Wednesday 27 June 2012

Positive or Negative!

Negativity. It does suck. Only if you dwell in it and make your life a misery! People often tend to play down things that they can't handle correctly.

Let's be real, negative possibilities do exist, as good as the chance of a positive outcome. There's uncertainty associated, either way. There's nothing brilliant about being an optimist or pessimist.


It's science. Schrodinger's cat, a thought experiment. And boy, I do love to relate quantum science to real life! Electrons & protons, matter & anti-matter - these are the other ways to make the same point.

In his theory, Schrodinger put a cat in a box. There is some mechanism in the box that may kill the cat or not. There is a lid and we cannot see the cat. After some time, we pose the question, is the cat alive or dead? Schrodinger says the cat must be either alive or dead. A simple case of super-imposed probabilities. People with some interest in Mathematics and Physics will dig upon this.

A 50-50 chance that the cat is alive or dead. Or we can say the cat is both dead and alive at the same time!

I say, you could mourn for the cat or be happy for it, only after you are certain of which of the two events actually took place. Or just be baffled! The curiosity to look inside that box, is the only thought in question, and the only sensible thing to do. You can never know until you know!

Maybe you're a positive person who thinks too much. Maybe you're a negative person hoping against hope. Maybe you're a realist and you can go with the flow, either way!

The perfect case will be that I do hope that the cat is alive, and I do request the people on the other side of the control panel, "Please don't kill it!*" 


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