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FOOD FOR THOUGHT - GANDHI AMISH HARISH

This article isn't really technologically pertinent per se, but it is one that, on the perusal of which, one's avenues of thought, specifically for technological innovation, are bound to increase.

Macroscopic and Microscopic

Everything is relative: Keep that in mind while reading this article.
People talk about lateral thinking and looking at the big picture but how much is that really done? What I'm trying to point to is the tendency of human beings to define, study and analyse everything from a point of view relative to themselves. Let me jump to example rather jugglewith precept.
Consider that you zoom in on a human being to a cellular level.Say you probe further using an electron microscope to an atomic or subatomic level. You then upgrade your apparatus with a cyclotron and gear and close in on Charm and his buddies. That's it. You cannot go further.Not only does your apparatus constrain you, but so does your imagination and the tendency to keep human logistics of measurement in the back of your mind. Now what guarantee do you have that a quark-size "object" is not a universe on its own, or that there are smaller closed system particles with this property? None.

It could be that there is a universe of massive intricacy where our laws of physics are void. Inter system interaction is non existent. This proposal cannot be disposed or disproved. And if it is, it will be on our terms, with "our" laws, our narrow points of view.

The same arguments can be applied to the universe as we know it. What guarantee do we have that it is not a "quark" sized (with respect to a larger universe) particle of an "atom" of one being of billions on a large "planet" of a solar system, which in turn is a galaxy of many galaxies which compose a universe? None. We could reiterate this paragraph for THIS universe.

Here again man is constrained by his imagination, his apparatus and the velocity of light of distant galaxies which is his only means of studying such galaxies. This article is likely to be discarded as speculative but if it has even hinted to the reader a slight broadening of perspective and thought then its purpose is served. I quote C.V. Raman from the last issue of Short Circuit:

" Great advances in knowledge came through questioning the orthodox view. "

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