Our lives are defined by experiences, with each one serving as a manifestation of our interests and circumstances. One cannot truly live without intellectual stimulation. Such stimulation can be derived from reading, listening, discussing and simply exercising one’s imagination. I’ve always believed that in order to truly discover yourself, you should fill your life with intellectual experiences. Looking back on these years, I feel that my most important intellectual experience was one which I only went through recently, and yet has had a profound impact on my development as an individual.
First of all, what are “intellectual experiences”? Surely, I’m not just throwing that phrase around in order to sound sophisticated. I define such experiences …show more content…
What could that experience be? In simple terms, it was the experience of coming up with a “theory” of nature.
Are you kidding me? A high school senior, with almost no mathematical background compared to the theoretical physicists he idolizes, has the audacity to tackle the question of the nature of reality? Clearly, such a reaction would only be natural and is something that is generally acceptable. However, one cannot go anywhere with that attitude. Even without the opportunity to conduct any research, or study under someone’s supervision, I went ahead and attempted to explain how the world works using a theory I’d like to call, “The Energy Layer Theory”. The theory, in its essence, was an attempt to separate the universe into two different layers of energy, with the lower energy layer all around us, yet not noticeable, while the higher energy layer serves as a stage for all the phenomena we see around us. I hypothesized that every fundamental force in nature had different pairs of these layers and that through movements between these layers, we could provide an explanation for the manifestation of these forces. …show more content…
During the nights spent refining the ins and outs of the Energy Layer Theory, and the time spent juggling my examinations with this, I felt as if I had grown as a person. My ambition to be a Theoretical Physicist, my passion for the subject, and my desire to contribute to the wealth of knowledge under science only became clearer, and my experience served as a stimulus to rediscover my hidden creativity and portray it just like how an artist expresses his/her thoughts on a canvas. Only time will tell where this experience takes me as a person, but if there was one thing I could say with absolute certainty, it would be that regardless of the outcome, this attempt at expressing my views and beliefs of the world is definitely a turning point in my
First of all, what are “intellectual experiences”? Surely, I’m not just throwing that phrase around in order to sound sophisticated. I define such experiences …show more content…
What could that experience be? In simple terms, it was the experience of coming up with a “theory” of nature.
Are you kidding me? A high school senior, with almost no mathematical background compared to the theoretical physicists he idolizes, has the audacity to tackle the question of the nature of reality? Clearly, such a reaction would only be natural and is something that is generally acceptable. However, one cannot go anywhere with that attitude. Even without the opportunity to conduct any research, or study under someone’s supervision, I went ahead and attempted to explain how the world works using a theory I’d like to call, “The Energy Layer Theory”. The theory, in its essence, was an attempt to separate the universe into two different layers of energy, with the lower energy layer all around us, yet not noticeable, while the higher energy layer serves as a stage for all the phenomena we see around us. I hypothesized that every fundamental force in nature had different pairs of these layers and that through movements between these layers, we could provide an explanation for the manifestation of these forces. …show more content…
During the nights spent refining the ins and outs of the Energy Layer Theory, and the time spent juggling my examinations with this, I felt as if I had grown as a person. My ambition to be a Theoretical Physicist, my passion for the subject, and my desire to contribute to the wealth of knowledge under science only became clearer, and my experience served as a stimulus to rediscover my hidden creativity and portray it just like how an artist expresses his/her thoughts on a canvas. Only time will tell where this experience takes me as a person, but if there was one thing I could say with absolute certainty, it would be that regardless of the outcome, this attempt at expressing my views and beliefs of the world is definitely a turning point in my