You are visiting a garden…full of coastal plants & herbs…with several, short-distance tree-lined  walkways…it’s a bit windy weather…not too sunny, not too cloudy…just pleasant…  

You are amazed by the diversity — differences in the shades of colours — leaves and flowers, their  shapes, foliages…  

Walking through the garden and leaving it behind, you arrive at the nearby beach…  

Now you are barefoot…and want to continue walking — to engross with a feel of small hills &  valleys of the sand that are touching your foot-sole…  

You are noticing an ongoing updating of the pattern of sand distribution — as those hills turn into  valleys — as you walk on them…  

Images of some of those coastal plants — are still reverberating in your recent memory…  

With all these sensory ‘experiences’ you start wondering —  

about the growth of those coastal plants out of their seeds: how does it happen?…  about the colours of their leaves: why could, if at all, they be different from the colour of the seeds  out of which they’ve grown?…  

and what is meant by one thing growing out of another — what is it that governs such a process of  ‘growing’ or ‘becoming’ — what is it that doesn’t let something as just a ‘being’?  

You are wondering — also about the changing sand patterns — and asking yourself: ‘I walked  along and the sand distribution modified — so am I merely an ‘observer’ of nature — or am I also a  ‘participant’ in the course of natural processes?…Where is the boundary line — between the  ‘observer’ and the ‘observed’ — and, again, do the ‘observer’ and the ‘observed’ stay as they are —  or keep changing, keep ‘becoming’ something else…so that at any moment, they are never the same  as they were — in the previous one?… 

You are wondering — To what extent it makes sense to consider a thing as separate from the rest of  the nature?  

Questions…we ask questions — usually beginning with: ‘who-what’, ‘where-when’ and ‘how why’…

In one of my previous posts, I made an attempt to briefly communicate the etymology of the word  ‘Physics’ — as ‘the process of natural development itself, involving the ‘growing’ and the  ‘becoming’ of ‘all things’ in the universe’…  

So, for Physics the answer to the first pair above (i.e. the ‘who’ and the ‘what’) is ‘anything’ and  ‘everything’… 

The arena for the Physics-drama — answer for the ‘where-when’ questions — is ‘spacetime’…  Let’s consider the last pair: the ‘how’ and the ‘why’.  

A series of ‘how’ questions — a chain of causality — may get involved to fully account for and  comprehend the occurrence of any natural process — you can think of many examples similar to the  situation (coastal garden, beach and you) described above:  

What I’m trying to say is the following: Let ‘A’ be some natural process — literally anything…And  we start asking:  

How does ‘A’ happen?: ‘A’ happens because ‘B’ happens.  

How does ‘B’ happen?: ‘B’ happens because ‘C’ happens.  

How does ‘C’ happen?: ‘C’ happens because ‘D’ happens…and so on…  

Perhaps it can be said that the series of ‘how’ questions can be considered to be the ‘intermediate  why’ questions.  

And, then you reach the limit — where the last ‘how’ question from the series plays role of the ‘why’  question — whose answer is a universal law — i.e. you reach some or the other law of nature —  independent of that specific natural process ‘A’ with which you began wondering — such that the  law is applicable to all those ‘different’ contexts, to all those natural processes, which bear a  certain similarity with ‘A’…  

And that’s where — in terms of that ‘law of nature’ — you touch the ‘Paradigm’.  (Newtonian Physics, Special and General Relativity, Quantum Theory — are some of the examples  of ‘Paradigms’ in Physics — with clearly stated postulates, laws and mathematical principles… details are too technical.)  

This way our original story ends: As mentioned before — Tenets (or Isms), Arena and Paradigms —  these entities together make up a ‘Physics’ worldview. 

Still — questions remain — For example: Does the limit of asking ‘how’ reach when we arrive at ‘a  law nature’? Or Is it just a tentative halt?  

Exploration continues… 

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