Friday, June 10, 2011

"Don't mistake coincidences for fates" - Eko

I got this when I was driving home on Wednesday night from work.

What if every event in the universe is acting like a loop. Each loop has a circle, or a period. Yes, remember in Physics, a wave has a period T or wavelength lambda which measures the time from one point on the x or y axis to the moment the wave comes back to that same point on the same axis ("the distance over which the wave's shape repeats").



What I want to get to is: an event always repeats itself at some point. For some events we could live long enough to see how it repeats itself, but for some events we don't. And even when we see that happens, we take it for "coincidence".

Let's put it this way. How many events are there in the universe, well let's have it smaller, in this world, on this earth? Small events like you start you car in the morning going to work, you do your laundry, you stroke on the "u" key on your keyboard, you hug goodbye this friend after one party, you drop your phone,.... bigger events like you start a new job, you transfer to another school, you move to another area, you emigrate to another country... bigger events can be anything like an earthquake, war, disaster, ...

Some loops are predictable. Some are obviously not. The diagram above is the sine wave - a very simple wave we all learned in school. But how about more complex waves where the wavelength is much more complicated to be measured or predicted?


The answer to that is: All waves have a wavelength. All waves have a frequency. If we could "zoom out" the graph far enough until we could see the repetition pattern. If events are like waves then all events must have a time span until it repeats again - in a different form. (in a different form because "you can't be in two places at the same time in a river"). 

That also means there is no coincidence. And there is coincidence at the same time. For example, if you meet a new co-worker today and start to work with him/her for a few years. That's no coincidence. But it also is! Why you? why him/her? why this company? why this period of a few years? why this project? Our human minds could only accept logics, but is that real logic? Or a tiny part of a bigger logic that we can not understand, well, not yet.

Another example, how did you meet your spouse / boy friend / girl friend / fiance? What were you guys to each other before that point? Friends perhaps? Before that? Friends of a mutual friend maybe? before that? Strangers. But all the events, small and big, happen to you two in your whole lives, just calculate themselves so accurately and efficiently that you will meet each other at some point where the the final loops intersect. But do all those calculations result in when, where and how you guys will meet? I believe that will depends on how you exercise your free-will in creating events in your lives before the the last two events intersect. If only we could have the ability 'zoom-out' the loops far enough, we could see where they meet. That's when some people have a glimpse of the future, I guess? Nostradamus? Baba Vanga in Bulgaria?  

Fate v.s. Freewill

So is there freewill? Is there fate? Or are there both? It is for you to decide. Until one day science will come to prove this. Science said the earth was flat. It also said time was constant everywhere...

Thank you




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