Isaac Newton, without his 'Sir' and all the associated intelligence, was sitting in the orchard. Suddenly it happened! An apple fell on Newton's head. He picked the apple from ground and became thoughtful. He wondered why the apple fell in the direction it fell? May be it fell in the same direction his eyes were pointing to, Newton thought. He was convinced by his reasoning because he was indeed looking down at the earth. While deeply engaged in his thoughts looking down, another apple fell. His hypothesis found stronger foundation based on two events supporting it. Curious, he looked up to see how many apples were there on that tree. As he looked, another apple fell right on his nose. "Blue blistering barnacles!". Jumped off Newton. He looked up again and wondered, "Why?". Then came the wise man, walking down the street. He saw Newton and felt like contributing something to his great thoughts. "The world is a complex place, Newton." - shouted wise man.
"Hmm.. that is right", thought Newton. So the new law, which is going to be famous, consists of two rules:
"But..", thought Newton, "If there are more people under the same tree looking at different directions, apple will still fall in only one direction." But this thought contradicted his newly formed theory so strongly that he resented the thought and became restless.
"For now let me assume that there can always be maximum one person under one tree", chuckled Newton. "Later I will prove that my assumption is true." That seemed to be easier.
Next day Newton was back to the shade of the same tree. He was consumed in thoughts of how to prove that there will be only one person under one tree, even though there may be multiple people under the shade of the tree. Meanwhile, a dirty poor fool, who was watching Newton deeply troubled by the falling of apple, called "Sir.. Why do you worry so much about falling apples? They always come to the ground. It's no more complex than that."
"Poor fellow..", Newton sympathized. "I think he is so sick that he could never raise his head up to see apples going high.."
He tried to imagine how the poor fellow never enjoyed the beauty of an apple flying upward. But.. the world suddenly stopped in front of him. The falling leaves, the falling apples, the falling rain drops.. everything stopped. Nothing went up. Everything fell to the ground irrespective of where he looked.
"Gravity!" - Newton was relieved.
== END ==
[Note: I put down my thoughts in this story only to refer to this back in my later writings. The core idea is that often we are provided reasons for certain actions by power or authority which strongly contradict with facts. Generally these justifications are philanthropic in nature and false. In an authoritarian system the anomalies are mostly ignored. But in a democratic system these are justified through state run propaganda system stating "The world is a complex place." or something in similar lines. This is done to smear the truth, which is often simple and often points to evil intentions of the authority. As a matter of fact, this level of conformity from people is seen more in a stable democratic system where people are complacent and largely politically illiterate. This is not what should happen, but this is what mostly happen.]
"Hmm.. that is right", thought Newton. So the new law, which is going to be famous, consists of two rules:
- If you are seating under an apple tree, an apple will always fall in the direction your eyes are pointing.
- The world is a complex place so there will be deviations to the above law.
"But..", thought Newton, "If there are more people under the same tree looking at different directions, apple will still fall in only one direction." But this thought contradicted his newly formed theory so strongly that he resented the thought and became restless.
"For now let me assume that there can always be maximum one person under one tree", chuckled Newton. "Later I will prove that my assumption is true." That seemed to be easier.
Next day Newton was back to the shade of the same tree. He was consumed in thoughts of how to prove that there will be only one person under one tree, even though there may be multiple people under the shade of the tree. Meanwhile, a dirty poor fool, who was watching Newton deeply troubled by the falling of apple, called "Sir.. Why do you worry so much about falling apples? They always come to the ground. It's no more complex than that."
"Poor fellow..", Newton sympathized. "I think he is so sick that he could never raise his head up to see apples going high.."
He tried to imagine how the poor fellow never enjoyed the beauty of an apple flying upward. But.. the world suddenly stopped in front of him. The falling leaves, the falling apples, the falling rain drops.. everything stopped. Nothing went up. Everything fell to the ground irrespective of where he looked.
"Gravity!" - Newton was relieved.
== END ==
[Note: I put down my thoughts in this story only to refer to this back in my later writings. The core idea is that often we are provided reasons for certain actions by power or authority which strongly contradict with facts. Generally these justifications are philanthropic in nature and false. In an authoritarian system the anomalies are mostly ignored. But in a democratic system these are justified through state run propaganda system stating "The world is a complex place." or something in similar lines. This is done to smear the truth, which is often simple and often points to evil intentions of the authority. As a matter of fact, this level of conformity from people is seen more in a stable democratic system where people are complacent and largely politically illiterate. This is not what should happen, but this is what mostly happen.]
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