The Implication of Reality

One of the earliest and questions of human life is also most intriguing question in a human’s entire period of life and that is to differentiate between truth and false. History has itself proved that what is myth to a generation becomes reality in another. The fact that you are reading this on an electronic medium is one of them.
So one of the primary task that we all tend to understand as one are actually three completely different things. The difference between truth, Fact and reality.
One of the convenient ways to explain the difference is how the Sun appears to us. Truth is that Sun rises on the east and sets on the west, whereas the fact is that Sun neither rises nor sets but it’s the rotation of earth on its axis which gives us this illusion of Sunrise and Sunset.
When it comes to reality it can be Subjective and objective depending on what we choose to be. In an example to understand the subjective and objective nature of reality we might take an example of color of an object. A leaf appears green under white light, now according to the principles of optics the color of an object is the wavelength of light that is reflected from the object. In other words the leaf absorbs light of every color in visible spectrum and reflects green. This in turn gives us the perception of the leaf’s color to be green to human eye. In other words the reality that a leaf is green is in retrospect of what we are able to perceive hence reality is objective. Whereas from the leaf’s perspective it is able to absorb all other wavelengths from the visible spectrum so according to the leaf’s version of reality under visible light it is a combination of every color other than green. So in this case reality is subjective.
Although one might argue that a form of universal reality is independent of any referential frame. So to determine the true reality of the color of the leaf in the above example we might project a beam of wave which consist waves right from Extremely Low frequency (ELF waves) till Gamma rays. And then with the help of a sensory measure as to which part of the spectrum and which is reflected we might be able to make grounds for Universal reality. Having said that, we have to also accept that information available to us is limited to the knowledge available to mankind at this point of time. In other words the universal reality explained in the above example is only in reference and thus objective to human knowledge of electromagnetic waves at that point of time.
Thus we might very easily contradict to Einstein’s view of universal reality as the idea no matter how intriguing and real it may seem might forever remain elusive to mankind. In order to find universal reality one will need absolute knowledge of everything that could be possibly known to have unbiased opinion on universal reality, which in terms becomes a paradox.
When it comes to understand what reality is in our day to day life, we might as well say that it is an illusion. Our reality is what and how much our sensory organs can detect in correlation with how much information our minds can perceive and decipher. So a one’s reality is first within the boundary conditions of its senses (for ex – We can hear sound between 20 – 20000 Hertz, we can see things when electromagnetic waves are within the wavelength of 1 um.) and then again boundary conditions of how much a mind will perceive(for ex – while driving on a highway at 50 miles an hour, a man wearing clothes similar to the background on the sidewalks might be visible on the peripheral vision of the driver of the car but his/her mind will classify and overlook the information as unimportant and thus making the man on the sidewalks unreal). On understanding this illusion we call reality, one might start questioning the very fabric of what we consider nature’s laws.
Everything mankind has done so far and will ever be able to do might just be a bubble burst in the in bucket full of forth we call our universe. Everything that we know both theoretically as well as practically, every number every formulae known to mankind has no basis. These are just chunks of information from this incomprehensible universe made into comprehensible form so that lesser minds like mine can make meaning of themselves. The fear of incomprehensible gives us the idea of Super-personal, since we don’t know everything, we need to have a belief that something or someone has to exist which possess the knowledge of everything. It is the same fear that provides us the purpose of existence, as the fear of something or someone, super-personal, is watching us and watching over us gives us a sense of security that implies a meaning to human life.