The Unanswered Question! Does it really?

Author Photo DEBASHIS PANDA Sat 9th Jan 2016      Write your Story
From the title of the topic, we might think about some unanswered questions, which will be discussed here but practically there is nothing unanswered. Because, both the questions and answers are reciprocal to each other. Take an example of classical physics (so called Modern Physics), before the year 1920, our world’s picture was something like a “stage” on which the universe is just like a 3-D space of geometry as described by Euclid and the time is the medium which changes frequently. But after the year 1920, the concept had been moulded by Einstein where both space & time became unified and termed as “curved space-time”, which represents gravitation. So the “stage” is changed into space-time and gravitation is assumed to a modification of space time. So, it is found that there is nothing empirical Truth in reality, perhaps varies from time to time according to acceptance limit. Observations, reasons & experiments all together, we call scientific method. What do we mean by “understanding” something. According to Richard Feymenn the world is something like a great chess game being played by the gods and we just observe the game rather we don’t know the rules of the game at all. Even if we know all the rules still we are unable to play the game properly. The answer lies within the question. How we perceive the game is more important than playing. So all the three said things that are observations, reasons and experiments are amalgams that vary from mind to mind of different persons. Similarly answers may be different, irrespective of same question asked. If we concentrate on a branch like psychology, which can ask various questions about physiology of sensation what happens in the brains, when we think some thing? What are the chemical changes taking place in the brain, during memorizing some thing? In the other aspects, if we think about sociology, the most serious questions comes why there is war & weapons, care & custody, fare& justice, rape& murder and many more. We might be thinking about the answers to these questions, of course, there are answers, but literally it’s just a mind manipulation. As an engineer or a doctor or a philosopher our work is not to ask so many questions but to answers the questions.
A typical question that comes to our mind is “why does a frog jump”? The engineer or a physicist can’t answer, but a physicist can say what is the number of nerves, how does fluid flow through the nerves, how does the law of gravity act, whereas an engineer can effectively say what is the speed of the frog & mechanism of jumping by simple calculation (velocity=speed/time). This is called Top down approach. Technology makes thing simpler. Let us take an example of application of Nano Technology in medical field. Twenty years before there was open surgery, where patients under-want a number of difficulties like continuous bleeding, septic wound etc. But now with the landmark achievement in technology, the new concept arrives called “Laparoscopy”, in which the doctor can operate just using a computer. With the advances in Telecommunication, the world becomes handy and is confined just to our fingertips. The whole idea is we have to go to the depth and think about the various problems of the society from grass root level. This is called Bottom up Approach. We have to analyze them and find a best possible solution. A simple example demonstrates this a number of old aged persons were suffering from “Osteoarthritis”, where the pain at the joints occurs due to dryness of Synovial fluid. So for this serious problem we have to find solutions in our respective field. A chemist can find the best chemical composition for the disease, whereas a physicist can use the theory of friction to find a suitable fluid which increases the wetness of the joints; whereas a mechanical engineer can find a better mechanism of the joint so that patients can feel less fatigue during his (er) habitual work.
Let's go to some social problems like “why is there injustice to woman, why does an educated person rape”? This is a good topic of discussion for philosophers: it is a good problem to solve for engineers. Engineers can correlate their technical aspects with the philosophers view to find the cause, symptoms and remedies. Some scientists have already been awarded for their remarkable achievements in developing brain mapping software.
There is a popular misconception that science is as impersonal, dispassionate & thoroughly objective enterprise. But we should love science. A poet once said “The whole universe is in a glass of wine” probably we don’t know in what sense he means that, but in general we never waste our time to find how wine is made, rather we drink it and enjoy it. In the same way, we have to apply the technology called juice of science in the service of mankind, no to ask so many questions but rather to find solutions to the innumerable unanswered questions.