks sent me to a boarding school in Nainital called Birla Vidya Mandir there we had model a huge one of Nainital and I use to take keen interest in spotting thing in it I use to spot my school in it ,our hostel, our class rooms and yes the model too. The model well that’s what made me think so much, so I would try to spot myself standing in it and then would try to find our school again in it, then the model and my self again and that would go on and on and I would fail to understand to what extent I could spot things within the model, I meant how small .Okay the second thought that use to arise in my mind what if we are in a model and some one is thinking the same about us .imaging the whole universe being inside a box as small as a matchbox !! How small would we be, really small because we haven’t been able to figure out the end of the universe yet. Now how small would an electron be in that tiny box!! Well that’s what I wonder...And what if we were in an electron not a box..?? Small right but I fail to imagine how small ….
The second thing that has troubled me is time. What do we understand by it …? Could never figure out …
” this is what I could find from one of the articles on the net googling ---Two distinct views exist on the meaning of time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence. This is the realist view, to which Isaac Newton subscribed, in which time itself is something that can be measured. A contrasting view is that time is part of the fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects. In this view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects "move through", or that is a "container" for events. This view is in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, in which time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the mental measuring system.”
And then how can time be the same for all, now when I am mentioning all I mean all the things present in this world. This thought had come into my mind when I was observing the weird kind of insects that have a life span of one night .those 12 hours that insect lives would be like 70 years of our life…..may be or may be the seventy years we live would be just a flash for some other thing in this universe. We burst crackers and that particle that go up in the air some reach higher some don’t (“that would be some live longer and some don’t …that’s what I think in my own way”) some explode and become into smaller particles and emit light...The whole thing happens in a flash...and that’s life cycle of a cracker. It would have lived its life going up then exploding and then emitting light...we feel it was a flash but was it the same for that particle..??? Don’t know.
All the examples I have taken are to explain my thoughts and would ask you to not argue over me on Living and Nonliving things. I would like to get an explanation about these things by someone who first understands what I actually mean.
17 comments:
Sid d scientist ;) man reading this is
tooo much to ask from a person like me
but really its a nice work
lemme guess........
u got that model idea after watchin that "cat playin with universe" sequence in Men In Black ??? Ha......I'm just kiddin........i had a hunch u wud come up with this kinda crap someday......
and guess what...i had similar thoughts too wen I was younger
;-)....
so prof. Sid can we infer that :
1. we have superior level of intellect/imagination when we r young
2. people who think alike end up in similar walk of life
(like both of us being as idle as a painted ship on a painted ocean, having nothin to do even after having a job...one ending up writing blog entries and other commenting upon them) :D :P
and yes, since u have very cleverly pointed out that u dont want no shitty criticism about living/non living things...i am not going to give ya any....though I was thinkin of it while reading that cracker claptrap....see.....something similar again....so this postulate supports the second point of the theory listed above
as i said,i have had similar thoughts myself, i will come up with a similar entry of thoughts in my blog too (holy shitballs !!!......similar thoughts again.....now i am damn sure we can start a new world order based on this), so that it can help u and chintan bhai scrutinize me :D
neways......keep up the good work...will save us both from being mothballed :D
Cool. I could never imagine there could be a scientist sitting in some corner of a humourous writer. While reading I felt like I was an entity outside this whole matchbox (I mean multiverse) and looking at the picture that you drew. Amazing.
well..lik'd dis piece of work...gud imagination :
"And what if we were in an electron not a box..?? "
didn't understood much abt 'time theory' though liked chronilcles of insect ;)
Purely for the scientists in both the author and all the other intellectuals who read this blog, here's my two bits.
The whole mind boggling contemplation of what the universe were packed in a matchbox, or an electron, or a dung beetle's arse is based on a false premise. You cannot pack the universe in a real matchbox (if you disagree, try packing two matchboxes in a matchbox, let alone the universe.) You can only pack so much in a fixed volume. Thereafter, you can only pack more matter if you increase the density, but some really good scientists have done equally good studies that limit the density to which you can compress matter. If you really wanted to pack the universe in a matchbox, you are Aishwarya Rai would be a lot closer to each other than she would prefer. So stop worrying, we are not in a matchbox, and certainly not in an electron. :)
The other cool thing is time. The insect who lives for the night (lucky bugger), lives exactly for that time. The night. He is not living 70 years. So his night is not 70 years; its 12 hours. If the insect was really meant to see 70 years of life, he'd have been born a turtle or something. A minute of time is the same for him as for us. Just like a grain of salt is same for us as for the Blue Whale Pacific.
