Introduction
Meanwhile, the victorious story about the foundations of the world continues, which means that today you will find a story about how everything in the world is relative and how to understand it in general. The language of the Galileans and Einsteins on this topic is very dull, therefore, for ease of assimilation of the material, we will consider the theory of relativity in understandable words. Let's get started.
What is the law of polarity
So that you can understand why everything in the world is relative, we need to talk about the law of polarity. The essence of the law is as follows: everything has two poles, which exist simultaneously and complement each other. Stop-stop, don't rush to close the article, we'll explain everything now.
A person always strives to make his life easier. One of these solutions was the division of all things into two extreme states, for example: right and wrong, fun and sad, warm and cold, fast and slow, truth and lies, good and evil, light and darkness, and so on. Everything on our Earth has two poles.
Pole principle
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Let's take light as an example and take a closer look at the idea of why everything in the world is relative. Now we need to abstract ourselves from the real world as much as possible and imagine a very strange situation.
Suppose for a second that night never falls in your city. Wherever you are: underground, in isolated rooms, under a blanket - there is always light as outside on the sunniest day. You don't know anything about the existence of darkness, because it never existed.
We have just constructed an example in which there is only one pole. Now, being in this world, let's try to understand what light is. We turn on the light bulb. What you see is roughly shown in the picture. Is the light on?
Of course it burns. But the trouble is, everywhere it is so light that it is impossible to understand how the light bulb shines, and whether it shines. Light constantly surrounds us, but we cannot even understand what it is. And all because there is no darkness. You can understand and see the light only in the dark. Sad story.
This is how the law of polarity works, according to which the poles exist simultaneously and complement each other. Without all the bad, there would be no good, because the good is learned relative to the bad. Without hatred, there would be no love, without the top, there would be no bottom, and further down the list.
Why is everything in the world relative
With the poles sorted out, let's move on to the theory of relativity. As an example, let's take a harsh physical quantity - speed. Conventionally, it has two extreme states: slow and fast. All moving objects will be located between these two poles. This is how it might look schematically:
Everything in the world is relative because we always consider objects from a certain point of view. How do you know if the plane is really moving fast? From the point of view of the snail, the plane moves at cosmic speeds, and from the point of view of the speed of light, the plane itself seems to be a snail.
Is the plane fast or slow? The correct answer is neither fast nor slow. This world is arranged in such a way that initially there is no plane, and the observer makes it fast or slow with his viewing angle.
Did you know that even at rest we move at a speed of about 107,218 km / h? That's just this speed relative to the sun, and since the Earth moves with us, we are at rest in relation to it. It turns out that even physics considers speed relative (relative to the Earth).
It is impossible to evaluate any object or phenomenon absolutely, that is, in isolation from any reference point. This follows at least from the word "evaluate". Evaluation always takes place in relation to any criteria, conditions, circumstances, and if they do not exist, then it will not be possible to evaluate.
In the same way, it is impossible to evaluate anything from all existing viewing angles at once, because in one unit of time a person is fully capable of being only in one of them. Here is a simple answer to the question "Is everything in the world really so relative?"
Even our actions are relative, which in themselves have absolutely no meaning, and we have already discussed this topic in detail in the article on how to start acting effectively.
The legendary separation of good and evil
The law of relativity is used by all people every day. We mean the ingenious pair of poles "bad" and "good" (or right and wrong, or positive and negative - they are all the same). She is brilliant because a person managed to come up with a system of only two concepts that completely organize his entire life.
After all, everyone tries to live according to their conscience, do the right thing and be a good person. Just watch a little and notice that your whole opinion about anything comes down to just one question: "is it good or bad?" …
When we are dealing with speed, we can easily compare the numerical values of the speeds of different objects relative to the Earth and decide which one is moving faster. But how do we determine what is good and what is bad?
By themselves, things do not contain any reliable estimates such as ratings, likes or scores that we could use when comparing. There is nowhere that transferring a grandmother across the road - +5 points, and throwing an egg from the balcony at passers-by - -18 points. What, then, is the starting point for our beliefs?
At birth, nothing was good or bad for us, we just knew nothing about this separation. But the mind understood that it could not go on for so long, because we had nothing to start from, but we had to make a start, otherwise there would be no development.
As a result, we simply come up with a whole system out of nothing, based on which we then begin to position ourselves. That is why everything in the world is very relative. A detailed diagram of the emergence of a person's beliefs can be studied in the article about what faith is.
The division into good and bad is far-fetched, exists only within our minds and, roughly speaking, is taken from the ceiling. For example, this is how it might look for an ordinary person:
When placing objects on the chart, we proceeded from generally accepted norms. But this is all very relative. Charles Darwin would clearly have thrust war closer to the good pole, because according to his view, it contributes to the evolution of humanity.
Some will regard charity as a bad pole, because the help given to people deprives them of the opportunity to achieve everything on their own. Any terrorist would even present a picture in a mirror image, and the end of the world would be an ideal event for him. The planet is one for everyone, but each person lives in his own world, and relativity is to blame.
Everything in the world is relative - results
What to do with all the info that has invaded your brain unceremoniously?
First, it is worth keeping in mind the idea that every thing has an opposite. This is good, and it was then invented that it is possible to understand things in this world only through their opposites. You can evaluate your good qualities only against the background of your shortcomings, and success is possible only thanks to a huge number of failures, and so on. Do your problems and failures seem so terrible to you now?
It was not in vain that we advised to thank for everything bad in the article about what gratitude is. It is necessary to accept that everything bad carries a deep meaning and therefore must be in our life (thank Gods that it is).
Secondly, we must take into account the fact that we ourselves define the poles. No one for us gives meaning to the concepts of "cold", "fast", "high", "heavy", "a lot" or "little". We ourselves can control the poles by changing our observing position.
The ability to change the poles makes everything in the world relative, puts the observer at the forefront and gives him all the cards in his hands. Well, of course, we act as an observer of our life. Our thinking determines our world and it depends on it how everything around us will be.
So what do we want to see? How do we want to look at the world? How are we planning to do it? What are we going to observe about it? Think about these questions, it may not be easy, but with due attention they will allow you to accurately understand the topic of today's conversation.
At the Top of Mind Team