Mathematics, as I know it, is beautiful by its
very basic unit. The beauty lies in the fact that everything that we see in
today’s world can be described by the help of some certain mathematical results
and formulas. Some of us think that every event in our life is random and
cannot be determined beforehand but some people claim that every event of our
life is predetermined or as they out it “is destined to occur”. The very essence
of this lies in the fact that every macro observation is judged by some simple
underlying principle. Einstein’s theory explains to large amount, the nature of
gravity and gives us to fair amount of accuracy, their trajectories.
Many of us reject even the remote of
possibility of ancient arts of predicting future. Most of them do it without even
giving it a second thought. The first idea of astrology was conceived by
Maharishi Bhrigu. He compiled over 500,000 horoscopes to produce a first book
which gave predictions based on birth date and planetary positions on that
specific time. Judging by the planetary positions we can compare a person’s characteristic
traits with that from the data present in the book. Although most of the
original piece of work is lost but the idea still makes us wonder if it was
ever possible.
If we consider the above observation from
skeptical view we might think that it all just piece of rubbish. What I see is
that character of a person is a dependent variable which depends on independent
variables such as planetary positions, which in turn can be a function of more
complicated variable system. It is more like a mathematical correlation. We see
same observation if look more into some other about theory macro world like big
bang theory, we see that distance of planet it continuously increasing.
Imagining it presents itself with bigger problem. Try imagining it like as if
there is picture and we zoom it, what we find is that every pixel of the image
is stretching itself and thus getting far from every other point. Now imagine
it on bigger scale, on a much bigger scale. Every planet or heavenly body is a
pixel which is getting away from others. And we know zooming is a created by
human with an algorithm. So why can’t this mean that universe is also coded
program. Our understanding is limited but our imagination is not.
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