Irrational Fear

IRRATIONAL FEAR

(Lakshay Raja)

A caveman would fear more of his survival than his son not being what he thought of. A lost shepherd might sacrifice on killing his sheep for the rainfall from the heaven. And a teen with everything would burn his cigarettes up in a fear of his girl being with someone else. 

Nine months old Albert feared nothing. Nothing until he was introduced to the irrational fear. As the part of a case study, Albert was exposed to a white rat, briefly and for the first time. Albert showed no fear and went on playing with the little rat, poking and blocking around its paths. There was no past memory or any story his little brain could think of to arose any rational fear. 

Later, experimentalists went on making a loud noise with the hammer on a steel at the back of Albert, every-time Albert touched the white rat. Little Albert responded by crying and showing fear. Albert feared for the first time and his brain had probably something to make him aware of the danger around him. 

Irrational fear is a state that makes us react unknowingly. Of all the things we see, observe or hear, it generates thoughts that hop around until they get something to relate with. The easiest way to get a reaction out of someone is working over the irrational fears; the way media works. So if I overhear a conversation related to a serial killer on a bus and a news channel throws a related story as a news, it would get both my attention and reaction. But that is a different story.

Try not to pause yourself doing any activity just to let your thoughts wander around the past happenings. That might bring in anxiety or end up in a phobia of something. Growing up in a household you feel is not stable and constant makes you prone to seeing the world as a fearful place. 

The hammer at your back would bang all the time. Just don’t stop playing with that white rat. 

The case study doesn’t show how the white rat reacted. 

I am Albert and I am on a date with my love. The hammer at my back is banging. If I end up not being witty, if I end up crying, my white rat would leave. 

The white rat doesn’t react over the hammer, the white rat has its own disturbances.

The white rat has his own irrational fears. 

THE FOURTH DIMENSION SIMPLIFIED

THE FOURTH DIMENSION SIMPLIFIED
(Lakshay Raja)

Think of an isolated point, x, small enough to be considered the zeroth dimension. The x, identifies another point near it and starts multiplying itself, moving forward to meet the other point and unknowingly forms a line behind it.

Just like this dot (.) when expands, forms a line

This newly formed isolated line sees another line and tries to connect it with all possible positions to form a square. 

Imagine the two dimensional beings living in this two dimensional square. The beings, smart enough to imagine a three dimensional world dream of operating themselves in a three dimensional space If only they could. Silly eh?

The two dimensional square observes a similar square and starts multiplying itself to meet it and unknowingly forms a cubic world as it expands.

The world now is three dimensional and there lives the three dimensional beings. The beings are smart enough to imagine the fourth dimension, which is TIME and the four dimensional world where they could move themselves back and forth in the past, present and the future. Silly, just like the two dimensional beings.

A hollow cube when multiplies and moves forward to meet the other cube, forms a tunnel, which is the fourth dimension. The tunnel consists of an entire universe and the starting point is where the big bang occurred. All the things move forward in the fourth dimensional tunnel with time.

The life of a human being takes a tiny part of this tunnel and moves, just like everything in the tunnel and ends before the tunnel could end. The time in the tunnel moves ahead constantly and so do us and all the other things. There is no point imagining the gone time.

The four dimensional tunnel, sees another four dimensional parallel tunnel, comprising of another universe and tries to expand itself to meet it and form the fifth dimension.The two tunnels when seen from a distance, look like two lines expanding to form a square and the same process continues to form the higher dimensions.