The Relativity of Truth

Physics is the science of phenomena. Amongst all the existing sciences, I find it to be the closest congener to human conscience. Not because it outlines a scientific delineation for any happening in this universe but more significantly it frames an allegorical analogy with human existence and experience. Science is a testimony to ‘what happens outside’; conscience explicates ‘what happens within’. Science may not explain conscience with absolute aptness but it is very well capable of imparting rational annotations for almost everything and anything that we know within our sensual regime. Conscience on the other hand is the child of consciousness and transcends beyond the construals of corporeal phenomena. In the present scenario, while the entire human race is striving hard to define rules for the outside world, inadvertently, it is also challenging the very intrinsic aspects of human life.

The fight has never been between science and conscience because both serve the purpose of unveiling truth about what we don’t know. There can never be a contest between the two because both have to exist and co-exist to gratify human seeking. Seeking truth is a corollary to human inquisitiveness and the formation of belief is based on unravelling that latent truth. Therefore, Science and Conscience are extricably related terms.

Everything in this universe can be perceived as a smaller or a bigger manifestation of its existing fundamental elements. Science strives to logically abridge the chasm of these manifestations in order to quantify and unveil reality and thus, it shares no room for abstractness. Conscience/Consciousness on the contrary seems an indistinct mode of seeking reality. Inherently, human perceptions are prejudiced more towards demanding scientific evidences and explanations for everything that happens around us. But, by doing so, we somewhere limit the unexplored possibility of establishing truth in an undistorted form.

Distorted truth lacks veracity and adequacy. Hence, in the quest for ascertaining truth, the possibilities to seek it should neither be curtailed nor undermined. Science has undoubtedly co-existed with conscience and vice-versa. Everything in this macrocosm is relative and cannot exist independently in absolute terms to quantify truth. The Relativity of Truth is based on the co-existence of Science and Conscience. It is only then that the doors of concealed possibilities for seeking truth can be opened.

Seeking truth is not a conquest; it is a quest to know about what is still undiscovered.