Relativity - II

Please read the first part here.

Is there anything which is outside of this relativity? Nothing which I can think of.

After a close observation around, it can be noticed that anything which can be percieved through senses (touch, smell, view, taste or hear) are surely relative in nature, simply because they can be compared with itself or each other. They all can be classified into a category of: Materials. There can be another class of relative things which can be classified as: Non-Material. These are very subtle in nature: emotions, feelings, mood etc. Because they keep changing and thus can be compared.




Lets look closely onto Material objects now. What happens if one is asked to eat a single dish for one full year? Obvious answer is: it would be utterly boring. Same way changes in life are needed to make it lively and interesting. What happens if one is asked to eat a burger and a hot dog alternatively for one full year? Again it would be boring. So changes known beforehand snatches the interest from activity which makes the activity dull. That's why life is given all possibility of changes and changes are not known always which makes life lively and beautiful. Ask people who are doing a routine kind of job, how it feels to keep repeating the same stuff again and again. Changes in life are required; to keep it flowing and changes have to be unknown in nature to make the activity interesting.

Now same rule applies to the Non-Material world as well. If a person's mood never changes, it would be utterly boring for him to live the life. He would never understand what is happiness/sadness because a change is required to compare it. In order to understand this, lets make a scale of 1 to 10 for mood swing; 1 being most sadistic moment and 10 being the happiest moment. If person's mood changes often, he would sometime be 4 and sometimes be 6 to feel he is happy. Then he might be at 2 to feel sad. But if person is always at 4, how would he know whether he is happy or sad? Scale itself cannot be created if there is no change because a scale can exists where there is a change. So definition of sadness/happiness would not come into world if there are no mood changes. And if there are no mood changes, person would be like a dead stone and world would be so boring place to live-in.

Relativity - I

It was a rainy Saturday afternoon in 2004 and I was as usual busy doing nothing until I discovered a book in my friend's room which was dusting around for a while. I started going through the book in very casual way with sips of desi-chai to realize later that I was actually galloping on the book. When I was done with my non-stop breath-taking ride of around 250 pages (which took at least 10-11 hours), I was speechless and uttered only three words from my mouth: OMG

The very first time in my life, I realized the importance of Relativity. Sounds very simple but the impact this reading triggered through my system; was remarkable. If I try to explain it here, it would be injustice on my part but I would surely like to share my experiences around it.

Relativity literally means: To relate, in relation to. In order to relate, there are two or more objects needed. Can a single object be related (read it compared) to itself? NO. Can a dot on a piece of paper be compared to itself? No, it cannot be. Definition of small, big doesn't come into picture until another dot is drawn. Now new dot can be compared (read it Related) to previous dot to define how and where it is placed. So relation is always comparison and in order to find ones own identity, one needs to relate or compare oneself with others to confirm where one stands. What about the paper itself? Is it not a comparison that paper is being called a paper and dot is referred to as Dot.

Are these two dots sufficient on a piece of paper? In order to define a DOT fully, one needs to know all the properties a DOT can posses; like thickness, length, width, color etc. And then one needs to draw all possible DOTS to compare and see what different possibilities are.


We are all DOTS in the piece of paper which is this world. In order to define us fully, there are all possible types of objects around. One less type of DOT and world is incomplete. This is the beauty of relativity. Each Dot has its own properties which are so unique that it gives that object a unique set of characteristics. One dot in relation to ALL others is what defines that DOT. If a DOT excludes to be in relation with another set of DOTS , it leaves behind its chance to explore its own quality, its own identity. For example, if a DOT excludes to be in relation to another set of DOTS which are smaller in nature, it would never know that it actually is big. So in order to know its own identity, it needs a relation. To understand our own identity, we need relations.

To be continued...