De Broglie, Heisenberg And A Weird Teen
The combination of teenagers and stupid hot takes is not quite rare or unheard of since the advent of social media. What follows next is not something different either. I, a random 15-year-old, present to you my (impractical, problematic and any other adjective you wish to add) take on De Broglie, Heisenberg and human soul.
In the year 1924, De Broglie formulated a hypothesis, saying that all matter has wave properties and that all waves have a particle property. An electron would be a fairly good example in simplifying as well as objectifying what De Broglie had said. According to Broglie’s hypothesis, an electron has a particle nature as well as a wave nature, having all properties of a wave like wavelength etc. This hypothesis is pretty much popular in the world of Chemistry.
Moving on to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, it has been observed time and again that De Broglie’s Principle and this principle of Heisenberg are interlinked to a great extent. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (in a lay man’s terms) tries to explain that the position of a particular electron in an atom is impossible to find, if the velocity of the wave nature of that electron is being determined at that specific instant and vice versa. This is of course an oversimplification and can be disgustingly errored.
After getting acquainted with these terms, let’s attempt to draw a parallel, a particularly bizarre one, between electrons and the annoyingly vague word ‘soul’. Just as the electron has two natures, a particle nature and a wave nature, perhaps the soul is similar to an electron in this perspective.
May be a soul has two natures too —when it resides in a temporary enclosure — the human body and when it is one with omnipresent being — the Supreme Being.
When it exists as a soul residing in a human body, it is a part of the universe. Just like the particle nature of the electron, in which an electron is a part of a greater system, the atom. This soul by the help of the body engages itself in several businesses. Without the body, a soul has no relevance or power in this world. Perhaps the body gives it a form, an authority to express itself, and from the moment a soul stops existing in a body, (the moment of separation is what we call ‘death’) the soul loses its relevance, at least in earthly terms. The soul then decides to adhere to a different definition of ‘relevance’, a broader concept. The body loses its importance, and is literally of no use now. Now the authority is gone too, since there’s no one to use it. When a soul and a body unite, a creature jumps into existence. When they separate, the lifeless body is of no importance. It doesn’t even show a sign that life existed in it once. Nobody takes any notice of it hence.
When the soul separates from the body, it embarks on a greater journey — the journey to being one with the Supreme Being. A journey to find ‘relevance’ of a different kind. When the union finally takes place, the soul belongs to a new system. Souls come together. They unite in one being, the omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful vital force that keeps the universe working. The ‘Being’ before whom religions and philosophies have bent in worship and reverence. The ‘Being’ Vedic cultures identify as Parambrahma, the superior of all. Parambrahma, that Supreme being who has risen over all material and very-earthly barriers of gender, race, creed etc. The Supreme Being who probably is a deep ocean of light, consciousness, overwhelming energy and all things positive and essentially and quantitatively beyond perceiving capacity of humans. This can be compared to the wave nature of an electron, not part of any ‘visible’ system, but definitely a part of a superior system of which other waves are a part too. The amalgamation of innumerable tiny souls builds up this Supreme being.
Without the existence of these souls, there’s no Supreme being, there’s no greater consciousness, there’s no energy to keep the Universe running. When there are no souls, bodies of all living beings lay in the corners of this horribly empty world. Life disappears. Creation in all its perfection and completeness remains unfulfilled without the enchanting touch of LIFE; without the divine touch of souls, the greatest symbols of life. In short, creation meets its destruction. The universe loses its stability and crumbles when even one of these souls, however tiny, ceases to exist. It collapses just like a house of cards, when a single card is displaced from its place. Perhaps this is why sages from different cultures of the past have preached that the soul is invincible; it can never be destroyed. Probably they inferred this from the awe-awakening perfectness of this complete ocean of creation. There’s no way this creation’s beauty could be saved unless the souls are to be permanent.
This is where a particularly vague, superficial, unimportant, rarely-pondered-upon word reveals the enormous glory it holds. No sage has ever been able to perceive its divine nature, its incredible grand and massive spread, which even overcomes the infinite horizon. However, the quest of understanding it better is still going on and on. Maybe it will never end, but this journey helps understanding life and its complex mechanisms better. This is where the idea of ‘souls’ comes under the spotlight.
Even where all things end, souls remain. Souls always were: before the Big Bang and after the Big Bang. May be in millenniums to come, on a fateful day, another intergalactic massive explosion will slowly wipe out all creation from the face of earth, or perhaps will remove earth’s existence itself. Even then souls shall remain. Creation in its own tune shall start writing itself again. In its own burst of euphoria, it shall give birth to itself, perhaps in a newer form. That day souls again shall tread on the land, enclosed in temporary cages.
Great tales of this world shall be forgotten thus. And who can say perhaps a teen of that world will write the same thing all over again, on a lonely autumn midnight too?
“…ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूत: सनातन: |
मन:षष्ठानीन्द्रियाणि प्रकृतिस्थानि कर्षति ||…”
“…. The embodied souls in this material world are My eternal fragmental parts. But bound by material nature, they are struggling with the six senses including the mind….”
Bhagavad Geeta, 15:7.
