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ARHAT VACANA Jäänapitha Indor
Kundakunda
Short Note - 3
Chaos: Order in disorder
N. Sachdeva *
Aldous Huxley, a 20th century philosopher, renowned for his radical and unorthodox views, says. "Chance generally knows much better than we do. The Greeks, elected most of their officials by lot. How wisely! Why should not we toss up for Prime Minister? We would be much better governed or at short of Calcutta sweep for all the responsible posts in Church and State. The only horror would be if one were to win the sweep (lottery).
The big Bang theory about origin of our universe solar system seems to be chance happening and cannot be explained in terms or 'why' and 'how". Apparently otherwise, there is an order by system in nature and man has made it into an infallible scheme/system' by study of natural phenomena. The movement of stars and planets, laws of physics viz. gravitation. friction, quantum, vaccum and cuase and effect etc. are made into theories and doctrines. This seems obviously logical.
But of late, as late as 1970, James Gleick in his book Chaos The Amazing Science of the Unpredictable, has made a deeper research and hist study reveals that there is occassional random chaos in natural order and it makes our calculations, forecasting subject to error. It is a human trait to take for granted nature as divine and perfect and not subject to any error or mistake. Now attention is being focused on study of chaos. Preliminary studies are encouraging and there is a possibility of orderliness in chaos.
Mathematicians have also studied the working of chance and discovered that chance has a tendency of self balancing and correction over a period of time, large number of operations. This phenomenon is illustrated by tossing of a coin. If a coin is tossed 10 times; the chances are that one may get 6 and 4 or 7 and 3 results. If the number of tosses is increased, this difference has tendency to narrow down under controlled condition. Professional gamblers, even stock market operators play on this theory and there is insignificant loss or gain over a period of time and surely benefited by it by quick decisions.
Likewise, there is an equilibrium in natural happenings viz, floods, excess rainfall, draught, hot and cold weather, storms, cyclones and fair weather. There are inbuilt compensatory causes, until and unless natural balance is Arhat Vacana, 19 (3), 2007
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