How do people get ideas? - walking on the streets, reading a newspaper, sitting under a tree or perhaps watching two people fight? Some of the most amazing things ever discovered owe their presence to the most mundane of instances, the most beautiful theories refer to nothing but the quintessential and the pure. The things we see around us but never contemplate on, it’s amazing how the most brilliant minds look at the world as we all look at it but still make the simplest, the purest things seem beautiful.
The simple instance of you looking at another person means convergence of a fraction of the light in the universe on a speck (the other person) and you looking at him is the set of events that follow. So we can’t perceive a thing if it wasn’t for the presence of this force called light and without our perception, there is no speed hence nothing can be faster than light. Can the theory of relativity be put in more simpler terms than that!
All those equations, all those theories are nothing but an attempt to understand the world, to simplify the dilemma that human life is to find a purpose out of this amorphous life, to clear the haze that our own mind presents us with. So why are so many of us scared of all those ideas. All those philosophical tomes. Trust me they are nothing more than ideas to simplify everything and reduce it to one simple theory. That’s what physicists all over the world have been trying to do, to put everything under one umbrella. The search to simplify the universe and bring it in line with one single idea.
But my question is what if these scientists find that theory. What if they do explain the purpose of the human race? Suddenly all of us know why we are here, suddenly all of us know what to do next. The next day we wake up we know whats coming next. Won’t that take away the essence of life. We as human beings live on hopes and aspirations, we love uncertainty. It drives us ahead, gives us a high, won’t that create more confusion in our minds than anything else? So a theory to simplify the universe will do nothing but create more confusion. Thoughts to ponder.
