Some days back in one of the chat sessions with Ketan, got into a discussion about God and what it means to people. Most of the other details of the chat session are sketchy but we did come up with an equivalent of the equation for complex numbers to our understanding of things around us.
Going back to high-school maths complex numbers are written as:
a + bi, where a and b are real numbers called the real part and the imaginary part of the complex number, respectively
Borrowing from Da Vinci Code if we use the same equation:
L = S + AoG
L - Life – which happens to be a complex thing
S - Science / Our understanding of the World we live in
Life = Our Understanding of the World + Acts of God
Acts of God = God * Nature
What I was trying to think of was, how the idea of God must have occurred to Man. To the primitive man without the current understanding which we have, everything must have been a mystery. Why does it rain, why the lightening, the cycle of life, diseases many such things. Not so long ago diseases were seen as a curse by God rather then caused due Virus or Bacteria.
There were (rather are) a lot things which our senses or reason can’t explain to us. That’s why we must have created the idea of God to make sense of the things which can’t be explained by reason or our senses. Just like a mathematician uses an imaginary number "i" to make sense out of his equations, people use god to make sense of the world. Similarly philosophers, religious masters created "God", so that they can make sense of the universe which for now is beyond there comprehension.
What happens as our understanding of things around us increase does the value or complexity of AoG diminish. Interestingly the more questions science answers the more questions it is faced with. For instance once we determined that earth moves around the Sun, we were faced with a bigger problem what is Sun moving around? And that is without even asking why is it moving in first place ;-)
Disclaimer: - The thought process was to fit God in the equation of a complex number. It’s not to say whether God exists or not. On that question I will take refuge in the response to the same question by a philosopher: The question is too complex and life is too short
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3 comments:
I really could not understand what it has to do with a complex number. Is it to do with God's image - Imagination and Imaginary number word path?
Otherwise this seems to be simple equation as
a + b = c ;
AoG has no properties of imaginary numbers as whole
(S1 + AoG1) + (S2 + AoG2) does not go as (S1 + S2) + AoG1 + AoG2
Hmm...interesting way of looking at it...I agree that Life is too short to figure out if GOD is really there, because even if man tries to uncover all truths there will be zillion unknowns still to be uncovered...Laws of physics, quantum mechanics can explain a lot of things that go on in nature, but again many of the theories are really based on some assumptions or facts of life...which get missed in the overall theory...take Newton's law of motion...(now do you say that GOD causes every action to have an equal and opposite reactions???...and Newton just observed it...and from then on we apply this law to everything we do...
the right equation as per ur explaination shud be L=S+Ni where Acts of God =Nature * i (imaginary force the god commands/controls)!!!
This is the day.. me telling u abt maths!! sheesh!!
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