Chaos

"Behind the chaos lurks a simple order."

An attempt to find an order in this seemingly unpredictable and merciless world has been the ultimate purpose of all sciences. Is there an order in the world? are there equations that govern the happenings in the world? Can we predict future events? Is the past scripted or was that just the dance of chance? These are the ultimate questions that are hidden behind all the laws and theories of sciences. Babylonian scientists predicted seasons and eclipses, modern scientists predict the trajectory of an asteroid or the growth of a virus.

These attempts to find the order in the world are not mere enthusiasm to understand the world around us. There is a more exstential question for the human being here. Behind the quest to find whether there is order in this world is the key to the purpose of our existence and a question mark on our future. Because if there is order in the world, if there are equations that govern the world, if there are laws that dictates the sequence of events, then aren't we just a variable in the equation, a mere residue in a complex calculation? If that is so, then why should we exist? If all of this is just a prewritten drama and all my successes and achievements are nothing but the few bright spots on the slate that was filled long before I existed, why should I struggle like this to exist?

This shows that the more sciences advance to unearth the order in the world the more man loses a hold on the purpose for his existence.