Hi,
Well, As a person dies, a lot of knowledge goes with him.... some terabytes of information... all gone, ir-retrievable for ever. Unless one meets with a fatal accident or manages to get himself murdered, it seems one is fairly aware of his/her approaching demise. What must have been the dying thoughts of some of the greatest minds of world?
Shivaji Maharaj... Albert Einstein ... Alexander ..
Just for a moment, consider yourself in place of Shivaji Maharaj, and you will be weighed down by the enormity of his thoughts... you have built up a mighty empire from zero, next generations may do justice to it or may not, that's another thing. Whatever it is, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it anymore. What must have he felt ? a feeling of helplessness ? or the satisfaction that he had done his duty on this planet and was ready to depart ? there are some passages in "Raja Shiv Chhatrapati" or "Shrimaan Yogi" about this ... but no one can tell what his real thoughts might have been.
Albert Einstein, when he died , said something in German but there was just a nurse around, who did not understand the language. What could have he been thinking ? In a decade from 1905 to 1915, he turned the Newtonian Physics on its head almost single-handedly... Was he satisfied ? Did he ever think he might be able to crack the ultimate riddle of all.. The Grand Unified Theory, which would bring together General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics?
How I wish we could know this .. that there was some way by which their thoughts could be downloaded, Just like we hastily have some imp data downloaded on a floppy/CD when the current is abt to go.
In Physics there is concept of a singularity.. the core of a black-hole contains a singularity.. the point in space-time where all the laws of physics including the General Relativity , break down. Death is also a kind of singularity.. a place in space-time where all thoughts break down.
There is something known as Event Horizon surrounding the black hole.. also known as the Schwarzschild Radius ( NOT the Chandrashekhar Limit... mind you ) . It is that radius inside which you are doomed to a journey into the singularity.. escape is impossible ( unless it happens to be a rotating black-hole , of course ).
Death also creates a kind of event horizon around oneself... whatever other people say, you are unable to comprehend, whatever you want to say doesn’t reach the outside world.
Then, there is another kind of singularity.. the Big Bang where again physics can't predict anything. It can tell what happened even a few pico-seconds later, but not at the exact origin of space-time. Look at a child who has not learned to talk yet. Surely there must be some thoughts passing thru his mind. what kind of thoughts ? what he/she must be thinking, looking at all those unfamiliar objects ? Isn't this something similar to singularity at the Big Bang ?
So many other parallels can be drawn, but let me stop here... else some of you may be forced to put me to some singular treatment, ha ha !!
Yours,
G.
