round and round

ups and downs, far and near, successes and failures, order and chaos- chicken or egg? while modern scientists are now pondering over which gives rise to which- whether from randomness there arises systems- chinese philosophy has been toying with this idea nearly 2 millenia ago!

The way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

Tao Te Ching
Roughly translated, it probably means nothingness gave birth to something, that turned out to be the world as we see it.

Though not as rigorously defined in terms of equations like the modern science attempts to in creating the Chaos theory, there seemed to be this passive understanding(or aknowledgement of the lack thereof) of the workings of the universe and the respectful bowing to Fate, things beyond the means of man.

The mockery seems to be pointed towards man- after centuries of experimentation that allowed some realisation of the laws of nature, from discovering gravity to the absoluteness of light to the minuscule quantum world, which had at some point of time promised to be the ultimate theory each time, we are goaded deeper by our innate curiousity and tenacity, and now, we arrive at an old patch, that had previously been cast as merely a passive way of life and modified to be a means of healthy living. Are scientists on the verge of abandoning and admitting the flaws of previous indoctrination that experiments can be conducted in closed-systems, that it is possible to ignore small fluctuation that would occur in real life so as to get good numbers to work with that give nice simple equations, and take into account instead things as random as a cough or flap of a butterfly's wings?