Monday, June 23, 2014

Rationality vs Fantasy | How can a student of science write something about fantasy?

Seeking rationale behind the fantasies.....

Once I was seriously asked 'How can a person who believes in science can think beyond the laws of nature and thus write a fantasy novel about a superfluous magical world?' I can give a lecture on this topic. But I know how much I should talk here.

Rationality means being logical. We have certain rules and regulations which govern the nature. Some typical physicists even consider thinking beyond the laws as sin or something. Let me justify how nonsense this is! We all know the fact that earth revolves around the sun. Well, we will surely make jokes of the one who talks the other away, won't we? Let's go five centuries ago when Nicolaus Copernicus was sentenced to jail when he talked the truth. Can we make fun of our those ancestors?Few years after then a man named Christian Huygens talked about light being a wave. And after that he failed to retain his job as professor because that poor guy had talked against the almighty Newton. Now we all know the truth about the dual nature.

What I wanna convey is that we can not stick to the laws as they rule the nature. Nature is its own master! We just forgot that it was our mere attempt in understanding its complexity.
I have seen the nature from both the views, first one is of a person with knowledge and the other as a stupid spectator. I apologize for I can't write how magnificent is the second view.

P.S. - More on this topic can be found in the novel as a debate between a great physicist of earth and the God of Glacial World itself.
P.P.S. - Glacial World is a series of fantasy novels written by me. (Under Progress)