Can We Know Everything?

        

 

Humans have acquired a tremendous amount of knowledge so far, from Hadron Collider to Haiku to Hattori. Humans have been learning from nature, discovering astounding facts, and inventing myriads of stuff for millennia.

How have we been acquiring all the knowledge? The obvious answer to this question is, of course, that we've five sense organs, with the help of which we can know our nature better, and our intellectuality, without which we could neither memorize things nor be creative nor form strategies nor engage in critical thinking. If someone wants to know about a cuisine, let's say spaghetti, s/he speculates the structure of the food, touches it, smells it, tastes it to know its features, and learns more by hearing about the food and so on. It's with the best use of sense organs & intelligence that humans have been unearthing mind-boggling discoveries, inventions, formulas, and theories. And of course, we're rigorously working to know about hitherto unknown things that lie before us. Albeit, the more we're working on to understand the universe, the bitterly our limitations are hitting us hard. While walking on the path of knowing 'everything,' the questions arise: Are our sense organs enough to perceive everything that happens around us? Is our brain capable enough to catch every unprecedented knowledge?

Undoubtedly, we, human beings, are the most intellectual creature in the world. We do indeed have better learning capacities than any creature in this world. Our brain helps us to learn about things. But, it's also possible that many things have gone unnoticed. For example, for an amoeba, 'to know everything' is to know how to change its shapes seamlessly, to eat microbes nimbly, and to reproduce. Anything that lies beyond that horizon will be unknown & unnoticed. In the same fashion, are we not like an amoeba in this infinitely complex and confusing universe trying to know 'everything'? 

Because we don't possess every sense organ necessary to sense everything around us, and also because our intellectuality is limited, knowing 'everything' becomes nigh-impossible. Since the Big Bang, everything in the universe is perpetually evolving. Each second holds a paramount significance for anything. The way our earth was isn't the way our earth is. Everything is changing its form. Even our discoveries are becoming wider and wider. Our knowledge has gained surprisingly high stature. Our future has got infinitely many possibilities. Our thought process has changed. Forsooth, in the universe where nothing remains static, knowing 'everything' doesn't hold a significant meaning. Had we had, in 2018, claimed to know about 'everything,' we would have been entirely unknown about COVID. So, knowing 'everything' is damn near impossible. Each entity in this vast universe holds an infinite possibility of the future; therefore, acquiring knowledge will never come to a halt.

What can be the major obstacle in the process of knowing 'everything'? The answer, to my mind, is the way physics works to us. The most popular limitation we've been hearing about is that we can't travel as fast or faster than the speed of light. There are myriad such limitations, overcoming of which is impossible. In a world where we consider 'going to a neighboring planet' a revolution, how can we expect to know everything about billions of billions such astronomical objects? Knowing 'everything' isn't an easy-peasy process. When we ruminate about its horizon, we feel utterly unmotivated. Things get even worse when you know about the quantum world where reality isn't what it seems. 

Another major point of my argument is the vague definition of 'everything.' Does ‘everything’ mean literally everything? Within the horizon of ‘everything’, should the thoughts/psychology of every human be considered? If not, then we always do have something left to know. If yes, then how can we leave the thoughts of every human that has deceased? And, what about the thoughts of animals? About the factor that triggered every creature to do what it does? This is just an example. We do have chiliads of such fields of knowledge. Before setting an unnecessarily overly ambitious goal to know ‘everything,’ we should understand that we do have lots of vague fields of knowledge, either considering or dispelling them open the nasty Pandora’s box.

Can we know everything? NO!

Can we know nothing? NO!

The spectrum between ‘everything’ and ‘nothing’ is so unimaginably large that our knowledge lingers in between those two ends - specifically rather close to the latter.

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Dreams

Dream is technically defined as 'a series of thoughts, image, and situations occurring in a person's mind during sleep'. But it is often described as an ambition or an ideal situation that one wants to be in. Every person has a dream of this own, which he thinks will come true someday and miraculously make his life fanciful and totally different in the way he wants. But for myself, i have very simple dreams unlike many of the people. I have simple dreams but many of them.

Imagine these for a second. How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head? How good is the feeling when you become the reason your mom smiles? How amazing is it to see your dad happy when you starts supporting family? How beautiful is that proud moments when your mom can talk about your achievements with others? Things like these has always been my dreams. I just want these to complete . Like a famous saying by John H Johnson

"Dream small dreams. If you make them too big,

you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. 

If you make small goals and accomplish them, 

it gives you confidence to go on higher goals."

