Sunday, April 18, 2010

Trapped by Nature

We think that human beings are the smartest animal on this planet and in our endeavor to prove that we are above The Ultimate we make wasteful expenditures like creating the world’s largest and highest energy particle accelerator in Switzerland. Billions of Euros has been pumped by CERN in the Large Hardon Collider (LCH) project which is a disaster for the environment, in the guise of finding the scenario that happened just after the Big Bang.

We understand a bit of physics which present scientists call history and have put under achieves as classical physics. It is much like the beautiful rock music of the sixties and seventies which is also relegated to Rock classics.
It made sense when we were told that apples can only fall down from a tree because it has no wings to fly up, the same reason why people cannot fly without an airplane. Gravity was understandable but anti gravity involved a lot of mathematics that went beyond our Famous Four of add, subtract, multiply and divide.

Fusion hot or cold was not as cool as fusion music and the names of scientists were as complicated as Max Plank, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Einstein (a singular stone) as their theories were. I always thought that Schrödinger’s Cat was a distant relative of a Siamese cat, but never realized why it would be a statistical problem for a cat to live in a box with a radioactive particle.
Einstein deduced a simple formula E= mc² and said that the only way to retain your beauty is not to go through Botox or not a sip from the Holy Grail but to fly faster than the speed of light. That is the way of life, predict something unachievable and you get a Nobel and even if we do fly faster than the speed of light, Steven Spielberg intimidated us the problems we may land up with a series of “Back to Future” movies.

I am not against modern physics, but when you are stuck in Frankfurt for three days in a row because of a volcano which wake up from sleep after a period much longer than Rip Van Winkle took (it went to sleep in 1817), none of our brightest scientists could even visualize that such a thing would happen. Science is not meant for predicting the past; if it is so then the profession of scientist’s is as much as debated as that of soothsayers. It is to predict what may be the consequences of certain events or occurrence of events.

Scientists are also getting media savvy and using nice jargons – the other day I heard a scientist calling the event a “Black Swan’ event. An event which is likely to happen but it is beyond human predicament.
You can do nothing better that watching all the crap in the television while praying to God when he will again be merciful to us.
People, who are trapped and are atheists, should be given the last chance to fly out, because nature is nothing but a reflection of The Ultimate – whether you believe or not.