God's equations

There is a theory of everything. I want to believe so. It has always been the holy grail for science, philosophy and religion. This divine trinity seeked a common objective, with their own special means. “Unification”. It is something that has intrigued some of the most eminent minds till date. It made Einstein die an unhappy man. His last years were spent in a futile effort to unify the basic forces of the physical world. Humans have sought it ever since the rise of independent thinking. By Independent thinking I mean to think about something that may seem irrelevant to you. It is like thinking about "why the apple fell down to my head!” or "Why the hell did the chicken cross the road", etc etc etc..

I love physics. It is my first love. I cannot help elaborating a bit about all this fuss on unification and physics. I love writing this part, but I will try to keep it short! I am afraid no one will read any further if I plan to go into all the details..

In simple unification is all about finding a remedy for the wired fact that we use two entirely different theories to describe the same world we live in - The theory of Relativity and the Uncertainty principle. The first is used very accurately to describe and predict the big stuff, the macro thingy, the universe, stars, the cosmos and things like that. And it did its job perfectly so far. It is simply based on the belief that “God doesn’t play dice”! Everything is according to plan and works as the equations predict.

The theory of relativity fails totally as we go into the micro level; that is as we try to understand what happens in the small stuff, the atoms, sub atoms, and at the most subatomic level. Here, it is, all chaos. “God seems to play dice there”. Nothing is as it seems. Things appear and disappear from nowhere. There is no existence, but only chances of existences. Einstein’s equations fail miserably, they doesn't make sense any more. The uncertainty principle comes for the rescue here. It describes this tiny world pretty well. Does that mean Einstein was wrong? Not really! This uncertainty theory breaks down and fails miserably when we go to a cosmic scale.

Both the theories are right and wrong in the same time. These theories describe our single world, and they are a constant fight with each other. This is not right; there should be something wrong, there should be something that we have missed Completely. If we do manage to find that something, we can have a theory! A simple, beautiful and elegant theory to describe everything imaginable in the universe. The very existence of such a theory is the source of much controversy now.

Here, at this point, we see science and philosophy coming together. Look again, the Religion, which is not at very good terms with either science or philosophy, also comes closer. They all seem to agree on the question now. They all need the same thing. But where is the answer! .. not yet.. u’ve got to wait!

A theory for everything does not have any direct impact on our lives. But, its relevance as an event horizon of human curiosity is undeniable. It brings together everything that had been at a cross roads for centuries. Scientists’ do not like philosophy as it has no theoretical support, philosophers hate religion and religion hates science as it demeans their sacred often! These altercations are very evident all around us. Strangely all of them seem to be looking for the same thing. Is it an equation as put by science? Is it a concept? Is it a person or a being like the symbols given to us by religion? They don’t seem know what it is actually.

Physicists say it is a single equation to describe the universe, so simple that it can be printed on a 'T-shirt'! Philosophers say it is something so fantastic that, it cannot be described in any simple or complex way, it is quite unfathomable by human imagination. Religion chooses to call it 'God'....


Some time back I happened to read a highly ridiculed and controversial mail by Einstein. Apparently, just a few months before his death he sent a mail to a philosopher friend of his. In that he has put forth what may be the results of his last futile attempts on the theory of unification. I wonder if he really was trying to unify the basic forces of physics, or whether he is trying to bond Science, Philosophy and Religion in an awesome 3 some! He had put in God as the”Product of Human weakness". It is a very dangerous statement. He could lose many of his religious admirers. His reputation was at stake. If it were to be said a few centuries ago he could have been be doomed for sacrilege. Why would he do that?!!.. The consequences are not that hard to imagine. No one would have dared to call him dumb for sure! May be he did not feel the need to bother answering dumb people in his final days. The matter has caused some problems in the 'higher' circles as the Internet dudes say. Though the entire content of the letter has not been made public (If only I had a few million pounds, I would gladly have spent it on this and told you guys! Seriously- Any donations will be totally appreciated!)

"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious. --Albert Einstein". Could not have agreed more. Think about it..

He calls it subtle and simple as science mentioned the ‘final equation’, intangible as the philosophers called it, and inexplicable as the Religion calls it. 'God works in mysterious ways’!! Just Venerate it.. Don’t accuse each other in its name. Don’t kill for it. Just admire and be scared, that there is something watching over... God bless..

The Three Miracles

1. The beginning

Inertia [in-ur-shuh, i-nur-]: A Resistance or disinclination towards motion, action, or change..

That inertia is something that he seem to enjoy a lot. It may be because he is just too lazy to be inclined towards anything, a motion/an action/a change. But he appears to be resisting any such change! If he was lazy why should he resist a change? He could have moved along very well. But he is resisting that too, he has rejected everything, he didn’t seem to care, he is just standing there.. But why!