I always had that feeling and i have discussed it with a lot of people. They also wanted it but not hard enough to put their mind and soul for it. They simple just don't prioritize it. They want to earn more money, marry someone and get settled. Yes, I also want to do all of these. But being married after 30 is still beautiful. Starting a family after 35 is still possible. Buying a house after 40 is still a boss move. We shouldn't let people rush us with their own timeline. Why not give our early time to our parents? We know they will now be with us forever. And we should always remember when we are happy with who we are, it won't matter who isn't. This is my personal view on dreams. Yes, I have some long term dreams, but they will slowly be close enough for us to grab by accomplishing many small dreams and more.

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Facebook motivates to write

In this present modern world of great innovation and creativeness, in some way youths think that the most popular website Facebook in one way or the other motivates one to write.  Especially talking about Facebook's chat and the option to post one's status. It is one of the most popular website among the youths in each and every part of the world. Its features itself is quite useful and entertaining for everyone in many ways from exchanging messages and opinions to sharing news. And in this process one tends to write creatively and uniquely to share it among variety of people.

People share news, ideas, jokes, and the messages within each other whether it be friends or some random stranger. Facebook has no boundaries to whom you can meet. There are millions and millions of people there. t is mostly famous for chatting and making friends. People chat with other's by means of written messages, which is one of the best means of written communication. it helps many introverts and shy people to communicate without any difficulties. It motivates them in writing uniquely and presenting their views and ideas without any nervous thoughts. It also makes our grammar and punctuation better as it shows read curly underlines in the wrong parts.

In some war it also helps some people to express their writing skills in the form of comedy or harsh literature. People also have their love ones or crushes in Facebook, they cab have a chat with them. In this process they can express their feelings i creative and comedy ways. It increases their creativeness in one way or the other. It doesn't always have to be the best and correct literary writing, people can make a good writing in various ways . People use various comedies and it is also increasing in Facebook in the form of the meme. People become very creative in these things.

Overall, Facebook can acts as a means to help people increase their individual writing skills. either in the form of the chat or the posts. Here Facebook does give you that chance if you can get it properly. Facebook is totally about writing and sharing it . People can have chats on various topics. Those topics differ from a large range and all of it is in the form of writing. it is all about putting yourself and your ideas, views and messages in the form of words. So, I think it helps people a lit to motivate you to write creatively and uniquely. 

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Science In The Eyes of An Ordinary Person

We, the people of 21st century, have profound knowledge and understanding of the world and universe we are in. After gathering incalculable amount of ideas, theories, prospective, analysis, understandings etc. that our brilliant forefathers, of the world’s history, have given us, we’re at such stage of human civilization that today’s genius minds can make absolute use of those contributions to understand and comprehend the universe & beyond that are still left to be scrutinized.  

All the things that we have attained up to now are nothing but the blessings of science, which is the only best method to understand the way our world/universe is. The word ‘Science’ came from the Latin word “to know”(Wikipedia). Assuredly, science is the study of everything (to know about the world better) and, in order to figure out the truth, we need science. But in the eyes of an ordinary person science is a complex form full of theories and formulas

Well! If not just theories and formulas, then what? The question might arise. But we have answer too (wink). To begin with, to those people making aforementioned statement, I want to assert that “formulas and theories” don’t merely constitute science. Science is NOT a body of knowledge, per se, but a process of determining the truth. Even though science contains theories and formulas, the huge portion of it contains foundational knowledge, rational discourse, educated hypothesis, objective testing, and peer review. It is as the result of this process from which theories and formulas arise. Furthermore, besides ‘theories & laws’ lie profound ruminations, meticulous observations and impeccable experiments. 

We, in science, start with observation, from which we formulate a hypothesis, and then gather empirical data through experiments. If data yields consistent results, we might formulate a law. If we organize all data into an equation or set of postulates, we have a theory. Science needs magnificent mind to think/analyze the observations; it is after going through fruitful rigorous process that we finally get theories/laws.  

All in all, science is really a broad field of knowledge and understanding. Science is the art that explains the working phenomenon of the whole universe. From as small as an atom to as large as galaxies and universe, from beautiful nature to horrifying disasters, from smallest organisms to largest (i.e. whales), from large computers to small phones, science explains all of it, and science is related in all of it. Science is hard, it is fun and it is also easy. For most, it becomes hard when it contains numbers and formulas, it becomes easy when you understand it, and it becomes fun when theories match practice. To get a life and tasting even a morsel of any field is the heaven-like experience. If you, ever in your life, look at the science out of just ‘theories & laws’, it is more beautiful than heavenly angels. My remark to those people thinking science as ‘a compilation of theories and laws’ is that ‘you missed magnificent beauty of science; it’s way lot more than you’re thinking.’ 

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