Theory of All...

Well I was just sitting around doing nothing (which I do quite often nowadays!) and suddenly this thought flashed by...and I tried to analyse its ramifications and was amazed as to how interesting lukkha pondering could be!

It was just this observation that all things in the universe...living and non-living are created, maintained and ultimately transformed(note: transformed, not destroyed!) into something else. This is how matter and energy are conserved and the whole Big system evolves with time. Its rather amusing that even the ancient Aryan/Hindu mythology observes it too. We have Brahma, the Creator; Vishnu, the Protector and Shiva, the Transformer...

As also whats interesting is the attributes given to numerous deities in India, their picturesque descriptions and characteristics...every quality of God has been given a form, and it is this understanding that unites all of them into one single Superpower.

Another interesting phenomena is the behaviour of microsystems. Quantum Mechanics tries to analyse the time evolution of a system, given its initial state and the Hamiltonian. This would imply that even the initial state is crucial for the system's dynamics! Now, we may consider the whole Universe to be one single system and it has a state with millions and billions of parameters and evolves with time so beautifully with stability and grace! What does it say about its own initial conditions ? Though the Hamiltonian is awesome, it does imply that something incredibly great would have made created the initial state of the Universe, that everything is contained in it...even what I write about its own theory. So, even if someone does come with the GUT as they call it, it was inbuilt in the system itself that certain components in it would ultimately guess its own theory correctly!...isn't that a sufficient proof that God does exist ?!

Now, as I think further, I realise the intense desire within man t understand the world around him. Be it a scientist, a poet, an artist or a philosopher...they are all driven by an unknown force to get themselves more acquianted with the place they call their own...only the methods differ ! What would this indicate about the nature of the human species ? It is only humans which have this ability to look around and observe...this inner craving to know everything in a better sense...and this is what makes us all special !

On the weekend I attended a guest lecture by a God Prof. in TIFR who works on String Thoery. And it was so arbit and random to me before he presented it so awesomely. It is indeed vague to represent the Universe with a set of numbers, matrices, tensors and random dimensional spaces. But, it is not what these people do...but why they do it, is what fascinates me to the core.

I could see in his eyes, the joy of a child who stares innocently at everything around him and makes his own convictions about them. This is the spirit of mankind...to observe, analyse and try to understand better...this is what I would like to be continue doing the rest of my life. I am so glad that I got an opportunity to learn Physics and Science in general and got a philosophical heart to complement it...its so arbit and yet so simple and beautiful. Thats how amazing the Universe is!