Many of you may think, like I did, that job, money and family bring in a lot of big questions. Well this weekday, I asked myself one of those really big questions: ‘What is the meaning of life’?. The big question seemed to have a profound effect on my thinking process as I soon found myself dusting engineering text books and looking for physical logics in terms of ‘System’, ‘Surrounding’ and ‘Energy’. In this quest to find out the ultimate answer, Newtons third law of motion seemed appropriate: “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.”
Let us suppose throwing a ball is action. The reaction to this action is the displacement of the ball from one point to another. Now if throwing the ball is action, from where does this action initiate? Let us say throwing the ball is a reaction caused by the action of various impulses in the nervous system. Experiments have proved that nervous impulses are a form of electric signals generated by the conscious energy that travel from the generative cells to the receptor cells. Well from the first law of thermodynamics, “Energy can neither be created nor be destroyed”. So the conscious energy derives its state from a universal energy that governs the laws of nature. To put all the above statements in a layman’s term, the universal energy governs the will power of an individual.
The Neuron Impulses (Visualization)
This theory sounds funny. I said the universal energy governs the will power of an individual. If this is true, are we just puppets in the hands of ‘God-knows-who’? How is this possible? If you look at the facts, our will power is responsible for the worst calamities in nature; the over hyped global warming, the rise against corruption in India, the recent euro zone crises and even worst: the downfall of Microsoft! Does the nature governed universal energy try to destroy itself. My theory seems to have some major flaws. For a moment, lets us take the universal energy out of this picture and introduce a new term called entropy. Entropy is defined as the state of randomness. In other words, Entropy is the quality of energy in use.As the Entropy increases, the state of randomness increases which in turn increases the electrical impulses in the nervous system. The electrical impulses raise the level of mental activity and then you know the classic answer of why a blacksmith gets a better sleep than a businessman? So am I concluding that Entropy is an equivalent of the universal energy? Well in short: No. In my understanding, the ability of processing random information and converting them in a structured format requires that certain amount of willful energy which is entropy. Thus the external conditions impose a state of randmoness and hence Entropy is a reaction to the action of the environment.
The Entropy - Impulses System (Visualization)
In short, the environment acts and we react accordingly. Now finally I seem to arrive at a logical conclusion that will never be mailed to the Science Journal.
