Monday, February 7, 2011

Of murphy,chaos,butterflies and dominos.

It's inbuilt in human nature to get amused by anything new he came across which is either very bizarre ,weird and eye-catching or is pretty simple ,obvious ,daily experienced but remained un-noticed generally.
Ever heard of any theories or concepts remotely related to the title.Well I bet some of my able readers must have got an idea what i'm talking about.Let's start with a simple one

Murphy's law - It says -"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong".
Does that ever happened to you?.It's not just a coincidence.There are whole bunch of laws based on it.
These laws are distributed in to various categories ,each having its own texture.
Some more of them are

  • The first myth of management is that is exists.
  • Hard disks are always full.It is futile to try to get more disk space. Data expands to fill any void.
  • When any instrument is dropped, it will roll into the least accessible corner.
  • If you're running late the bus will be too.
  • Things get worse under pressure.
  • Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.

You can go through them all at http://www.murphys-laws.com/

Chaos theory-Well this one needs little thinking.. It says "small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for chaotic systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general".
It has wide applications in many scientific disciplines.The most commonest example of it is the Butterfly effect.Well many of you must have watched the movie and its two sequels.. and if you didn't its my recommendation to have a rendezvous with it.
The phrase "butterfly effect" refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events.
More simple example can be taken off a ball at the top of a mountain which can roll down in any possible direction based on any change in its initial conditions.
The big concept of time travel can also be related to it where small minor event change in past can alter future outcomes drastically!!

Domino effect-According to it " a chain reaction can be initiated when a small change causes a similar change nearby which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence."
A real life example of it can be observed in tumbling of bicycle in a stand when a small push is given to the first one .. 

I wanted to add one more theory in this post that was String theory aka "The Theory of Everything".It is something which is highly debatable with its concepts of matter consisting of strings and introduction to 11 dimensions.It is believed  that Einstein in his last days was busy formulating the principles of this theory .Many research work is currently performed on this subject , notably by Prof.Stephen Hawking.


  
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Its enough for now.. have a happy valentine week ahead,


Good bye
Sid.

2 comments:

  1. Amazing Post.
    Truly in sync with the Blog Title.

    Keep Going!!!

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  2. thanks, wanted to write more on string theory but couldn't understand more of it

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