Life : is it what we think it really is??

Let me begin by asking my readers a very silly question (or is it?) : what is life?

While you ponder over it, let me give you my take on this befuddling topic. Life is the interval between when you are born and when you die. Kind of trivial is it not?? And what we choose to do in this period is what the world will remember us by, as either a trailblazer or a servile being, a sympathetic one or a sadist...all of these adjectives are bound to be attached to each and everyone during some stage of their life and career, and the earlier we manage to set an image about us, the better, since as is said "First impression is the best impression", and also since this will give one a shot in the arm, a dose of confidence if the person has obtained a rave opinion of oneself among everyone on has to interact with.

Today, the attitude is that since a person has got only one life to live, it must be enjoyed to the fullest, completely ignoring their responsibilities to themselves and the society in which they live. A person can enjoy himself or herself if they are also capable of performing what the society expects of them, because if one puts in real effort in one's formative period, then one will be able to handle the most stressful periods in life as if it were a breeze.

This, in some quarters, is considered to be the barest minimum necessity to lead what can be called a "successful life". There are also those people who have done this and over and some even take these people as role models (I think we all know who are being talked about here).

So, it only depends on the individual to decide whether to be a person of repute, someone who everyone looks up to, or just another also-ran in this highly competitive and volatile world, where perfection is the only true benchmark.

I would like to end with this quote I heard somewhere : "Perfection is the only goal; excellence can be excused".

Bleep!! Bleep!!!!

This is a continuation from the previous post. (See I have doubled the number of exclamatory marks in the title.)

Now to seriously discuss the concept of a 'multiverse' and its repercussions on us humans.
So, having got a preliminary idea on the concept of 'multiple universes' and why it was propounded, it is time to ponder over a simple question : is it really for the existence of multiple universes for explaining quantum mechanical phenomena? The answer is, as expected, no.

There is considerable objection to this many-worlds theory, the most integral argument of these stating that all results that may be obtained using the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is equivalent to having multiple experiments that are conducted in a single world with its probability laws governing it, but an important anomaly that arises is when we analyze the events which are probable, but do not occur. So, it appears that this theory is there to stay.

Before we move on to analyzing the anomalous effects in the world that this interpretation has to explain, I would like to give the basic concept underlying this theory : the equations of physics that model the time evolution of systems without embedded observers are sufficient for modeling systems which do contain observers, since there is no observation-triggered wave function collapse which quantum mechanics proposes, in layman's tongue, no event has success or failures that is dependent on whether the event is being observed or not. And the many-worlds interpretation uses this to say that no absolute description of any two events is possible once it is the result of another, leading to relative description of the event. But relative to what? Another universe , of course. And thus came into existence the multiple-universes theory.

Now, let us see what are the various anomalies to which this theory can offer explanations to.
On a macro level, this might well offer an explanation the mystery surrounding the Bermuda triangle, by stating that the series of events that lead to the disappearance of planes and ships are just a fallout from some other universe, where they reach their destination safely (my personal opinion is that it occurs due to some variations in geomagnetism in these regions, about 12 in all, which again can be explained by the many-worlds theory).

There have been reports of seeing wraiths and ghosts throughout human history. One explanation (and the most accepted one) is that the person who reports these incidents is not of sound mental health. But what if it is because of the interacting nature of these multiple universes, at some times, interfering with the other universes. A 'ghost' seen here could be a living person in some other universe. Also closely related to this are the reports of numerous UFO abductions. It could be that these people, by some strange occurrences, been sent of to some other universe (where they would be reported of as 'ghosts'!!), only to return when they feel like, since almost all quantum mechanists feel that there is some connection between human consciousness and the occurrences in the physical world.

Another interesting thing to which this theory can give explanation to is the existence of intuition, on a smaller scale, and extra-sensory perception (ESP), on a larger scale. It could be that the human mind (brain, specifically) is sensitive to the occurrences in the other universes, and based on the occurrences in other universes, the brain is able to calculate the most probable occurrence in our universe.

So, the existence of multiple universe does provide explanations to a lot of things in the world, and if real, can also provide for faster computing experience (by means of 'quantum computing', which is based on this assumption), in a few years.