The Curse of Randomness

Srinivasa Gobal [1990 – BTME]

In the parlance of mathematics, we may have come across two important terminologies ie., normality and derivability. The measurements of length and size, say of an object are under assumptions of normality. The object has a nested effect in the manner in which it is formed. For example, a chair in your house has the final product, which conforms to some size and weight, and also has a design phase that has transformed raw material into the finished product.

 The raw material in turn has an atomic composition. So whatever we see in the world in front of us is derivable from ingrained systems of chaos and probability. Normal events that we witness have ingrained chaos and chances that chaos presents before creating normality.

So you may ask, is there a chance that if I throw the ball into the wall it will pierce the wall? There is a chance; this is due to the effect of derivability and ingrained chaos in every system of order that we see. Matter is 70% space, so a ball when thrown into a wall may just go through the wall. Randomness is the cause of the universe; randomness is the cause of all life.

Randomness determines whether we are male or female at birth. Randomness determines our chance of economic wealth in society. So in essence all our worldly experience is controlled by chance.

If that is the case then what is the assessment of normality. Normality is what we see in the world in front of our eyes. It is composed of smaller derivable units. The examples are the world in front of us, manufactured goods, our birth, our lives and everything.

As well as there is ingrained chaos and also the chances that chaos creates. There are some dynamics that surrounds normality as well.

There are some more uncertainties that time creates as well. When we say we need to accomplish something at 8:00 AM in the morning, there are so many events that occur at the same time. The universality of time creates so many unknown events or parallel occurrences that our view of normality is only limited by our knowledge to fathom the unknown.

For example a routine walk on the beach and saying hello to your friends, and suddenly witnessing a tsunami. So, common place events have an assumption of normality in the sense that there are several issues that make up the world we see that are co-related.

When a commercial product fails it may in most cases be due to some common causes of failure. But there may be some rare causes that occur due to randomness that is present in the universe. For example, a sickening stench in the office was attributed to burnt food, but it just so happened that it was due to some electro magnetic radiation that was emitted from one of the coils.

What is referred to as God in religious texts, is referred to as chaos, uncertainty and probability, in the realm of science. The scientific method tries to quantify normality as probability distribution of expected values, and systems of chaos using probability models. For example, the mathematical model that describes customer behaviour will take into account the probability that a customer will buy a given product given that he has a sum of money. So the chance of selling/buying is the sum of all known chances.

All known systems of order such as Economics, Finance, Marketing, Biology, Zoology, Sociology, etc. that describe many distinct human systems of order are always limited only by normality. They are affected by chance, chaos and universality so that our experiences are limited by certain conditions that exist along with the experience. Chances are not always bad or deadly.

Chances present themselves with opportunities. For example the rise of prominent cricketers is by sheer chance and luck. We should be aware of these chances and convert them to our own benefit. !

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