Octavarium

Though lately but this thought finally hit my head like a machine gun. It may seem strange to describe but did you ever notice everything we do, all kind of human behaviors, they all use the same laws that apply to inanimate objects. I've been watching the movie Interstellar for quite a number of times. The last time I did (which was a few days back) made me think about the physical significance of Murphy's Law. It says 'anything that can go wrong, will eventually go wrong'.
And I don't know if you noticed it or not but ironically in the end of the movie somehow it was proved. Cooper said anything that could ever possibly happen in all of the history of the universe, will happen, even say it at some point in the fifth dimension. Which actually did.

Murphy's law is explained as something which is associated with phenomenon of selective memory. But is it? If you ask me I would say there's something ontological about it. It exists because of universe's tendency to create chaos. It is always easy to disorganise a system than to organise it. The more complex it is, the more it tends to disrupt.

Another interesting fact I found is Murphy law's direct relation with the fundamental laws of physics and probability. What actually do you mean by the term 'bad luck'? Most will say it as an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes or an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate. Malarkey. It is nothing but one's vague idea which comes because we don't understand or aren't aware about the natural laws of physics that are in effect at that time.
(Here are few examples I tried to corelate. Don't know if they rightly fit it. Apologies if they don't. I'm just stepping into the shoes!)

The simplest of all examples that has nearly happened to most of us : Why does a toast always falls butter side down? If you're asked what is the probability of a toast falling butter side up and down; for logical reason most will say the chances will be fifty - fifty. But is it? When something like a piece of toast falls from a table it's behaviour isn't random. Speaking in a logical tone the rate of spin is always controlled by laws of physics. It is determined by the force of gravity. So isn't it possible the rate of spin makes sure that the toast lands butter side down mostly all the time?
( Example 2 ) : heard this term weather man? Imagine it's been raining for like a week and your weather man guy says that he thinks it is going to be sunny the next day. So is it an unreasonable statement? Well... no. Let's talk logical once again. Clouds move and they're of limited size. So if it's raining for a week it's likely clouds and rain will end soon. In other words, sunny day is more likely to occur after the seventh day of rain than to first.
(Example 3) : I doubt again everyone atleast once have faced this kind of situation; coming across lines which always moves the slowlest in supermarkets or malls. Imagine you're in a supermarket and you've to make a line in the counter. Now imagine there are five lines and each of those appears to be a same length. Now it's obvious that you'll bring out some of that Sherlock Holmes inside you. You'll anticipate which one among the five lines will move faster. This is where bad luck doesn't, simple probabilistic theory comes into picture. What are the chances that you've chosen the fastest of five lines? It will always be 1/ N (N = number of lines) which in this case will be 1/5. Which means it's just 20% chances that you're standing in the fastest moving line.

Other examples which we can relate with Murphy's law are gambling, rolling of dice etc. What I meant by using these examples is events of life history have changing probabilities of certain events occurring over time. Also again saying Murphy's law isn't just some form of badluck. There are solid and scientific explanations for every events.

What do we need to transpose ourselves to other side of universe? A starry night, a steaming warm cup of tea, some good music and solitude (for me these atleast are). And then let the universe unwind and unfold herself. We really didn't realize how impermanent we are. Ever thought what is our body made of? Where did they originate? They actually are remnants of stars and massive explosions in the galaxies. All the material in our bodies originates with that residual stardust.
Stars are like nuclear reactors. They take a fuel and convert hydrogen into other elements. When stars get to the end of their lives, they swell up and fall together again, throwing off their outer layers. If a star is heavy enough, it will explode in a supernova. So most of the material that we're made of comes out of dying stars. And those stellar explosions continue. We have stuff in us as old as the universe, and then some stuff that landed here maybe only a hundred years ago. And all of that mixes in our bodies. We indeed are one of the most beautiful creation of universe.

Okay third thing I'm gonna discuss is something I wondered after reading a few chapters of 'On Intelligence' by J. Hawkins. There he tried to explain the complexity of human brain. Brains as network of city roads and streets. Are there many roads? Yes. Are they of infinite kinds and types? Yes. Do they intersect in numerous ways, creating infinite number of combinations? Well yes. But were they always this complex from the beginning or they were made to?
Now you'll have to refresh and go a little down to your memory lane, somewhere where you started learning about classic physics and quantum physics. Speaking about classic physics (physics that existed long before Planck's discoveries) it always states energy, variables and actions vary continously. Subject that can stand all by itself. One which is sees the world as objective reality. A world with a definite state of existence independent of whether we observe it or not. Whereas quantum physical or mechanics always needs classic physics as it's foundation where reality represent events themselves and not by the probability of their occurrence. Where the actual state of existence depends on how we observe and what we choose to observe.
What I'm trying to say is our consciousness and these two theories of physics are somehow directly proportional to one another. Our brains though cannot change the reality but can strongly affect the chance that each of the possible actualities permitted by quantum mechanics is the one we do in fact observe, in a way that quantum theory itself cannot predict. For this we could just take the simplest of all examples, Young's double slit experiment (where quantum particles like electrons or tiny charged particles undergo diffraction when a stream of them passes through the two slits, producing an interference pattern).
Now suppose that the quantum particles are sent through the slits one by one, and their arrival at the screen is likewise seen one by one. Now there is apparently nothing for each particle to interfere with along its route. Yet the implication seems to be that each particle passes simultaneously through both slits and interferes with itself. But here is where things get fishy. If we place a detector inside or just behind one slit, we can find out whether any given particle goes through it or not. In that case, however, the interference vanishes.
Simply by observing a particle's path, even if that observation should not disturb the particle's motion, we change the outcome. These possibilities show just how strangely quantum theory forces us to think and how they might be needed to fully understand how the brain works.

I know things are getting arcane right now but this is how complex our brains are. It's like a moebuis strip (formed by taking a long rectangular strip of paper and pasting its two ends together after giving one a half twist). We covers miles discovering, inventing, drilling millions of ideas but in the end all the thoughts somewhere will coincide and will return to its original position. Like a Newton's cradles our ideas work. One thoughts' action leads to the other. Now I can justify we are trapped inside an 'OCTAVARIUM' : a full circle, which begins and ends the same.

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Nice one mam,
BTW this is one of the most complicated article that I ever read
But very knowledgious too.
The main fact is the writing method,
Where you explained the actual
Thing by relating them with "films",
"Stories"and other daily life activities ,
Which makes easy to understand the fact.