Friday, March 7, 2008

Some undefined laws

Are laws defined or observed? COnsider Newton's third law: Every action has a equal and opposite reaction. I claim that laws are discovered. On a sidenote- what will be the opposite reaction to the action of discovering a law.

This post is a highly philosophical post - i have discovered two laws which are still not in public domain. So before anyone else takes the credit, let me post them here before i file for a patent.

Law of minimum energy expulsion principle: Each action is governed by a principle that minimum amount of energy should be spent in executing that action.

Although, it is not as generic as Newton's laws but this law is frequently observed in the daily lives of lazy people. To support my law, common examples are tv remote, touch lamps, escalators etc. I have merely formalized this notion. it has been a long practice known with different names; In scientific jargon it is known as ergonomics, In management terminology it is called Just In Time technology.

The happiness law: Happiness can neither be created nor be destroyed. It can only be transferred from one person to another.

Like any laws, they can not be proved but only observed. This law has been studied by me rigorously. Common examples are :
1. It is frequently seen that humans derive pleasure on others' sorrow. This is exactly a consequence of above law. Other's person's sorrow leads to a decrease in his happiness which is gained by the viewer leading to his pleasure. From now on, please dont blame the viewer, he is just a pawn in the nature's grand plan.
2. Related to the above point, humans feel sad when they see others as happy. This again is reasoned by this law.

It is my belief that when Earth was created(whenever,big-bang, whatever!), a certain quantum of happiness was assigned to humans divided equally among them. How the first happiness transfer took place is again a chicken-egg problem.
As a corollary to the above assumption is that as humans grew in population, the level of happiness is distributed among that many and hence each individual is less happy than he was in past. This observation is also true today and hence forms a basis of my future laws/theories.

[Note: This post will be moved soon, in near future, so if you think that there are any flaws in my laws or you have found a counter-example, please let me know.]

1 comment:

anshu said...

Hi Arvind,
I have few comments over the Happiness law.
I have also been practising spiritualism, and as far as I have come to know, law of happiness can be derived from law of energy.
A fixed amount of energy is distributed amongst the existence.
In humans, the energy is located at kundalini, which is at the end of the spine. The same energy is transformed in various energies, example sex, hatred, jealousy, love, compassion etc.
It is only upto a human, if he can control his mind and energy, he can move the direction of his energy.
What I mean is, the same energy which was jealousy and hatred, can be converted into love and compassion.
But since, it is a hard process, and a human lives and dies as a slave to his mind. He is almost unknown to the pool of this energy but only can feel the energy in its different forms.

Please let me know of your views for the same.
Cheers !!
Anshu