Thursday, November 12, 2009

Scientuality


You know when they say "Don't worry, God will take care of everything."
You know when they say "What you get is solely in your own hands."
Well, 'they' are saying the same thing. I had a very amusing epiphany the other day. You know what made me have it? Believe it or not, it was a class of Advanced mechanics of solids (pathetic slogging mechanical engineers of BITS Pilani would know better here). So, here it comes... a little bit of hardcore science with the twist of spirituality and Freudian psychology.
The science of it:
There is this awesome theorem called the Castigliano theorem. (If you've heard of it before, welcome to the bro-hood of geeks.) It basically helps one to find the deflection in a particular part of a body(not necessarily that of a super-model...lol) due to a particular force acting on it. (You can't explain this in a rougher manner) Well, now if you intend to find the deflection at a point where there is no actual force acting, to solve and find out the overall deflection there, you will have to assume a fictitious there and calculate. Finally when you arrive at the solution containing the aforementioned force, you'll have to nullify it to get the actual answer to your problem.
Now, here is the beautiful analogy that struck me.
(The life of it:)
In life, if you desire something (affluence, influence, happiness etc.), you will have to put some effort for it. You will be consciously and sub-consciously conceiving/accomplishing it. Now there will be this instance when taking responsibility for each and every action of yours, each and every effort of yours, consciously, becomes very cumbersome. So, then, you tend to attribute some of the flaws etc. to unseen forces like luck and some of the right-doings to other unseen forces like God. The body here would be the cosmos... the fictitious force would be the unseen factors like the ones I just mentioned... the deflection would be the end result or the outcome of your efforts... I think you got what I mean.
Notes:
The fictitious force is absolutely necessary and has its own importance. Never neglect it.
Do not forget to nullify the force in the end (but yet do respect it) and don't blame it for wrong 'deflections' (coz you are the actual force responsible for them)
You won't find the fictitious force only in temples/churches/mosques etc. Reflect, focus and concentrate... you can find it anywhere, at anytime from/in anyone.


I bow to all the fictitious forces around. Hail scientuality...

4 comments:

  1. great analogy, but i will add that the fictitious force in the real world is a complex number. there is a real part and the imaginary part. The real part has to be analysed so that you don't run around in circles....
    ------ Sri Harsha Mudivarti

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  2. Awesome stuff dude!!!

    But one thing.. im subject to correction here..
    The fictitous force is just one way of solving the problem. Its for a solver who doesn't have the methods/ability to solve it without imagining the force. What if i say that this method is primitive and its time we found better "more realistic" methods without "imagining things" (and i dare say i have partially achieved this) coz u cant end up being handicapped by the inability for long.. that was deviced by some intelligent guys(Castigliano i s'pose) to help us start moving in the right direction.. now its time to move on, into reality.

    It seems most of the solvers are getting too carried away and forgetting that it was a convenience not a necessity (and not the truth to say the least)

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  3. Very true and plausible. I'll start reflecting on this sure.

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