Atomic Theory

For many years until a few years ago, I used to subscribe to Indian Express newspaper. The reason – I was hooked on to the daily horospcope section by Peter Vidal. I won’t claim hundred percent, but nine times out of ten the supposedly generic horoscope for Cancer appeared like Peter is talking directly to me. The situation in the horoscope would mostly match with something going on in my life and describe exactly how I felt. As time went by, I took a suspicious approach to his horoscope section and started to read the predictions for zodiac signs other than Cancer, in an attempt to see if those might also apply to me. It was then that a realization dawned upon me – whatever was written for most other zodiac signs would also appear to be equally personalized! It was all in my mind – all these years I had been betrayed by such generically authored lines of text, which somehow felt so captivatingly targeted at just me. I was just believing what I wanted to believe. Obviously I was not interested anymore, and my subscription to the Indian Express came to an end after many years of loyalty.

The bigger astrological question for me is – can the distant stars and planets revolving around the sun in orbits of their own, have anything to do with how the life of an individual shapes up? Was Bill Gates desitned to be Bill Gates? Were the Beatles destined to be the Beatles? Is Chirag Bindal destined to be the Chirag Bindal he will be a few years from now? 😉 In my quest to find the answer to the eternal ‘Who am I?’ question facing makind since the dawn of civilization, I took to thinking and worked a theory I call the Atomic Theory (related to but different from the real Atomic Theory). The essence of my atomic theory is captured in my first blog on this site in the form of a poetic verse – Atomic Am I.

 

It is a scientifically proposed and accepted fact that all matter, except that found in extreme environments such as neutron stars, is made up of atoms. The houses we live in, the cars we drive, the laptops we use, everything we see around us is made up of atoms which is further decomposable into subatomic particles. Why go far? Touch, see and feel yourself – you are nothing but matter until we divulge into a divine debate on existence of the spirit. The skin, the nails, the hair, the eyes, the bones, the blood, the tissues – everything that the body comprises of is finally made up of atoms which means we are also things, italicized. But wait a minute, we are not just things, we are living things, right? We have thoughts, memories, feelings, decision making capabilities, and other similar deceptive evidences which make us think that we are not just things? Zoom in a bit – thoughts are nothing but some activity going on in the nerves of our physical brain, memories are not very well scientifically explained today but still believed to be accessed through neurological structures, feelings we know are chemicals produced by the brain. All in all, everything about us is a form of matter and thus finally an atom.

 

What happens when you bring two magnets close to each other? Depending upon the position of their poles, the magnets will exhibit some behavior. If similar poles are face-to-face, the magnets will repel each other whereas opposite poles will attract. Based on its location, one magnet can decide the destiny of another magent or any other ferrous material. A magnet being a simple element, its destiny is limited to which direction it moves in. In any environment, elements will interact and have an affect on each other. Moon is made up of rocks, and it is able to cause an affect of waves on the earth’s oceans from far away. As we are also composed of five basic elements, the elements in the cosmos are also able to have an affect on us and shape our destiny. The only difference between the destiny of a magnet and that of a man being that we being complex elements, our destiny has a lot more parameters related to family, wealth, success, happiness and things of the kind. I am not at all professing that it is the cosmic bodies which fully determine our destiny. The people we meet, the education we obtain, the books we read, the music we listen to – everything forms our environment and has an affect on how we perceive things, make decisions and drive our life. The only thing I would like to believe by expanding my horizons is that my environment is not limited to worldly things, but things outside this world are also able to have a profound affect on my life.