The only thing ever constant is change. It's funny that we (most of us) know about it, but somehow
somewhere fail to make the connect with it in real life's terms. It's perfectly acceptable in virtual reality,
a video game or something that bothers us, but not enough to sit back and grumble for a while...
"No matter what you do, it'll all total up to zero. In nothingness we began, and in nothingness shall we
end. Energy cannot be created, energy cannot be destroyed. It can only transform itself through space and time."
The professor's voice could be heard in the aisle and the classroom where he was teaching was shut. This sounded interesting.
Question: What was more interesting? A sixty year old man talking mathematics or a cuppa latte with a pretty young something new in college. Raging hormones and youth spelt the obvious (you're not
human if you picked the professor!) and i quickened my pace.
"Mathematics holds the key to life, this life, all those before and those to come still. Try if you may to
bend it", the professor was challenging the class. For reasons beyond the ken of my understanding,
Murphy's logic and some other mysterious forces, the next thing that i remember seeing was standing
by the side of the chalk board. And the class was empty if not for the professor addressing whoever it was
he was addressing.
"I sense an eager young mind keen to challenge the game itself! Perhaps you should play the 'Game'! The famous game developed by your fellow alumnus John Nash. Perhaps that'll teach you something about the equation."
And so the ball of wool began to unravel...
Q. Why should the equation end in an endgame?
A. Why not? Why should it end in finito?
Q. What is finito?
A. Finito would mean the end of the universe as we know it. Zero is a mysterious number and is poorly misunderstood to denote nothing. Yet two zeroes joined together at the side, stretched out sideways equal infinito.
Q. What does infinity have to do with the Endgame?
A. Infinity has no end, nor a beginning. This is the perfect playground for very many beginnings and ends. Consider it to be a vast chalk board with a magic duster.
Q. And the duster cleans the board at a periodic interval?
A. Yes it does, so another game can begin only to end sometime later.
Q. Doesn't this sound stupid to you professor?
A. I wouldn't dare say the equation's stupid. Not when i'm just another variable in it.
Q.. What makes you think you're a variable?
A. Answer it yourself sir. Do you believe yourself to be a constant...?
I was fumbling for an answer. A stump is one of those questions where the brain's trying to retrieve a
wise ass answer to the question but not..
The tables had turned on me!
Q. Do you believe you are in the same state as you were when you were born?
A. No
Q. Did you not change form, attitude, opinion and just about everything material and immaterial about yourself?
A. Yes...
Q. Do you not believe you're changing every minute as we speak? A cell in your body dies so two more
can take its place. The RNA is believed to be divided equally among the two cells but in reality, information is lost in transit, lost in transmission. And your body forgets small signs of how you really were, and so you grow old thus...
A. Agreed but...
Q. And still you believe you're a constant and not a variable in the equation?
A. Agreed that i'm a variable but where's proof of the equation.
A^2 + B^2+ 2*(A+B)+...
Q. Tell me what does this mean?
A. It's an equation...
Q. Thank you for the revelation Einstein but tell me is the value of the constant equal during any part of the equation described here...?
A. No, it is not...
Q. Why is that so?
A. Because the operands affect the variable
Q. Precisely. Think of it in life's terms, think of it as an end game equation, what'd be the outcome?
A. Nothing
Q. So shouldn't there be something that changes the variables across the journey through the equation?
Specially if its an endgame equation?
A. Yes, the variables will be transformed from one value to another until they finally become zero
Q. Does this not apply in life as well?
A. I don't quite understand how do they relate with life.
Q. You're happy, you move on from happy to very happy. You win the affection of your girlfriend, your
job's going on full steam, and then...
A. I suddenly stand deprived of it all someday, only to gain something else some other day.
Q. It's never the same thing that you get back, do you?
A. Never quite the same that i get back after losing...
Q. What does that teach you in life?
A. Don't expect much from life...?
Q. Wrong. Across the journey through the equation, you go through numerous highs and lows, but to
treat each and every unique transition with wide eyed wonder and curiosity mean...
A. To treat every unique transition means the final outcome does not bother me
"That means i enjoy the sum of the parts more than the sum of the whole, which means life no longer
seems troublesome."
The professor was smiling, "You have it there my friend, you've cracked the equation's riddle!"
Q. But what decides the operations in the equation? Who decides the operators?
A. That my friend, we shall talk about some other day, shall we? I believe you must hurry now for a
certain young something awaits you impatiently at the coffee shop.
