ICC: Standing the test of time
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” said Mark Twain. In our day to day lives, we come across many truths which we blissfully ignore and take it as a matter of fact. Gravity is one such “truth”, while many a pseudo truths have been falsified as stated by Nicolas Taleb in “Black Swan”; Sir Karl Pooper went on to say about scientific truth are of two types, first type - which is falsified and the other type - waiting to be falsified.
Notwithstanding the debate about the truth and absolute truth, there are certain aspects which remain true even after many centuries or many ages that have passed by. “Gravity” and “Division by Zero” are two prominent examples that come to our minds when we think of Universal Truth. The most modern technologies, when applied cannot falsify these truths. May be a human/animal can feel a sense of Zero-Gravity for a moment or a few, but again they are subjected to the ever present reality.


