Identity

            I believe in a world with more peace, more serenity, more understanding, less conflicts. I know the sound the naivety of this belief screams louder than the actual message but I will justify it anyway.  Plato believed that all people desire happiness and they behave otherwise because they do not know which actions produce happiness. This is true, not because I’m assuming but because I know so.

            In school, lecturers call us engineers instead of engineering students. I am not sure if they know this, but the uplifting feeling they leave with me is just awesome. I am aware that they do this because of math, ‘engineers’ is shorter than ‘engineering students’ but hey, they just did. There is a record that only a third of engineering freshmen actually graduate , so when your professor calls you an engineer before you’ve got a certificate you have no choice but to embrace the idea they believe in you. By ‘they’ I mean educators. Well, for me, this feeling keeps me going through the workload and all other stories only engineers can tell.

            I know we live in a world where first impressions can practically determine the kind of house you’ll own. Sad, as it may be, I envision a world where we labeled people based on their ambition or goals in other words. Where we would see a convict, we see a possibly responsible citizen, where we saw a robber we see a man who is simply trying to provide for his family. Imagine that world; I can already see tension released from your face. I have been visualizing this world and it seems like the perfect solution for the turbulent place we call home. 

            People reciprocate how we treat them.  We judge them by their past, they show more of it, we support their future and they will likewise work on it. Most of us instinctively know that.  I’m taking the liberty of assuming Plato was right, for no other reason but the fact that he makes sense.  All people desire happiness, not pleasure, not riches, but happiness. That basically means that all people want the same thing, only that we find it in different things. That being said, all people desire to better themselves in one way or another. Having an identity based on where we are going rather than who we were is a win-win-win situation.

            It takes more than imagination to see the world in a different light. At least, more people would have to be convinced first. But hey a journey is made of small steps. Tap the positive side of people and watch what happens. I guarantee you, it’s good for your health –I mean social health and spiritual health  of course. Good luck!

Entropy

            Entropy: a fascinating Greek word.  Scientifically entropy is the degree of randomness of a system, so a high value of entropy means a large degree of randomness. The table I’m looking at is a great example of the things with high entropy- if you know what I mean.  I’m fascinated by the word mainly because it is the key word of a certain scientific law- the second of thermodynamics. One way to state this law is “During the course of every spontaneous process, the entropy of the universe increases”.  Point taken, the universe loves a little disorder and it is really easy to prove. It is easy or rather spontaneous for a glass to shutter into pieces and physically impossible to glue the pieces back together. I don’t know who postulated this law but I’m sure it was a genius.

            Instead of referring to hypothetical systems I’d rather speak of daily entropy that keeps increasing every second of every minute- the randomness of life. A lot of times I realize just how messed up life can be. I make plans, they fall apart so I make new ones, they fail, I keep planning until the outcome is a completely different version of what I had envisioned. It happens a lot that I have learnt to play games with the universe. I have to come to realize that the universe rewards the player who plays the most.

            There are conflicts today; both interpersonal and intrapersonal because of one reason and you guessed it-entropy. It is really hard to fight the universe considering we found it here. We want peace and it wants to shake things up. That doesn’t mean submitting to randomness; only lord knows how worse this table would look. It requires discipline hard work to put order to this world, to put plans into actions. If plans will still not work out, then I say get creative and join the fun. The universe will have no choice but to support you.

           

Science madness

            “The laws of Physics are the same in every inertial frame of reference.”  Yeah, so?  Isn’t that obvious? … or at least supposed to be obvious? Those were the thoughts on my mind when I read that law. It’s actually the first postulate of the famous theory of relativity by Albert Einstein.  But let’s face it, are obvious statements like these what turns scientists into nerds? I’m confused.  So Newton says that a body won’t move unless a force is acted on it and scientists go on sleepless nights contemplating it.  Hello, I think I knew that since kindergarten!

            Well, since I am one of those nerds who don’t sleep decoding theories of dead men, it’s only fair that I speak in their defense. If that was all to science then it wouldn’t even be a subject, much less a field of study.  If that was all to science then we would just sit around stating that water cools in cold  weather and call ourselves SIRs and that would have been very realistic – sarcastically speaking.  

