Saturday, May 16, 2009

The Butterfly Effect


The big question - The Nature governs Science or The Science governs Nature?

The answer to the question would be an "intellectual ambrosia",

and more we try to unearth the mystery more we get into an "intellectual amnesia".

My scientific inclination had persuaded me long back that whatever that occurs in nature is science. But with years passing and inclination diminishing in stupor of enormous irregularities that nature is made of, gave my wits a wistful space....
Couple of years ago............ I came across the phenomenon "Chaos"! Thanks to James Gleick the wonderful author of the even wonderful book, that i revived my interest in natural science!! As Gleick suggests, i've had a whole new way of looking into things as an aftermath of reading book several times! He quoted a wonderful folklore-
"For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost;

For want of a horse, the rider was lost;

For want of a rider, the battle was lost;

For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost."

This presents an apparent analogy and like life, science is a chain of events with points of crisis that could magnify small changes. This is science of irregularities, of randomness, of disarray, of dynamicity, of unpatterned patterns, of crisis points spread almost everywhere. This the most amazing trait of nature as well......


I believe now the unpredictable disarray of all phenomenons can be easily predicted as the butterfly effect comes into play more often then not. Be it the nature of winds, or the pattern of clouds, or the nature of ocean currents, or the pattern of stock market, or the nature of politics we can stamp on surmise that no single trend will repeat alike.


Human behavior for instance follows the same line of unpredictability as one set of incidences or conditions cannot replicate. Social Engeneering (the term that took a great fame in indian elections 09) doesnt reap same fruits on same grounds in different times with different social, biological and psycological factors interplaying.
Money follows the rule of discordance, morals waive alike.

So I say more we try to resolve the complexity we tend to forget the simplicity :) So as Einstein says -
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."

and i would not try to explore the root tip but my view has changed already!!!!