Friday, January 28, 2011

Believe or not to believe

Religion is sometimes taken as a way of escapism. But that real meaning of religion lies in the belief of oneself. Some say God created the world, while others adamantly proclaim that the world was born from a huge star exploding, well its how we look at it that counts. Well the evolution of man is well recorded, but God creating man from dust again is all upon ones belief. You choose to believe or not!
  God ever since the beginning of time itself, has played a major role in many of life activities or was it just the nature conspiring its ploy to deploy a devious method to invoke action among the inhabitants of this planet 3. Again, its upon ones belief. You are the one who chooses to believe in it.
  Coming to religion, i see it as a path to attain enlightenment or meet the creator or provider as we call him. Religion gives us many paths to that one God who looks over us. The rituals imbibed in such a religion are transferred down from the older generations to the younger ones. The younger ones can either take note or choose to ignore these rituals. I for one take part in these rituals as the make a sense of belonging of attachment to oneself and a general goal for humanity to strive for. While a pessimist or atheist will just disregard  such a theory and will disown the very existence of GOD and start a war with the provider. This is the decision they have taken earlier - Believe or not to believe. 
  Again such a decision can only come from within and from oneself. This reaction or decision is one way of expressing oneself about his/ her lifestyle and if one sees the world on a spiritual or metaphysical level or see it though the eyes of science. These two factors conflict in ones mind as both fields provide their escapism and reprieve.
 Thus the onus is one oneself - TO BELIEVE or NOT TO BELIEVE . Hard for the ones who are looking for an answer in life, harder for the conflicting minds and easy for the ones who choose to ignore.!

String Theory

String theory is a developing theory in particle physics that attempts to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity.[1] It is a contender for the theory of everything (TOE), a manner of describing the known fundamental forces and matter in a mathematically complete system. The theory has yet to make testable experimental predictions, which a theory must do in order to be considered a part of science..

String theory mainly posits that the electrons and quarks within an atom are not 0-dimensional objects, but rather 1-dimensional oscillating lines ("strings"). The earliest string model, the bosonic string, incorporated only bosons, although this view developed to the superstring theory, which posits that a connection (a "supersymmetry") exists between bosons and fermions. String theories also require the existence of several extra, unobservable, dimensions to the universe, in addition to the usual four spacetime dimensions.
The theory has its origins in the dual resonance model (1969). Since that time, the term string theory has developed to incorporate any of a group of related superstring theories. Five major string theories were formulated. The main differences among them were the number of dimensions in which the strings developed and their characteristics; all of them appeared to be correct, however. In the mid 1990s a unification of all previous superstring theories, called M-theory, was proposed, which asserted that strings are really 1-dimensional slices of a 2-dimensional membrane vibrating in 11-dimensional space.
As a result of the many properties and principles shared by these approaches (such as theholographic principle), their mutual logical consistency, and the fact that some easily include thestandard model of particle physics, some mathematical physicists (e.g. WittenMaldacena andSusskind) believe that string theory is a step towards the correct fundamental description of nature.[2][3][4][5][unreliable source?] Nevertheless, other prominent physicists (e.g. Feynman andGlashow) have criticized string theory for not providing any quantitative experimental predictions.[6][7]
String theory may just help explain the existence of the world as we know it. But due to lack of accuracy in the theory, scientists have disregarded it in earlier times. But this jewel of a theory may just help solve our understanding of universe