Thursday, May 31, 2007

Surely Mr Einstein, you must be joking!!

It was Einstein who once said, ‘God doesn’t play dice with the Universe’. He was possibly questioning the notion of randomness as against determinism and was referring the events of nature having a particular cause.

My thoughts on this subject are more on God’s design in human behavior and not exactly on physics. We know that people behave in different ways and I believe something that is unexplainable by ‘laws of general behavior’ drives them to behave so. Leaves room for a lot of assumptions and interpretations. Can’t really put a finger to it and say ‘this is why so & so behaves in a so & so manner’. People have their own self-interest prime in their mind when they deal with issues. And all fundamental nice characteristics that is explained as human, takes a backseat always. I need something for me, so I may even be nice to someone whom I have been mean in the past!! Or I will now be mean to someone who had been nice to me in the past!! This seems to the underlying philosophy of human transactions. Very few people, very few have real altruistic intentions. And to cap it all, many of them are made just out of deceit. And with absolutely no regrets. And what is this if not playing dice??

And the God’s grand design of match making between people, which beats the best of creators, which is He Himself. He never fails to spring a surprise. When you think you just have seen something amazing, He smashes His own record ( dubious , it could be ). You may have someone simply out of the world, with so many endearing qualities, matched up with someone who just doesn’t have the time to realize those qualities in that person, but see it in someone else, who is just maybe a fraction of what the real partner is, often leaving you to wonder what exactly is God’s design. What’s His fun in this relationship? Is He sitting there at the edge of the universe chuckling about these perplexing knots He creates in His story and test the ingenuity of His subjects to untangle those knots.

Who said ‘God doesn’t play dice’. Maybe not with the Universe, but with us He always does. Surely Mr Einstien, you must be joking

1 comment:

sidwho? said...

YOu have read feynman???The title suggests so!
And the Theory on chaos suggests that God not only plays dice, he is often unsure of the result- how else do you explain the superiority of the most unfit and imperfect creatures called homo sapiens??