Friday 28 February 2014

Our Race against Finals... and Time

Howdy, folks! Here we meet again, after the never-ending cycle of day-to-day decisions and fun and for now, studies. This period we are facing, lasting from February end to mid-March, is one hectic one where constant studying brings about boredom and an internal desire to breathe clean, tention-free air again.

One personal interest of mine is philosophy. Drawing conclusions from everyday simple things, like exams (well, not too simple, eh?), leads me to searching for reasons about why certain things happen, and why others don't. Time puzzles me. So, it is these conclusions which makes me appreciate the multi-faceted phenomena, called Life.

When I ponder over the finals during my short mental breaks during studying (which includes blankly staring at the wall), I wonder how Time passed so quickly. Life is a race (not of the kind that Viru Sahastra Buddhi often describes). Life is a sprint, in which we constantly try to win over Time, but we have to lose. But does that make us losers?

We win when we acknowledge the fact that Time is the supreme lord of all and that life has its ups and downs. Triumph lies in the fact that we study our weaknesses and overcome them. Like we do in the exams. Yeah, like that.

Let's now abnegate all these complex possibilities and philosophies of life. Turning back to embrace our race with Time, we finally come to know that this race has an alternate end. The simple theory of travelling faster than the speed of light can make us winners, but some doubt lies in my mind whether we would actually win or not.

If we travel faster than light, we will be doing what most scientific brains around the world refer to as 'time travel'. Just hearing the phrase gives birth to an excitement inside us, doesn't it? I mean, it'd be SO exciting if we could see what will happen in the future. Hehehe.

However, folks, nothing is that easy. It's a full-on race against a champion, remember? Many paradoxes have opposed this awesome idea of time travel. One such paradox is the Grandfather Paradox.

It is a common problem which we may contemplate upon when we think of travelling into the past. What if, what if a person goes back to the past and kills his grandfather? Wouldn't he cease to exist if such a circumstance takes place? This is, one of the most challenging paradoxes ever thought of.

It's these paradoxes that I love to talk about. Keep reading, folks, for my next entry will entertain you as well as boost your knowledge - the paradoxical way!