Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Does God play dice?

Einstein said famously "God doesn't play dice", intending it to be a direct hit on quantum mechanics and Heisenberg's uncertainity principle. This statement "God doesn't play dice" seems so obvious at first look that we almost take it for given. but lets see it this way. what if god is really playing dice with us. assuming that god really exists, in whatever form one may want/believe him to be, ours might be the planet, or universe, for that matter, that is just his game board. he rolls his dice and assigns the numbers 1 to 6 on it to the presence of an electron within the range of "uncertainity", as the lesser mortals know it. still doesn't sound plausible? does to me. looking at the fact that god is "OMNIPOTENT", it does seem like a small chance that he would actually spend his time nudging into matters as insignificant as my maths sessional tests or diego maradona's "hand of god" goal. god would have definitely something better and something more productive to do. i am in complete love with quantum theory, as well as the uncertainity principle. life wud have been dumb and mechanical had we known EVERYTHING to the highest possible precision, and that is the place where quantum theory really comes in, and probability plays its game.
GAME ON GOD!!!!!.........

Monday, February 18, 2008

Stranger than Fiction

I just finished seeing arguably the most amazing movie that i've possibly seen in the near past. its called Stranger Than Fiction. the movie is about a man and his WRIST WATCH that he has been keeping for a time long enough that he himself doesn't know. the hero follows dead strict routine and even counts the number of toothbrush strokes that he makes and has to make every morning(72 times, 36 time sideways and 36 times up and down). it just so happens that he begins to hear a female voice in his head that seems to narrate his whole life, rather than telling him what to do, which is the case with most of the psychiatric patients. he feels that he is a character in his own story that is being narrated by the voice. on the recommendation of a literature professor, he decides to change his lifestyle and do things that he has always wanted to do just to check if that makes things better for him now that he has heard from the voice that he is going to die very soon. he even succeeds in getting the only woman that he "WANTS". the series of events continue and it comes as a gradual realization to the viewer that the hero is, after all, a character in his own story, and the voice that he thinks is narrating the story is of the author of the story herself. once that author understands that what she is about to publish is a real story of a real living being altogether, she decides to make some changes in the story, that although not very well makes sense with the rest of the story, but is nevertheless worth a change. "as harold took a bite of the bavarian sugar cookie, he finally felt that everything is gonna be OK. sometimes when we lose ourselves in fear and despair in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank god for bavarian sugar cookies and fortunately, when there are no cookies we can still find re-assurance of a familiar hand on our cheeks, or kind and loving gesture, of subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort."
a must watch.....