Saturday, May 17, 2014

Conundrum: who can see the rope?

Imagine a situation where a person is trapped deep into a well. For the trapped person, the area of visibility is through the opening of the well's small circle through which one can see the a narrow piece of blue sky. In that situation, the only thing that person can think of to escape is to climb up. That person would put his all his effort to climb up to get freed. There may be other options lying out there just next to the well which are beyond that person's grasp to understand or capture. There could very be a rope placed next to the well that has length to reach the trapped person. But for the trapped person, that won't give any peace or tranquility just because he or she isn't able to see that rope standing deep inside the well. But for the person who may be standing next to the well has the visibility to all the options that are possibly available including that rope. So he can just throw the rope from outside and get the person out of the well.

Now when you reverse the situation, the same person who was seeing all the options from outside, would be stuck with very limited visibility, if trapped deep in to the same well.  

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Shallow thinkers of Science

I am a student of Science and a strong believer that Science has taken the human race to the level where no other creation could ever reach. However that doesn't give one the license to be untruthful or a hypocrite. By watching the Cosmos series of Neil Tyson on FOX channel, I came to this realization that Science is the only discipline in this modern age where one can brag proudly about the fact on how absolutely wrong they were until now.

Claiming the fact that at this very moment they have uncovered a new truth until they get to the next discovery of truth which would sever this "new truth" completely, which paves the way to disapprove this same apparently "absolute truth". The claim that Science continuously evolve and correct itself, is the weapon that's been used blatantly to justify the bragging. While proclaiming the new truth, scientists sometime put a clause that says "all evidence and scientific tests prove that...", which is no less then deceiving as that claim is actually the "all" that they could perceive and hold within the limitation of human cognitive capacity.

Not to discuss the horrendous act when some claims are taken as "new truth" as the "majority of the scientist believes that...." which I saw in natural phenomenon like Global Warming where Statistical data is bend to prove every hypothesis. That turns into a funny and hypocritical stance to justify their ignorance by holding their finite capacity of knowledge processing . I don't believe that all the scientists are like that but the majority of the scientists who are vocal about the majesty of science fall under that category.

Why don't those "shallow thinkers" stop using the word "believe" while referring to science in general and Astrophysics in particular, while in the same account bashing people who hold the faith on the unseen by applying the wisdom about this infinite universe (or multiverse?) and acknowledging the great insignificance of human species?