Randomness Revisited – The theory behind the Big Bang and the Dirty Room

I have been a big fan of the second law of thermodynamics right through my school days. It talks about entropy - the degree of disorder or randomness in the system. The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases, because isolated systems spontaneously evolve towards thermodynamic equilibrium—the state of maximum entropy. Entropy, in common terms may be defined as the degree of randomness. This to me is one of the few physical laws that define our psycho-somatic behaviour too.

There is an inherent desire in our minds to move towards a region of randomness in our mental space. That is precisely the reason why it is so difficult to concentrate. Randomness is the most basic of the physical laws. The universe in itself follows the stochastic principle. Big Bang theory as postulated today mentions that the subject spread throughout the dark matter is travelling away from each other all the time. This phenomenon does not only rest with the macro objects but also percolates down to the micro-level matter. At atomic level, the De-Broglie’s principle states that the momentum and the position of a particle cannot be gauged simultaneously. This, in a way means that discipline and not randomness is against nature. 

Now the discussion in the previous paragraphs is a paradox to the way we have always been asked to lead our lives. “Get disciplined”, your father would say; “Concentrate on your studies and don’t roam around!” your mother would scream. However, in doing so aren’t we going against nature?  Among other unnatural things in life like synthetic clothes and inorganic fertilizers, I also gave up this unnatural habit of being in discipline. I told my mother that since randomness is the right way to go hence I won’t get my room in order. The way she got things in order (a few taunts and a few slaps) is a different story altogether. 

I took this ‘randomness’ experiment to a whole new level at my college life. Boys’ hostel, to me is the most random and hence natural place on this planet. I got a house full of entropy in my room itself. Me being the slender kind, I found an amoeba shaped room partner and a frustrated mechie to whom any shape didn’t matter. The mechie, though frustrated for obvious reasons, preferred to keep the house in order. It was then when the two of us (Amoeba and me) sat him down and explained the importance of unplanned fortuity in life. By the end of the semester he too had a bath once in a week, woke up never before 12PM and threw whatever he wanted to in the room, the same way as we did. The second and third years were even more haphazard in the way we bunked classes, played badminton and TT all through nights and to attain superior entropy in mark-sheets never even studied in advance. There was randomness in our marks and the way we all got placed.  There is randomness all around and it’s better to accept it and to live life in an adventitious manner rather than being stuck in getting it all too straight.

Aren’t natural calamities and wars all ways that lead to disorder and hence natural in their very own ways? We, the ‘randomers’ accept this fact and strive for a world where randomness is the true driver of the state of affairs. However, there is a twin paradox right there. Though randomness can be one’s preferred way of living but it can never be aimed at; because the very concept of ‘aiming’ goes against the premise of disorder. Hence, you can’t aim to be aimless and stroll through a goal. Be wise, choose to be natural.

Hey fellow countrymen and men of the world, I urge you to accept this natural way of living life, this driftless, fluky and unpremeditated life as it was really meant to be; because anyway we are going to take over the world through our natural ways.  :D