How pure is pure?..Shades of grey

How pure is pure?

Shades of Grey

– a small change here and there makes all the difference

This is my space. I will share my experiences about the world I perceive through my limited senses and abilities. There may be a bit of truth and a bit of lie.

In this world nothing is in black or white, there are shades of Grey.

Take a selfie with a high resolution camera. You would see a beautiful face. Enlarge this photo on your computer screen. Keep enlarging it till you see a dot on the screen and suddenly you may stop recognizing yourself. Try reducing the size and you would reach to a stage when the same beautiful photo would vanish into a small dot on the screen.

Look through a telescope, the galaxies with huge distances running in billions of light years. A very tiny subatomic particle can be seen through an electron microscope. How big is big and how small is small is beyond any one’s perceivable imagination. We can only understand the sizes that can be compared with other objects and rest is only zeroes in numerator or denominator.

Our eyes see the sunlight as white but prism refracts and disperses this beam of light into several colours. However, what we see with our eyes is not the same for other animals. The dog would see a few greys, blues and yellows. Bulls are color-blind and they charge the red cape because it is moving, not because it is red. Owls and other nocturnal animals can see at night when it is too dark for us. Bees and butterflies can see colors that we can't see. Their range of color vision extends into the ultraviolet. A pit viper sees by feeling the heat in an object - thermal vision.

God had few building blocks when he (or she) was playing with these tiny toys. These were Proton & Electrons in equal numbers and in lesser or greater quantity of Neutrons. The Neutron were actually Protons but worn out by losing some mass converted into energy. God kept one protons & one electron and created Hydrogen and we call it Protium. Added one Neutron to it and Deuterium or heavy hydrogen is created. With another additional Neutron it became Tritium and so on. Whenever a proton was added, a new element was made. Different combinations of these sub-atomic particles give a variety of elements and compounds. Graphite, coal and diamond are all different forms of carbon. The atomic bondings make all the difference. So simple, yet so much complicated is the world around us.

Pure gold is a very soft metal. It is difficult to make ornaments from pure gold and therefore a small part of silver or other metals are added to it. Iron with carbon makes steel.

Silicon is a major component in the building material as well as the basis of all current computer processors. A transistor, with ability to switch on and off at will need a semi-conductor, a substance with resistance between that of a conductor and an insulator. It needs a wide variety of “dopants” to finely adjust their resistance, as needed. The Silicon is first processed into pure form and then some impurity is added as per the need.

How evolution brought a vast variety of living organism on this earth is amazing. Every living organism is different. The difference in the features and characteristics of is due to some small change in the DNA, the genetic material.

Nothing is right or wrong. A thing perceived right in some context may turn out to be wrong when looked through a different perspective. A little truth concealed or little lie added would make a different story altogether.

There is nothing like pure white or pure black but there are infinite shades of grey.