Thursday 5 April 2012

The reinvented 'Theory of Relativity'

It happens so, that I had been in certain circumstances & through certain series of events that I was about to get into a shell once again then things have taken an abrupt turn. It is yet to reveal how this turn turns out. But I'm less bothered now.

First, I watched a movie called ‘The Time Machine’ based on H. G. Wells’ novel. Incidentally I've seen both the versions of the movie. The movie takes place at the same location travelling through over 800,000 years of time. It depicts how the conditions change over the time. How the behaviours of people change & yet all the problems remain almost same. How the same solutions can be applied to evolve again & how irrelevant all the years of evolution has been as conditions would be pretty much same even 800,000 years later.

Second, thanks to one of my senior colleagues I read a short story called ‘विदुषक’ by ‘जी.ए.कुलकर्णी’. A mind boggling piece of literature! This tells you about how the absolute truth can be so much different than what you thought you knew. Everyone is living in one’s own universe; one might be very true to oneself and would be following all the rules that are proven by time & act accordingly, but that may be millions of light-years away from the absolute truth & would not fit in the scheme of things at all. How one would be so correct & so satisfied with one’s life, decisions & actions, only to know the real truth as a rude shock to the core of one’s belief & wisdom. Things might be falling in place just like a straightforward mathematical equation only to realize that the balancing of equation was a mere coincidence & there was either a completely different scheme of things or no scheme at all.

Every now & then, the Brownian motion proves to be the only rule. If you see closely enough, every particle by itself is following all the basic rules of physics like inertia or Newton’s laws of motion just like a well oiled mechanism, but on a larger level, all the outcomes are so much dependent on the other particles & so much random if you consider the scheme of things or the lack of it.

So the conclusion is, stop worrying about the things.

तात्पर्याच खर कौतुक ते हेच! त्याचा मूळ कथेशी संबंध असलाच पाहिजे असा काही दंडक नाही. ते स्त्रीच्या कटेवरील बालकासारखे असते. ते तिचेच अपत्य असले पाहिजे असे नाही.