Life: A physical paradox - Harshit dubey

Realizing the truthfulness of existence is the only goal of physics. Analyzing the events occurring around us by using physical principles or laws is the key practice of physics, which has led to acknowledgement of the most of the things that happen, whether we talk about motion of objects, the flow of electricity or getting heat by a bonfire etc.

But solving the mysteries of life is not that easy as we think.

While there is a great collection of events about which people have accomplished to solve the mysteries, there are many of such which even being around us are not acceptable by physical principles but true experimentally (such events are more than those we are aware about).

These types of events are called paradoxes

going book-ish one can define a paradox by saying: -

" a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true."

I'm not going to talk about the classical paradoxes listed everywhere like "the cat and box paradox” also known as the "Schrodinger cat paradox". I'm just going to talk about the experiences that made me think about this topic.

1. The very first one relates to topic i.e. do we know everything about the daily life we are living.

I mean for example, it is okay that we have laws to prove what is happening in the LED we have in our living room which are based on experimentally observed results, but can we truly say that results we saw implies the very law came out to be ? Most of the people will say YES! why not?! But deep down we all know that the explanation given is the closest to describe the truth happening .

Okay let's talk about another example, we know that the color of something is the light that is reflected by that object , so the question is that is the color of anything is the same it looks to us? why can't we think like this , that the object is covered with a layer of such material which reflects a particular type of color seen by our eyes. It might be possible that the original color and texture is the way we never think of e.g. octopus , it's color and texture changes according to the surrounding but that is totally different from what it truly is.

2. The second one can be a little crazy to think of,

We know that there is a logic behind everything that happens, happened or is going to happen but if everything is a part of the existence even the laws we have then how can we define the true nature of that which is beyond the existence , something that governs the system of existent or non existent by using those laws.

In his lecture the great astrophysicist "Paul Davies “ said to explain the truth of the truth we are going to need laws which are beyond anything that exists .

According to Albert Einstein-

"The most beautiful thing we experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" the quote is enough for explaining the accuracy of the above intuitive question.

Conclusively, life is not what we think we know about it, it is rather the mystery behind every known fact.

"Reality is merely an illusion, albiet a very persistent one".