Tuesday, November 14, 2006

WOW!!!

I think I am really something else!! Probably the greatest thing since toasted bread!!
Hey sorry. Sorry. I can just see you rolling ur eyes and grimacing Hmpph!! Nenapu than pozhapa..niruthunga!!
Neenga ninaikarthu ellam appuram comments section la sollunga. Matter enna na :
I had been thinking a lot about the universe!! (No rolling eyes!!! please). I was as usual engaged in the endeavours of discovering truth and God by pondering over a empty brain. Lot of facial expressions and interesting sounds later, everyone around me totally convinced I was onto solving the Ultimate Question to the ultimate answer to all the truth 42.
(If you havent read the HhGTTG, Go ahead and grab a copy)
Then this hit me! The ultimate law that governs the entire universe was : The law of the minimum energy or minimum resistance. Simply put it states that every process proceeds such that the final state would be achieved with minimum work or takes minimum resistance route to get to the final state among its other ramifications
I was also discussing it with VV who concured with it. I tried to pass it on to everyone who would listen but my audience remained a grand total of one!! (Sigh! The ignorance of mankind!!)
NOW. IN MY MATHS BOOK. I am awed. By myself(ok ok. sorry!!!)
It seems in 1774, the french scientist Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertius put forth a great principle called the "metaphysical principle". Now this principle was universally lauded and applauded and uploaded into most books. It caught my attention today.
It states that God put nature on a shoestring budget. :))) It states that nature always try to do something with the greatest possible economy. "In short, physical laws are a consequence of a principle of economy of means." QT.
An example would be that of the planets assuming a spherical shape as the sphere is the given solid of minimum vsurface area for a given volume.
In this way, many many physical and mathematical laws can be explained and enveloped under one ultimate truth.
Man!!
Sometimes. I do surprise myself.(Pat on the back, spotlights, awards and !@#@$$4 wake up!!)

5 comments:

Prakash G said...

Sphere has the least surface area for given volume. But won't it be economical for planets to have more surface area for the given volume ?.

Meaning we can Argue either way. saving volume is economical or surface area is economical for planet.

Without knowing 'Why', we can not decide on 'What'. [ Take sun revolving earth concept before discovery ]

Vanjula said...

Hey prakash,
The thing is the most economical means is chosen. Say for example, the path around the sun. It is the least distant(shortest) route that can be had for a planet of given mass. Even the distances are set by the minimum potential rule.

Thats the rule. minimal existence. Like soap bubbles to prevent collapse. A sphere is the best shape.

By know what, we can work our way to why. Induction I guess. For why is not known at all. What we have is what.

sounds crappy. but still!!

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