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The Road to Reality             |
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"The Road to Reality†By Roger Penrose. “Complete guide to the Laws of the Universe†It has become known that we humans think of the past when we think of the future, in a sense our understanding and perception of the present is a modified past and our understanding and imagination of the future may be is a highly modified and perfected version of the present and the past. It sounds and it indeed is appropriate to question what reality is and where we stand in relation to it in the Grand Universal scheme of beings prior to making an effort to stand on the path that would possibly lead us there. What really is reality? Have we ever been real in the real sense of the word? Or we have already been at reality and never been separated from it since? Suppose reality is real, what could possibly be true of the reality of the unreal? Is unreality as real as reality itself? The Universe is real does it possibly have an unreal counterpart? If the existence of reality is confirmed, what about the existence of non existence do the laws of the real universe as well govern and describe the unreal universe? Is the reality of complex numbers descriptive of the unreal? Or are the virtual and the unreal the same? Or where as the virtual has some basis of existence while the unreal has none? It is enough to ponder about and engage one’s mind in a mental gymnastics for a long time to come and for many people in the generations now and after. One great hope in the whole thing here is that in whoever does what now, those who were then are not forgotten and those who are doing anything now will as well remain in those who will be, on the road to the future every step forward takes us and them equal steps to the past and maybe it is true that our future lies in our past and we don’t even know it. “A Historian is a prophet looking backwards†as quoted by John Barrow on his “New Theory of everything†From August Von Schlegel. As history is a set of past descript points and line segments past high, low and medium points of past incidents and happenings when plotted that approximates a whole trend from which the whole present and future can be predicted. History as such when looked as a well connected trend becomes a path way to our future for the future and the present are continuations of the past and the line segment that started way back in history continues along more or less fairly predictable path. It is expected that that line segment to deviate from the expected straight path trajectory once in a while which would be accounted for as facts in past history and future are made clearer and reveal themselves, but with non total reversal of course. As we are stuck in between our past and future, the reality that we often search so hard for could have been already there and we knew it already or perhaps it is what we think we know that we often don’t that we are often amnesiacs and our memory short lived when it comes to our past history .Thus the role of history seems to fetch in to our past memory and remind us of what it was like and how we built on it and reveal to us what lays underneath the present that is indicative of the trajectory of our future direction. last edited on 12/22/07
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