The little man

The word man seems to echo an all powerful being in this modern age. An age that defines the beauty of man, an age that defines the character of man, an age that illustrates the thinking and intelligence of man, an age that answers to the domination of man. Mankind is a defining turn in the history of the earth, and each of the 6 billion of us have played a role shaping it.
Or so we say!!
This time and cosmos is such a gigantic concept that a man in his lifetime would fail to perceive and understand. Just thinking that Himalayas grow at the rate of 1 inch a year should talk about how long it would have been as the earth geology started being formed. Each one of us lives a few 10s of years and nearly 3 generations are made in a century. We ought to be talking of 100s of such centuries for us to understand the real beauty and vastness of this universe.
It has been repeatedly pointed out that man is just a chance accident in evolution, and yet here we are trumpeting that we are the creatures specially designed by god to take care of other beings. Where did we get all this false pretext about our greatness?
The dinosaurs dominated the world for nearly 2 million years, and this "intelligent" man hardly started to live a civilized life for a few thousands of years. There has been and will be so much diversity of life that homosapiens is just one of the billions of its grandeur. Man is not the fastest being, nor is he the most strongest and neither the most flexible and agile. The only amazing advantage he has over all the creatures that have walked this earth is his thinking. We talk of these gifts as talents, something godsend, but think again..ponder over the other facets of gift given to the other being. Striking a gazelle by the tiger seems to be evolutionary advantage that the tiger has in slowly crawling and knowing the exact time to attack his prey. Yet we talk of our purpose, our rights, freedoms as if these were things we invented. These are all a different form by which nature offers us to survive. It is all another way man is being made to survive, this nothing much to pat ones back for.
The cosmos through's out an entirely small picture of man. We talk of light years as if it were a few minutes walk to the grocery shore, but imagine its vastness. The stars we see today, at this current point of time is never there, maybe eaten by a black hole or undergone a supernova explosion. We can hardly see whats at the end of a street, when people are talking of many universes. I heard that the scientists of the apollo when they wanted to take the picture of the entire solar system, found that earth was one small blue dot smaller than the pixel of the monitor.
And admists this vastness of space and time, you and me go on carrying our worldly affairs, and talk of greatness!!

Philosophy and Science

Well I have always wondered, how one could ever think of more than 3 dimensions. It is hard enough to visualize systems in three dimensions, let alone when groups of scientists talk about reality existing in 10 spatial dimension and 1 dimension of time. Well thats the essence of the latest version of the string theory - M theory.

I ponder and ask if this is science, philosophy or fanciful imagination, which man is so good at!! Well it is science, simply because it tries to balance the equations. Some thinkers say that science is more philosophy. Well, I would like to clarify my thoughts on how science and philosophy should and i believe inherently different. Suppose there is an equation y > 10. And some where down the road of measurement one determines y to be 6. So a scientist would quickly jump from where he is pondering and say - lo ! there is an extra variable defining this system . Lets call it 'x'. So x = 10 - y or x = 4. Then he goes on and tries to unearth the qualities of x.

Philosophy does something else. Seeing that there is an x - it starts giving out or tries defining 'x' in a logical or rather imaginative way. It says - 'x' is a map of vector z from the 7th dimension and is the sum of z and its conjugate, without going further to prove them. Well he may be right and the scientist may end up with the same result as the philosopher, but more often than not, these are figments of imagination, which as a philosopher would emphatically quote - " the spirit of truth reins in the heart of all imagination". Well, philosophy is much more deeper and profound subject only lame because it relies on arguments and logic unprovable to many relying on common sense, their sense organs and so on.

But as i venture to unearth how science and philosophy differs, I find subtle indications that all are heading towards the same direction. They both start off as a search for truth, in fact philosophy comes from the greek word - philosophie meaning "Love for Wisdom". It too aims to unravel the mysteries of the universe by asking questions on whether god exists, what is the place of each object in this cosmos, What defines reality and so on. In fact one of the main branches of philosophy is metaphysics - crudely "after physics". Both philosophy and science try to unify this entire cosmos. Science says all physics stop when it will find one energy from which all others are manifested. The science of biology stops when it would discover that very cell from which all life originated. So all also philosophy stops when one discovers the one truth, one god from which all creations are simply different manifestation (well philosophy goes sometimes beyond god and religion, but this is one central topic). Well, if there is so much of similarity where lies the difference or is our perception wrong. Is science a way of philosophy or is philosophy a way of science.

The simpler way out of this mess - philosophy and science has been coexisting from the time of ancient indians and greeks. Let us wait and watch whether both reach the same TRUTH!!

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Well for those who care to read

This is a blog done entirely for and by be...The thoughts penned , rather typed down would make no sense to any thinkers , since individuality is a prerogative of the one who thinks. Tinkering with my mind gives a plethora of subjects ranging from war of the sexes to spontaneous evolution, if the computers of the 50s played need for speed, the addiction of the internet, poverty and pity, dreams and the unreality, the zeroth dimension of reality, the inverse of E = mc2., and the lookout for the spiritual neuron, science of religion, the energy crisis, my college, corruption and many others...

Being new to blogging i do not know who would care to read these blogs...And if it all anyone would comment on these...

Nevertheless this is an attempt by me to compile my thoughts which maketh me!!