Firstly, thanks to anyone who reads my blog. I know it's quite few right now, but still, at least there are people. =)
Secondly, I'm just so glad to have resolved a niggling feeling that's been occupying my brain since late last year.
A while ago, I was musing whether I should take up physics as a career. Maybe an astrophysicist or something in the quantum mechanics field. Theory and all that, or carrying out experiments to do with smashing atoms and stuff. But then for a long time I've also wanted to do medicine.
For a while all I did was think about it. You can say I thought myself crazy.
Then a few days ago, while reading about dark energy and the universe, it dawned on me that maybe I didn't want to do physics after all.
You see, the reason I like weird things like spacetime and wave-particle duality is because it's something to think about, a puzzle. And I think in a freaky philosophical sense, I associate it with death. Quantum theory speaks of our consciousness observing things. Is there really such a consciousness in animals?
If you put a cat in a box, and it has the probability of dying or being alive in the next hour, and you need a consciousness to observe just one result, does the cat have its own consciousness?
Or does it need a human being to observe it? And what happens to this consciousness when you die? It is still there?
And where did the universe come from? What happens down a black hole?
If I were a physicist I'm afriad I would be thinking all day. I'll probably think myself to insanity; that's just what I tend to do.
On the other hand if I pursued medicine I would be busy at the least. I would be doing things everyday. I would be doing things that would help people. I would be doing things my whole life, and I wouldn't have the chance to think myself to insanity.
And then perhaps I could read and think about physics in my spare time. =)
I think this is the best resolution I have come up with. I'm happy with it.
1 comment:
... wow.
the think till you're insane part is damn true.
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