Is god attainable...random rantings of a confused physicist....

First of all,I shouldn’t be writing this….People of far greater credentials and wisdom than me have tried before me….and have failed….Or have they…forgive me…I am perpetually confused…But since I don’t feel like watching a movie,or sleeping,or studying…or indeed anything worthwile,voila here I go….However I don’t guarantee that I will make much…indeed any sense :-))


Ok, so what makes an unconditional believer like me re evaluate my stance regarding the creator….Several things actually…for example..one thing that really got me thinking was the so called “omnipotent paradox”…..An Omnipotent being is supposed to be capable performing all actions….simple….omni + potent….So what happens when an Omnipotent being performs(or attempts to perform) action that will limit his(forgive the gender bias) omnipotence….Will he succeed??...and thus lose his omnipotence….then he would no longer be omnipotent….Or will he fail….which in essence means that there are actions that our so called “omnipotent being” cannot carry out….and this would indeed destroy the concept of omnipotence….In fact this argument is used by philosophers who are opposed to the concept of a god (well…that’s a sticky statement to make) to falsify the concept of god…as a logical argument against the existence of an omnipotent being….There are still others who merely say that the flaw lies not in the concept…but rather in our understanding of it…Well…I am clueless….quite frankly..
So it seems our friend the philosopher has completely bamboozled us with his counterintuitive arguments…So lets not try to falsify or testify the concept of God….And let us address this concept in a slightly different…but not completely detached point of view….That of a wannabe physicist…:-))…


Since time immemorial (that’s my favorite paragraph starting phrase :-) ) man has been haunted by one question….Yes haunted is the word….That is….WHAT MAKES THE WORLD GO???....Look a bit deeper….it is an attempt at understanding God as we know it (I use it rather than he or she as I am talking of the concept of God rather than God as an entity)…And many a colorful explanation came for this question…One greek philosopher (I don’t remember his name) suggested that it is the love of one body for another that makes the world go :-))…of course …look beyond the obvious funny side…and you will see the first in the long line of concepts that culminated in the concept of a force…Another one I like particularly was given by several philosophers....both greek and vedic….that the world goes by chance…..Of course, a skeptic would dismiss this concept saying that it suggests that all occurrences are random….And yet in a sense isn’t that true?? Dont we see in this concept an ancestor of the quantum theory…If that be true…it would imply that the cornerstone of the revolutionary concept of quantum physics was laid in a world that was supposed to be at the center of the universe….and was supposedly circled by the heavens!!!!....But never mind my interpretations….The crux of the matter is that all these searchers of the “truth” searched God….The absolute truth…what our Vedas called Nirguna Satya …well forgive me for romanticizing this so much.. its in my nature
:-))… So man has made attempts to understand God…at least as we know it.


God has always appeared to be “just beyond the wall”…The key to the “mind of God”…as many would put it….appears to rest crucially on the answer to the Question of questions….one variant of which I mentioned above…and offshoots of this question….The most notable being the question of creation….one that has started to bother physicists a lot of late…The question that can be stated as “what came before before time” or “what came before everything else”….The answer to these interrelated questions and the key to truth always looms large….we seem to be ever closer to it….And yet nature thwarts us each time….In fact at the beginning of the twentieth century, a renowned physicist is said to have a addressed a conference thus “And as you all know, physics will be over within in the next two to three years…”…Of course he was referring to the fact that blackbody radiation was the only problem in physics supposedly left at that time…But this “only” hitch…as we now know it….opened such an immense can of worms that it culminated in quantum theory!!!.... We have since grown wiser…and you seldom hear such rash statements now a days….For man has toiled since the dawn of civilization in quest of truth…and Nature seems to take unbelievable amount of pains to make it tougher for us.. Its like an ocean….the deeper you go…the more you realize that its impenetrably deep….The question beckons us as a mirage would beckon a thirsty traveler…The more the traveler follows the mirage….The thirstier he gets….It is often found that travelers die of thirst at the gates of oasis….Is that the fate of mankind?? Are we going to die off from thirst of knowledge when we are inches away from the finish line??...That is, Is god Finite….just unattainably large??Or is God comparable to the mathematical concept of infinity… that no matter how far we go, We will always be infinitely far away from attainment of God……Or is it like going into an ocean….the deeper you go…the more impenetrable the ocean seems to be…till all of a sudden,the ocean floor pops out of the blue without a warning (that is if you haven’t already become a meal for an obliging shark :-)) )….Who knows….

Only time will tell….or will it??