Deaf, Dumb and the Vacuum

Thoughts have the magnificent attribute to be both frightful and pleasant varying upon the mind that it evolves from. No, we are not to dwell on the debate if mind or heart or brain is the source and fulcrum of all thoughts, for the science is far from establishing the truth and human understanding is at its unfathomable depth.

Consider for the sake of imagination that the process of creation of the universe went haywire and uncontrollable and a huge blunder occurred which was irreparable.
‘What if the whole world is to be contained in a huge vacuum cell?’ supposed my mind.

Few escapists might shelve out this thought awaiting some master of physics to explain them the outcome. And others would brush away the question and continue with their way of life, while few eccentrics (not that I call myself one) would be inclined to ponder upon such so-called unrealistic phenomenon.

Recollecting the basic 9th grade physics, a vacuum contains no medium (air, for that matter) or more abstractly ‘vacuum is created by absence of matter’. The abstract definition will lead us to concluding that the world wouldn’t contain any being (matter). So, sticking to the idea from elementary physics, vacuum is a lack of ‘air’ medium.

A significant part of evolution (of universe and human) has been ‘communication’, without which nothing shall move even a bit further. Be it a moving train or a plane or an ever fluctuating stock market. Everything relies on communication, the genesis of which started when a man ‘talked to’ (or communicated) to another. No one would deny the power of basic communication (talking and hearing). If it were not for this, human ideas wouldn’t have prospered to such levels of modern sophistication.

Getting back to the question of vacuum; this ‘absence of air’ (or a carrier) could block the sound waves and impair our power to communicate, thus we shall no more have the luxury of a medium to project our sound and hence our thoughts or ideas. This shall make each and everyone of us deaf and dumb for we can neither produce meaningful words nor hear even a meaningless grunt.

If the blunder were supposed to happen during the creation of the universe, then we wouldn’t have reached the phase where we are now. Or maybe we would have reached indeed by other means of power (or communication). After all, that’s what evolution is all about; learning to adapt. If the supposed blunder were to occur in the midst of our evolution, I believe, still the humankind would have learnt to adapt and discovered different means to sophisticate itself.

Now, imagining at a lesser scale, what if this vacuum is placed upon an individual which renders him/her deaf and dumb to the society. In such case, there is no such process of evolution, because the individual’s development is governed by the society itself. Being in such a vacuum doesn’t make the individual dumb by mind for he is alive with thoughts and ideas (which, by matter of fact, could turn on a revolution).
Thanks to the society’s advancement and people’s increased openness and acceptability such vacuum is being filled in and doesn’t hinder the progress of the individual any more.

Thus, it really doesn’t matter if the blunder was on a larger scale affecting all the living beings or it was nature’s mal-creation (if I could say that) of an individual, ‘evolution’ has its own source of power to overcome the anomalies and serve a helping hand to the mankind, as a whole, to attain the ‘greater good’ (now, this is another topic open for a blog :-)).