            When Albert Einstein stated the theory of mass-energy conversion, he stated something that someone had thought about before but was perhaps too afraid to develop it. So, the genie in Albert came not because he knew it all along but because he wasn’t afraid to answer the childhood questions that troubled his mind. Isn’t that what science is all about? Isn’t it about trying to explain the universe in the best way we see fit?  Although we don’t know what is happening to the rest of the universe, we start by explaining ours.

            Out of Einstein’s famous equation E = mc² we can produce electricity from nuclear reactors.  We apply Newton’s law of motion in literally everything – our vehicles, factories, any machine you can think of. That is what physics merged with engineering does. It makes life easier-better.  I could go on forever about what science does but I guess the 21^st generation can do that pretty well.

            It is a stereotype that science is a hard subject and yes it is hard indeed. It is for the minds that won’t sleep unless questions are answered, minds that will make equations out of the obvious, minds that will transform equations to a better life.  It is hard, but listening to the stereotype makes it even harder. Come on, science is as easy as stating that a computer will remain shut down unless I turn it on keeping the number of users constant of course. Well, if you believe that, welcome aboard and join the fun!

Science couldn't explain

What if I told you that scientists are not able to fully describe the nature of light? Well, I’m telling you now, and I’m not very surprised. Even with all the formulas physics could produce, they, like us are still in the maybe zone. They tell us it’s a wave but their little secret isn’t exactly a secret. I was also surprised when I learnt of the concept of wave particle duality. According to this theory, all matter can be either a particle or a wave depending on the property exhibited.  When light is reflected from a surface it is a wave, when it is emitted in small quanta, it is a particle. So, you can now imagine light in small packets and you flying with an actual frequency, real funny. DeBroglie went further to derive a formula that could deduce the wavelength of practically everything.

As much as I’m confused, I’m not shocked. Like light, no one really knows the nature of me. People will try to describe me based on what they see, but the mysterious nature of me isn’t for them to describe. They’ll see me walking and they’ll say I’m just a particle, they’ll see me soaring and you can guess what they’ll say. I know my  journey is yet to unfold, and I’ll travel it alone. No one knows me better than me, so as much as I like opinions, I also like optimism!

Gravity

There is a reason why we don’t get to fly like eagles, and its not just wings, there is a reason why the highest an average male can jump is only up to 19.5 inches high. There is a reason why we are stuck on the surface of the earth and its simple- gravity. According to Newton, Gravity exists between any two bodies in the universe, be it a me and the computer I’m writing on, you and the device you and the device you are reading from, you and a star you have never thought about, the list goes on.  Gravity is a natural force and we’ve become accustomed to it that we don’t notice it.

            When I think of gravity, I think of circumstance.  Like gravity, circumstances are always directed downwards. Most people like to use the metaphor ‘as free as a bird’ and it clearly indicates our love for freedom. No one likes being forced around, it’s the reason there are many conventions to promote freedom. I believe it’s human nature to want to soar, and it’s also very natural to have circumstances blocking the way. There are far too many people who give up on their dreams with the excuse that there was no other option, or that they were so caught up. Well, guess what? It happens to everyone and it doesn’t have to be a hindrance.

            Isaac Newton discovered the universal law of gravitation when the university he was studying (University of Cambridge) was temporarily closed due to plague. I’m sure most people would use this opportunity to chill at home; Newton saw this as an opportunity to answer questions that had for a long time troubled his brain. Just a few months ago I learned that Neil Armstrong- the first man on the moon, learnt piloting lessons even before he knew how to drive a car. That’s what I call the extra leap.

            Rockets are fascinating machines, the only machines so far that can escape the earth’s gravity. They have become our vehicles to the rest of the universe and they don’t do that by submitting to gravity but by using lots and lots of energy to overcome it; the same way we should be overcoming circumstance.  In the long end, it’s the little extra that makes us extraordinary.

             “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher.

Introductions

I love science  and I live life, combine the two and you get Imaculate. Sometimes nature speaks to us in the most direct way there is and as we go about our lives we just don't notice. This blog is all about those encrypted observations and lessons. Can't say enough ,hop along and get amazed by life!!!