thought#10

bell curve- it is an example of how there emerges a pattern in every chaotic, evasive phenomenon. there are countless natural processes which follow the format of standard deviation from a mean value- the radiation of a blackbody, outcomes of non deterministic experiments, diffraction and interference patterns, iq tests, even the results of polls of the general masses on random topics. i had an interesting thought in this regard. on plotting the level of human intellectual achievement with respect to the time since civilization, we get a bell curve, with us having just crossed the peak-that being the era of Einstein. all most all of the greatest in their respective fields were in and around that period. the most significant events in modern human history took place during that period. i mean just look at all these names- m.k.Gandhi, Einstein, betrand Russel, Wittgenstein, Fermi, neitzeche, Charlie Chaplin, Feynman, Oppenheimer, Heisenberg, Freud, mark twain-these are only some of the names i remember when looked this up in a time line. the list is endless. true, great work has been ever since, but nothing compares to the pioneering work done in those times. it is like this-the downward slope we are on after the 'peak' is still higher than other points, but not quite as same as the peak.that was the period to live in. that was the period to be a part of the amazement at the momentous leaps of mankind. to be there at the 'peak'. i am quite sure it was our peak. how, otherwise can u explain the fact that two of the people most likely to win the man of the millennium were contemporaries-mere coincidence?

so if that is so, will we never, ever find a g.u.t, or the perfect machine or see the future as we are rapidly falling away from the peak? i don't know. what i do know and firmly believe is that the g.u.t. whenever it is discovered, will never be as beautiful as relativity. likewise for other things.