It would be better if you also knew — why all of us are not able to see God

All of us know what had occurred to Archimedes when he ran out like a beatnik out of the water tank shouting out “Eureka”, “Eureka”, could not have occurred to anyone else but him.

But it makes us aware of the immense happiness we get when we come to know something we may have not known in the past but may come to know all of a sudden just as in his case.

However, just think could what had occurred to him have ever occurred to anyone else?

An obvious answer to it is, “No”, isn’t?

The beauty of this answer is that this answer holds an answer to the age-old question, “Why all of us are not able to see the God?” also within its confines.

Here is a live example that brings forth the truth that we are not able to see God only for the simple reason that all of us are not blessed to see each and everything.

A live example that should convince even a maverick that all of us are not blessed to see each and everything

I don’t know whether you are aware of the reason why the mathematician Ramanujan didn’t have any close friends. It so happened that when someone asked him the reason he replied that although he wanted to have close friends — nobody was up to his expectation.

When pressed hard to tell how he expected his friends to be — he replied, “Like the numbers 220 and 284”[1].

The person got so confounded to get such a reply that he couldn’t resist asking him what was the connection between friendship and these numbers!

Thereupon, Ramanujan asked him to find the divisors of each number.

With much difficulty — he derived the divisors and listed them, as follows.

220 → 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55, 110, 220

284 → 1, 2, 4, 71, 142, 284

Ramanujan then asked him to exclude the numbers 220 and 284 and add up the remaining divisors.

The person was astonished to find that the sum of the rest of the divisors 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110 of 220 was “284” and the sum of the rest of the divisors 1, 2, 4, 71 and 142 of 284 was “220”, as shown below.

1+2+4+71+142 = 220

and

1 + 2 + 4 + 5 + 10 + 11 + 20 + 22 + 44 + 55 + 110 = 284

Ramanujan explained that an ideal friendship should be like these numbers — which complement each other.

Even when one is absent — the other should represent the friend.

Is it not enough to have startled you — none else but Ramanujan alone could have seen such a mathematical part of friendship — no normal human being, by any chance?

I hope it gave you a glimpse of the reason why all of us are not able to see the mathematical part of the existence of God.

The fact that just one person could have noticed the connection of the numbers 220 and 284 with friendship explains very vividly why all of us are not able to notice the existence of the “god”.

Next, look at the mathematical part of the following shape.

How many of us could have looked into the mathematics hidden behind this shape?

At least, I couldn’t have looked into its mathematical part all by myself.

Our inability to observe the mathematics hidden behind the shape of a sea-shell also explains — why most of us are not able to notice the existence of “god”.

Though imperceptibility of god makes us suspicious about his existence, we may compare the imperceptibility of god with the “ib portion” of the complex numbers “a ± ib”, in which “i” represents the square root of “-1”.

As you may be aware, until 1545, every mathematician thought that it was wrong to presume that “minus one” should have valid “square roots”.

But their such belief got torn into pieces the day the Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano (1501–76) declared that he had discovered that “5 +√(-15)” and “5 — √(-15)”, which carry the square roots of “- 15” — a negative number — in their belly, are the roots of the equation “x² -10x + 40 = 0”.

We may as well say, in real life, we may regard “a” as the synonym of the portion of the universe we all are able to see and regard “±ib” as the synonym of the invisible portion of the universe such as the portion that is classified as “dark matter” by the present-day scientists.

So, the way the complex numbers are represented by “a ± ib” in mathematics, we may represent even “god” as a complex number like “A ± iB”, wherein, “A” represents the perceptible part of the universe and “iB” — the imperceptible part of the universe.

This analogy, even satisfies that it may have been true that only god should have existed in the universe before the evolution of the universe who should have got itself split into two parts, “A” — the visible part of the universe and “iB” — the invisible part of the universe.

It should also not perturb anyone if we called even “our soul” as nothing but the “iB” part of our body.

The most interesting part of this analogy is — it also explains why Indians like to venerate almost every perceptible thing of the universe.

They like to worship all sorts of things of the universe only because they have been indoctrinated to believe that every perceptible thing is just the “A” part of “A ± iB” if we linked “A ± iB” with the “god”.

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[1] https://dropsoftime.com/2017/12/21/friends-and-mathematician-ramanujan/