“A system will tend to move from a state of high orderliness to state of disorderliness in absence of force”
This was a statement in one of reference book of our graduation course. The immediate thought which came to my mind was that there is so much co-relation to molecules of matter and humans. A group of people also tend to move from orderliness to chaos if it is not acted by a force. The force might be from inside as a leader who guides them or chieftain or a government which imposes certain set of rules on them through constitution or perhaps a religious authority which decides the behavior of person through the customs and traditions. Ironically, in every society Civil or Military, democratic or authoratian, capitalist or socialist; there exists a group of people who always crimp of happenings around themthen there are some people who stand in support of the system. The stability of the system depends on the the number of people on each side. If number of people at anyside switches drastically, there happens to be change through revolt, unrest or coup. The reason for the unrest might be support and aid from outer nations/societies. The example to quote here will be discontent in countries like Libya, Egypt, Syria in recent past.
Lets compare this to a open system (Thermodynamic term) of beaker filled with water. Initially, the beaker is at rest and water molecules are bounded by internal forces of attraction and they cannot change their state. Now we heat this beaker and water starts boiling and water gets converted to steam. The water molecules get energy to break the molecular forces by the heat provided. Incidentally, here too the help to molecules is provided by external forces. J
This is the most wonderful and interesting part of physics. It is not only the most important of basic sciences with wide branches as Mechanics, thermodynamics, electronics, electrodynamics, electrostatics, relativity and many more. The example quoted above is just from one part of physics i.e. thermodynamics. If we co-relate every aspect of physics with philosophy we will surely find something interesting to deal with human behavior. Laws and theories proved in Physics can be applied to molecules and living beings alike.
Let me prove this with one more example.
Lets consider the principle of inertia which is one of a basic building block of Newton’s law of motion. “Inertia is tendency of a body by which a body tends to oppose any change in its state of uniform rest or motion”
Inertia is a property possessed not only by non-living things but also by all the living beings. Lets take the example of human mind. There is a good saying which states that,”Human beings do not change when they are provided options, but they do change only when they donot have any option left” People everywhere always have a tendency to resists change. Whether this be a change in ageold customs or traditions, adopting a new technology or else in the simplest form changing their daily habits. With all the daily routine they get themselves in their groove and enjoy the warmth. They will never try to do anything out of the box apart from their daily schedule. It applies to all of us; you, me and everyone.
Hope this will clear my argument that physics is not only a science subject, but also a subject of humanities. Need to discuss more things like Newton’s three laws, Relativity, Electrodynamics and many more things, but some other day or else this discussion will never end.
Ending this discussion on a humorous note. Analogy to Newton’s law of gravity which states that; “Every body attracts other body with a force which is directly proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the square of distance between them”
Similarly there is a law of attraction towards girls,
“Every boy gets attracted to a girl by a force which is directly proportional to her beauty and inversely proportional to the square of strength of her father and brother”
Hope you enjoyed reading this as much I enjoyed writing.
