4 Oct 2008 @ 14:50, by Shreepal Singh
Is there any law operating in nature that governs its creation or at least its functions? And nature here is meant in its widest scope, which range from inert world of dead and dark matter to highly intelligent human beings on earth and their complex society. If there is one, is it possible to decipher and understand the same? If there is one and we are able to understand it, is there any useful purpose that may be served by the discovery? These are some of the important questions that are of fundamental nature.
In our understanding things, we go by either by the evidence of induction or alternatively reach a conclusion by deduction from a confirmed premise. Nature is so big in dimensions and substance that it is not possible by either induction or deduction to say with certainty that there is one universal law governing its even functions, leave aside its creation.
Despite this colossal difficulty, humans have always been holding that there must such a universal law. Obviously, such a law is beyond our reach, either because the law is supremely complicated one or we are yet not up to the level of mental sophistication to grasp the same. Any way, if there is one and we are able to grasp the same, it is always advantageous to have the same at our disposal.
Any law, whatever it be, enables us to predict the future consequences in a set of given circumstantial parameters. Such prediction, in turn, enables us secure advantage in either of the two ways: if we cannot change the given circumstantial parameters, we can make a change in our choice out of the available set of alternative parameters and thus avoid pitfalls lying hidden in the path of future; or we can bring out a desired result in the consequential future by changing the circumstantial parameters required by the prediction. Therefore, the discovery is advantageous and desirable.
Let us scan the available knowledge that humans possess today to identify a possible mark that may turn out a trail leading forward on the path of discovery of such a universal law. There are two streams of human wisdom, which are opposite to each other, commonly possessed by the two opposite sets of people; one is founded on reason and is called science; and the other is: spiritualism getting its sustaining energy from mysticism.
Science is a self-correcting process of knowing things, because the human reason is fed with each passing day with ever newly discovered data and this reasoned-processing bring ever new results in the form of newer or refined discoveries. Spiritualism is not a self-correcting process; it is validating and revalidating process of a truth that has always been there. Therefore, it is advantageous for us to look and scan both these rival, perhaps complimentary, streams to smell a trail-brazing footprint, which may be dimply recognized today.
In physics we know that things which are fixed to a frame (which may be taken as a reference point) which is moving in relation to another frame (which may be taken as another reference point) possess their own private and peculiar quantum of space (length etc.) and time relative to that another frame. We also know that there are an infinite number of these points of reference in universe and therefore there is equal number of varied quantum of space and time properties for every single thing in universe. This much is known.
But suppose, there are not these two properties, namely, space and time, which a thing possesses but there are three of them: these two and the third one, namely, consciousness! And, then let us apply this very concept of relativity to this fourth item also. In this case also, if there are two frames (which could be taken as reference points) which are not connected to one another, things fixed to each of the two would have their own private and peculiar three properties of space, time and consciousness. In this connection we have to keep in mind two things: firstly, there is nothing in universe that has no space or time or consciousness; that is, every thing in universe has these three properties; and secondly, there are infinite numbers of points in universe which may be taken as reference. When we say that there are infinite numbers of moving frames, which may be taken as reference points, and that things fixed to them have different and private quantum of space, time and consciousness, what do we mean in substance? We mean that if there are things that are separated from one another either in space (or location), or time (past or present) or consciousness (kind of life, at least) or in all these three properties, then those things are in fact fixed to frames that are moving in relation to one another, whether we are able to measure this movement or not. It is so because modern relativity is limited to physical movement of things but in nature there are many more kinds of separation or gradation (and physical movement is only but one of them).
Can we give some practical examples of these differentiated gradations? One well known example is the case of a traveler moving in a rocket with a speed nearing that of light and comparing his watch with the watch on earth, both watch telling different times (at the same time!?). Another example is that of a person living in present and remembering past events; or a person living in present and imagining the future events, in fact both these cases are reverse situations: a person looking from past to present or from present to past. The third example is that of a human being putting himself in the place of, say, a cat. Or, we can putt it conversely, a cat putting itself in the place of a human being. In fact, the consciousness of a cat is a reference point and from that point one can look at human being. The cat’s judgment about humans is as valid as that of humans about a cat, though both these judgments are private and peculiar to the point of reference from which things are judged. Relativity is a tool of understanding of nature, while dialectics is a tool of process of nature.
The origin of every sincere religion is spiritualism. In Christianity there are two opposite forces: Divine and Devil. In Buddhism there are Divine forces and Mara. In Islam there are Divine and Saitan. In Hinduism there are Divine and Evil forces. In all religions these two opposite forces work in opposite directions. It is dialectics. Dialectics is a tool of process of nature.
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