Ciao professor!
Ciao my friend!
somewhere fail to make the connect with it in real life's terms. It's perfectly acceptable in virtual reality,
a video game or something that bothers us, but not enough to sit back and grumble for a while...
"No matter what you do, it'll all total up to zero. In nothingness we began, and in nothingness shall we
end. Energy cannot be created, energy cannot be destroyed. It can only transform itself through space and time."
The professor's voice could be heard in the aisle and the classroom where he was teaching was shut. This sounded interesting.
Question: What was more interesting? A sixty year old man talking mathematics or a cuppa latte with a pretty young something new in college. Raging hormones and youth spelt the obvious (you're not
human if you picked the professor!) and i quickened my pace.
"Mathematics holds the key to life, this life, all those before and those to come still. Try if you may to
bend it", the professor was challenging the class. For reasons beyond the ken of my understanding,
Murphy's logic and some other mysterious forces, the next thing that i remember seeing was standing
by the side of the chalk board. And the class was empty if not for the professor addressing whoever it was
he was addressing.
"I sense an eager young mind keen to challenge the game itself! Perhaps you should play the 'Game'! The famous game developed by your fellow alumnus John Nash. Perhaps that'll teach you something about the equation."
And so the ball of wool began to unravel...
Q. Why should the equation end in an endgame?
A. Why not? Why should it end in finito?
Q. What is finito?
A. Finito would mean the end of the universe as we know it. Zero is a mysterious number and is poorly misunderstood to denote nothing. Yet two zeroes joined together at the side, stretched out sideways equal infinito.
Q. What does infinity have to do with the Endgame?
A. Infinity has no end, nor a beginning. This is the perfect playground for very many beginnings and ends. Consider it to be a vast chalk board with a magic duster.
Q. And the duster cleans the board at a periodic interval?
A. Yes it does, so another game can begin only to end sometime later.
Q. Doesn't this sound stupid to you professor?
A. I wouldn't dare say the equation's stupid. Not when i'm just another variable in it.
Q.. What makes you think you're a variable?
A. Answer it yourself sir. Do you believe yourself to be a constant...?
I was fumbling for an answer. A stump is one of those questions where the brain's trying to retrieve a
wise ass answer to the question but not..
The tables had turned on me!
Q. Do you believe you are in the same state as you were when you were born?
A. No
Q. Did you not change form, attitude, opinion and just about everything material and immaterial about yourself?
A. Yes...
Q. Do you not believe you're changing every minute as we speak? A cell in your body dies so two more
can take its place. The RNA is believed to be divided equally among the two cells but in reality, information is lost in transit, lost in transmission. And your body forgets small signs of how you really were, and so you grow old thus...
A. Agreed but...
Q. And still you believe you're a constant and not a variable in the equation?
A. Agreed that i'm a variable but where's proof of the equation.
A^2 + B^2+ 2*(A+B)+...
Q. Tell me what does this mean?
A. It's an equation...
Q. Thank you for the revelation Einstein but tell me is the value of the constant equal during any part of the equation described here...?
A. No, it is not...
Q. Why is that so?
A. Because the operands affect the variable
Q. Precisely. Think of it in life's terms, think of it as an end game equation, what'd be the outcome?
A. Nothing
Q. So shouldn't there be something that changes the variables across the journey through the equation?
Specially if its an endgame equation?
A. Yes, the variables will be transformed from one value to another until they finally become zero
Q. Does this not apply in life as well?
A. I don't quite understand how do they relate with life.
Q. You're happy, you move on from happy to very happy. You win the affection of your girlfriend, your
job's going on full steam, and then...
A. I suddenly stand deprived of it all someday, only to gain something else some other day.
Q. It's never the same thing that you get back, do you?
A. Never quite the same that i get back after losing...
Q. What does that teach you in life?
A. Don't expect much from life...?
Q. Wrong. Across the journey through the equation, you go through numerous highs and lows, but to
treat each and every unique transition with wide eyed wonder and curiosity mean...
A. To treat every unique transition means the final outcome does not bother me
"That means i enjoy the sum of the parts more than the sum of the whole, which means life no longer
seems troublesome."
The professor was smiling, "You have it there my friend, you've cracked the equation's riddle!"Q. But what decides the operations in the equation? Who decides the operators?
A. That my friend, we shall talk about some other day, shall we? I believe you must hurry now for a
certain young something awaits you impatiently at the coffee shop.
Ciao professor!
Ciao my friend!
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