As far as Sir Isaac Newton goes, I think the old man could have let the horses of his imagination run a little wilder. Maybe he should have thought, "Why'd the apple go the Earth? Why'd the Earth not go to the apple?" :)
Interesting blog, though.
~M
hey @madhur your comment is more interesting than my blog.....god one really amazing
@sid, is everyone in your family a scientist ? My college principle was YC Kosta, a NASA scientist. His dad was an ISRO scientist!
@madhur, wat sid is talking about is a vision anyone sitting outside this universe be getting. Explosion of a diwali rocket could be compared to an explosion of big bang. For us it might look like a "BIG" bang but not for external entity.
The stars we see in the sky are actually 100s of light years far from us. So wat we are observing today from earth has actually occured 100s of years back. Nobody knows watz the current state of universe :)
The insect who lives for a night has a relative time. It lives a life in 12 hours which we do in 100 years. Din't you ever feel to have seen and experienced lots of things in a dream which lasted just for a minute or seconds ? Its because the state is different, and time is relative to it. Its same with those 12 hour living insects. An entity outside this universe would be in a different state with a different relative time ;)
well what player is saying is correct ...i just imagined it and that was all ..the match box the diwali rocket...all of it was an example..(@madhur ..would have heard of it for sure bro...)
@player ...well the Kosta you are taking about is a Far ...far ..far............relative of mine ya ppl in my family know him and telling you something he is Far ...far ..far............more intelligent than i can even imagine to be..
Madhur paahji....tussin great ho....!!!
I think u shud make a blog of this comment itslef........
Mr.Talwar....well i second you on that ... but am having mixed feeling is it by any chance for the sole fact that you LOVE LOCALIZATION....!!!!
hmmmmmmm nope......it seems that you, Sid, are not as sharp as your brother ;-)......
As far as your intuitiveness goes, you suck dude. :P
Neways.....for the record, I LOVE LOCALIZATION.......... :-)
and so are YOU going to, keeping in mind your current circumstances :D
P.S. : Madhur paahji, gr8 taan tussin ho hi....sadde vadde veer jo ho........
@player, I totally agree with the rocket being observed from some distant body. It would of course appear as insignificant, if it would appear at all. Pretty much the same as a Supernova say 30,000 light years away. We won't make much of it whenever we get to observe it. I guess a cracker going off in your pocket would appear a bigger event to you that the Supernova.
However, I was not talking about that. And I also understand the indirect implication of visually observing an object light years away - that we are actually peering back in time, though I somehow fail to connect it to the present discussion. What I am saying is that there is no Atlas who holds up the Earth on his shoulders, and no "person" looking at us from a distance. An insect cannot grasp this given its limited mental faculties (if any), whereas we humans with our average IQ of 105 can. (That's one of life's conundrums that escapes me, but we'll put that up for discussion some other time). Sid's amazement stems not from the fact that distant events appear insignificant and nearer ones more so, but from the imaginary "person" (lets call him James, no relation to James Bond) he assumes could be there watching us. He assumes James to be huge, as huge as we may appear to an amoeba. I am disputing that - that that's not true. The is no James watching us, and we are not in his electrons. Once you take the "person" out of the picture, the whole picture seems a lot more plausible and a lot less mind boggling.
About time, I say once again - the insect does not live 100 years in 12 hours. It lives 12 hours in 12 hours. Time for the insect is not relative - it is the same, for we are all in the same universal frame of reference. The insect anyways has no concept of time, it just us. So we look at the insect with the same time reference in mind as we do at ourselves. If you do want to bring in James, then James too looks at both of us within his frame of reference, whatever that may be. The insect lives a short life, the dog longer, the horse longer still, we beat the horse, and the turtle wins the race as always. :)
Anyways, good mental jousting, this.
@vivek talwar, Man you are amazing. You crack me up every time :) Te great taan asi saare ne - Loki duniya'ch vasde wadhere, Pujnabiyaan di shaan wakhri :)
Good Piece of work bro
Never knew the Scientist within ,all i could think was
KEEP WRITING ..
KEEP FIGHTING ..
@VBHV
Its very easy to get fired up, pump up and do something. It needs effort and dedication to keep the fire burning. I think you know what I mean!!
Great :-)
Reading the blog, I see Sid in this whole new Awtaar of a highly spiritual & philosophical person.
Man, can you really contemplate on so many ideas..good going
Or is it just the passing phase between work and no work ;-)
But good to see otherwise restless Sid writing on serious stuff like our existence and its relation to other matter (living/non-living).
as expected..... he has shown the other side of coin which only few,are fmilier with..hats off
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