Before we try to find out why is he at that state, the state of inertia, lets see what we are doing now. We look at him with a strange sense of disapprobation, a sense of insecurity or may be a sense of fear arising from our total ignorance on his intentions. We expect him to move, to run with the flow, to follow the call that we believe to follow.. Is that because we actually cared what would happen to him? No! We just feel uncomfortable by the sight of him standing there quiet, pacified, and silent while we all are running fast to keep up with something for reasons we do not know.

Ha.. There you are..You said it!..We don’t know why we all are running! Some might know what are they running after but even them doesn’t know why do they do what they do! Still we believe that is what is normal. To run in that direction where everybody else seems to run. It has to be the right direction, because all these people cannot be wrong. Some one should be having an idea, and they will be the one leading the run. Sadly that is what every one thought, even the guy up in the front!

But why the hell is he standing out there alone? Why does he seem not to be bothered a bit by all these mayhem? Again the same questions that make all of us uncomfortable where asked. So let us do the easy job. Let us call him vile names. Let as brand him to be a crazy one, the loser, the misanthrope. He is definitely out of his mind. So let us leave him here. Let him stay there looking up into the empty skies above. May be he is dead, may be he is deaf, may be he is blind, may be he is blind deaf and dead! Why should we even care...



2. An Angel in misery:

"Look.. a girl!"... A little girl in a pretty white dress, with a small wooden doll in her hand, fighting with her mommy. She is trying to free herself from her mom's hand and her mom is trying to pull her back into the crowd with all her might. Shall we help the child or the mom! (The speaker stood wondering!) At last the girl freed herself from her mom. The crowd kept moving forward rapidly and along did the mom after a moment of hesitation - whether to follow her child or the crowd. The public opinion won!

The forsaken little girl is walking through the gravelly walkway, along the dangerous cliff, trembling down now and then but never failing to pick herself up and move on. Where is she going? The crowd with her mom has gone too far ahead, she may not be able to catch up with them anyway! It’s sad, but let us ignore that child too. We got our business to be taken care of. Anyway she is going to die in the desert, in the heat, in the rocks. God help her. We need to move on- to catch up.

"Hey man do u see that?..U see that girl who ran away from her mom? She is walking towards that maniac standing there on that cliff! She is definitely an insolent kid. Let us see what happens to her! Let us stand and watch. This is going to be fun!"

Yes the girl was walking towards him. She fell down ever now and then, but she is getting closer to the cliff. She climbed the mammoth rock on which he stood. Her wooden doll fell off into the abyss. Oh God! Save the kid! But surprisingly she was not much bothered by the loss of her toy.. She kept moving towards him. At last she reached where he stood. She took his hand in her little hand, which she used to hold her doll tight to her heart. She was looking curiously at his face. And then he moved.

He looked down and smiled. He was alive, he was not deaf, and he was not blind! His inertia got shattered..



3. The sun and three miracles:

The man turned to the little girl and smiled. She is smiling too. No words seem to be spoken. He took her in his arms and wiped the dirt and blood from her little arms and legs. Both of them stood there, looking into the empty sky’s above. They just stayed there and nothing happened. “Hell with them..Lets move on..”

The crowd they ran fast to keep up with the sun. Eventually they all gave up. The sun is moving too fast, it doesn’t seem to tire or rest. All the people in front of them seem to be tired. They all fell down on the ground. They all looked for the leader and he was nowhere to be seen. Then they realized there was no one leading them. They were all lead by their own beliefs.. Blind convictions.. And now.. Now what! Where is the sun they were chasing? It is gone.. Its dark all around! Now what do we do. All that we knew was to run and keep running and try to get in front of the fat ass ahead of us. Again.. Now What! Don’t tell me we ran all these while for nothing! Holy cow.. we seems to be screwed.. proper screwed!

As they lay down thinking all these, the earth turned around. After all the sun was not actually moving at all. It was the ground, which was turning made the sun appear to move! The world turned around and the sun rouse behind.. Just as it had always been!..



4. The story seems to end..

He was standing on the same cliff. The little girl was fast asleep in his arms. He woke her up with a gentle kiss. They both saw the beauty of the rising sun. He smiled. Her eyes, they where big and shiny and pretty. He saw the sun reflect in her wide blue eyes. It was the most beautiful sight he had ever seen. It gave him his purpose, his salvation. He was happy.

The little girl was surprised by what she saw when she opened her eyes. She hugged him tight and smiled. She was happy too. Nothing bothered her then. She was closer to heaven than he was. They both stood there staring up. The sky was not empty. The sky had the glitter of the stars fading away, it was made of gold, and it had the mild comforting sun shining in its corner.

A song was heard from above ..

"And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death"

- Pink Floyd

All we had to do was to find the right spot and stand there..Just holding the right ground once u had found it.. All that we should have worked for is to find the place with the best view. We shouldn’t have tried to catch up with something, which we did not understand. Our mistake. Realized too late.. Said the speaker, shorter in breath- one step closer to his death.. And then he went down and died..

"Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells."