Unbounded Expressions

Art is an expression. An expression of what you see, of what you believe in… Art isn’t confined to boundaries of music, dance, literature or paint, its rather only one aspect of it’s multiple facets… 

Science, was never confined to mathematical abstracts, or incomprehensive syllables, it rather took birth from philosophy, of understanding the ‘being’ of things around us, whether it be light years afar or molecularly close that remained invisible to everyday workings. It was about questioning the existence the way it is, opening eyes to what is seen, but unnoticed…

The eureka moment : When pieces of jigsaw puzzle, start to fit in, when one starts to realize the art, the beauty behind the workings  of existence… 

Of unbounded expressions…

From the time when dawn glimpses sun’s first rays till night takes over, with moon glowing atop : there’s actually beautiful interplay of timings, birth, death, and life evolving. From the time when you open your eyes, and look at the radiant colours mix in the sky with the sun at horizon, its actually due to the rods and cons of the eye detecting it, and neurons connecting signals to brain, which interprets the colours at display. Our eyes then focus to birds that glide in colours of dawn, we can do so, only cause our eyes can focus from 25cm proximity to infinity, which also allow us, to design Dipper and Sagittarius in the night sky. 

And with every second that passes, there’ll be a billion questions we’d ask, to which answers lie in the working of the invisible. And that’s where magical art takes form.

Why do birds fly ? Why does the horizon look red at dusk and not purple or black ? Why do we see colors ? Why do stars twinkle ? Why do we breathe ? Why do we see, hear, feel ? What is the body made of ? Why are we the way we are ? How did we come into existence ? What are our roots ? How does switching on a little lamp actually contribute to global warming ? How can there be art in mathematics ? What beauty there is to rawness and mundane machinery ? How can science and art be interrelated at all ?

To begin with, let me clarify, science is not confined to textbooks or teachers who confine you to study equations that need to be solved to answer questions printed on a piece of paper in order to obtain a certain magnitude of score that shall grant you an admission or a stature in society. Sadly, our society is stuck up in totem pole placements which leaves most curious minds mortified and deranged, that science becomes something to be dreaded of. Alas, science is all too innocent, and only those who can see beyond these curtains of misunderstandings can actually realize the magnificence of it. 

Because when you do see beyond, you realize that your existence is not just your existence but an interplay of cells, molecules, endless networks of neurons, that work in a perfect symphony to keep you going through the day. And your being is not just confined to the stretch of your hand, but actually to the infinite, and the sun is not just a far away distant yellow blob during day, but actually a star breathing fire at you, and you are a part of it, (technically true, cause the sun’s reach is till the orbe i.e. till which the sun’s magnetic field lasts which is way beyond even the comets’ orbit). And the sun, is no different than the twinkling stars at night, and they only twinkle due to earth’s atmosphere, and our sun would twinkle, for another exoplanet in maybe Andromeda. A color exists only because the material that contains it reflects that particular wavelength of light and absorbs the rest. Birds fly cause they have hollow bones unlike ours, and they always reach their home and are never lost due to their inbuilt gps system (not literally) but they have magnetic sensors which direct them. And by switching on a little lamp, you are actually using electricity, which is generated mostly by thermal power generation, which uses coal to steam water, and its steam that drives the turbines. Thus in actual, its combustion of coal, that produces carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming. I know, there’ll be more questions now, like, how does carbon dioxide contribute to global warming or why should we even care about global warming or why materials only reflect a certain wavelength or how do birds have the inbuilt gps system or how do neurons connect , and how does the brain actually work ? Well, you know what, do not be surprised if I say, that there are answers to those too ! So, similarly, if you keep tracking down this path of answering your curious questions about everything and anything at all, I can assure you, the eureka moment won’t be too far : when you finally figure out, how everything is actually interrelated ! 

How atoms in the pen that you write with are the same as the atoms floating in interstellar space, or how ‘we’ are actually stardust, how evolution wasn’t just a mistake, but more of a planned manner of occurrences, how the existence of earth is too unique, and why aliens still are in fiction books (but a day won’t be too far, that we’d meet our relatives light years away), how there isn’t a static moment at all, and virtual particle vibrations make up reality, how the universe isn’t just existing but breathing in and out, with black holes that consume, but dark energy that overrules powers of contraction or of a steady state, how galaxies hurtle towards each other at 480,000 km/hr (like our Milky way and Andromeda currently are), how mathematical equations actually simplify the complex existence into quantified determinants, how electromagnetic waves actually dance in perfect sync to propagate light, how particle and wave are actually reflections of each other, and how dynamic the space-time coordinates are, how there can be more than just 3 dimensions that we see, how there are billions of radiations passing through us that we are unaware of, how the cells in our body die and are reborn. 

The dynamic nature of what is seen as constant, the subtle workings, that go unnoticed, that magic that sings and dances in and around us, that, what makes us who we are the way we are : is more than just an expression of what the mind can perceive in the magnificence of existence itself.

For there is magic entwined in every breath and glimpse of existence : an art, inexpressible in words…