Friday, December 24, 2010

Master Of Time

From the time immemorial, Human race has been fighting a war against time. By the beginning of 21st century, it appears that the war seems to have been conquered. This have been achieved by the progress of immense technological advances. For now! at-least, Humans can call themselves as Master of Time, until unless, Time shows up something extreme, which shakes the very foundations of human civilization, again, as history has shown in the past. Now is the time when it seems that everything is in human control, from the weather to the agriculture, from population to the wild-life and all that which could have been dreamed off in the past. The technology has helped human race immensely in achieving this marvel.
Today, we can plan big projects and hope that they can be completed within the time frame. We can think of billions of dollars in investments in these projects as majority of the work is taken care of by technology. Computers have helped humans to solve the biggest calculations in minimal time frame. We have Super fast cars and bikes to travel hundreds of miles in few hours. We can call our friends and relatives, thousands of miles away and can converse with them for hours discussing small arguments to big projects. This all is achieved only due to human aspiration to conquer the time and achieve everything very shortly and in small time. Today every Human being want his work to be done in brink of a second.

How this all is achieved? Is this an over night work? Definitely, NO. Human Race, from past thousands of civilizations, have improved bit by bit to reach this level of excellence and is still working on it. We have the ability to improve ourselves over the time which is the biggest gift bestowed upon living beings by the Mother Nature. This ability has helped Human race to achieve the goals it has set for itself over thousands of years. Another quality, which helped humans, was to pass on information gathered in their life time to next civilization, which helped in understanding the difficulties and problems of previous civilization and to work on them, to overcome these difficulties and problems.
In the  middle of 20th century, the biggest invention in human history changed everything as how we see the World today. This invention was the transistor chip, a semiconductor device which proved the living cell for the electronics and digital devices of present time. This chip is present everywhere from computers to clocks to calculators to cars to satellites and in almost anything we can see around us. It helped us pay our bills, book our movie tickets, transfer money to our relatives or friends, buy our pizzas in just click of a second. This invention proved our biggest ally in our fight against time.

Today Humans are still fighting with the time to retain their newly earned lordship and this fight is entering a new arena which includes projects like Time Travel and Teleportation to name a few. This dominion can continue only if human race can persist its zeal to conquer Time in all its wars against time. Will the Humans be able to continue as the Masters of Time, is one question which is very difficult to answer with the type of resources available and seeing the past historical records of this conflict.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Is this Mirage?

where am I?
what am I doing ?
why am I doing this ?
why everything is working so perfectly like some computer code running again and again ?
Is this some Matrix created around me ?

These questions and many more like them make me think that Isn't life a mystery. When a person gets born, he starts learning the do's and don'ts of life from very beginning. He should do this, he should never try that. His brain is being programmed according to his environment and he starts behaving like a newly created biological robot. He is being taught to behave like a civilized citizen and never to indulge into anything against his society, culture or nation. No one is ever allowed to think independently or against the customs and norms. The few who do so are out casted and these out casted make a new system in which they behave as creator of the new norms and conditions. In either circumstance, an individual is always a part of some small  or big network which are connected in some way to the one Universal network which seems to be unbreakable.

Who created this Universal Network. Is this came into being after thousands of civilizations or was this present even at the beginning. Who knows or can answer. After all, nobody had seen the Big Bang and what happened after that. These all are assumptions put forward to us to believe. We cannot certify anything completely, with the type of resources we have. These assumptions, which we imbibe in our life, like photosynthesis happen in green leaves, or current is created when there is electro-mechanical motion, seems to be logical with the type of reasoning provided to our programmed brain. But why these things happen, are all assumptions. This Network seems to be so perfect that it has left nothing open. Everything is so seamlessly stitched together like a work of a Super Natural Genius.

But who is this genius whom our programmed brains call GOD or Creator. And why he created all this. What was and is the purpose behind all this. Is this network some sort of research lab, where some Mega scale biological experiment is running? Who knows, but there is off-course an anomaly to this network which may prove fatal for it one day and may bring it down some day. It is the power to question and to find answers, despite of being slave to this network. Or is this reasoning, also a part of this Mirage where everything seems to be so perfectly running like a computer code running again and again.