Monday, October 24, 2005

PThreads, Synchronization, Time, Space, Thoughts and Thinkers

While reading about POSIX threads I came across a sentence,
"Time is a Synchronization mechanism".

In software, synchronization means "prevent dependent and concurrent processes from colliding".The general synchronization means taking measures to make things happen in accordance.Yeah, I remember “Time is the mechanism to prevent things happening all at once”.

I am a strong believer in Immanuel Kant's principle about thoughts. According to him “Thoughts are already there. Only thinkers go and discover it.”
No concept is an invention.
I went on to think those thinkers are also already there? Only the time prevents all the thinkers to exist at the same time. And it also prevents to grasp all the thoughts immediately by thinkers. Otherwise World Wide Web would have been conceived by some one else other than Tim Berners Lee. Or Tim Berners Lee would have found it earlier.

Our forefathers have said very nicely.
"Iraivan adhi andam atravan(l)...Toonilum irupaan Thurumbilum irupaan(l)"
"God is infinity...he/she is there everywhere from a dust to a mighty pillar"

We keep on rediscovering the same....

I started thinking,
A child born, grown next moment, knows all the knowledge immediately, earns a lot of wealth, marries a girl, giving birth to few children and lives and dies with in few moments. Each child born to this person does the same thing in few moments. The thought expands to universe...the whole existence and non existence. After few minutes of thought it goes beyond my comprehension.


Still thinking…in the background thread...

1 comment:

Ramu said...

A child born, grown next moment, ... and dies with in few MOMENTS - This is what exactly happens I suppose, provided you don't define how long a 'MOMENT' is ... I have read that a few ants live just one day. It is just one day in our timespace, but it is a lifetime in their's. And for some bacteria.. the size of 'MOMENT' becomes seconds. And in that 'MOMENT' they live all their life. And if you explore that second from their timespace, it will be hived into years.

Conversely there will be something or somebody in the universe whose single 'MOMENT' will be spanning millions of Years and from their time reference, our life ends in MOMENTs. Have read in legendary stories that in God's time frame, one day is equivalent to a yugh(era) in man's time. So our life - born, grow, learn, breed and die - happens in MOMENTs, in deed - but with respect to some other timespace.

Let us consider that the legend to be true - God living in bigger time frame - Then from his point of view, we humans are like some insects and bacteria which live for some MOMENTS, which makes him very powerful. So TIMEFRAME is one of the powers that make HIM the God. And when you say He is Immortal, he is just living in a BIG timeframe that we don't exist enough to measure it or we won't live enough to see His end.

Wow, Felt like a few cells in my brain which had been inactive for a long 'MOMENT' since i got into IT field, got activated. Thanks.