Quantum leap

QUANTUM LEAP

If you keep doing it persistently, the thing you love doing, however slowly, a day comes when the thing you have been desiring for a long, long time, happens, on its own accord.

Boiling of water, making of emulsion, butter extraction from milk and even an earthquake, are a few examples of the same phenomenon. It is a jump. It is a quantum leap. Suddenly, you find yourself at the next level of your potential and capacity, like an electron making a quantum leap to move from a lower to a higher energy level, called a shell or orbit. It happens so quickly that the transition phase between the two levels is unpredictable. You don't know when it will happen. It takes a certain amount of persistence and patience, but it happens surely, one day, eventually. Whenever it happens, it is so profound and overwhelming that it is just like magic.

Boiling water

When water is heated, the temperature rises degree by degree. Nothing noticeable happens up to 99 degrees, but at 100 degrees centigrade, water suddenly starts boiling. Suddenly, the quantity accumulated over a certain period of time changes into quality. 

butter extraction

Have you ever observed the process of butter extraction from milk in rural communities? This method involves the continuous churning of milk over an extended period. Initially, they go on churning the milk for several minutes without any apparent change. Throughout this process, energy accumulates gradually, although no visible transformation happens. No change is seen for quite some time. After considerable time has elapsed, a sudden shift takes place in the final moments, resulting in the instantaneous separation of butter. This phenomenon illustrates the transition from quantity to quality. It happens so suddenly that it seems like magic.

Earthquake

An earthquake is apparently such a sudden phenomenon that we never know when it will happen. The stress or the pressure between the tectonic plates builds up over a long period of time. Slowly energy keeps accumulating between the tectonic plates. The process of accumulation of energy continues until it is so great that it breaks the rocks and the tectonic plates suddenly slip past each other. This suddenly released energy travels in all directions, around the epicentre in the form of seismic waves causing the earth to shake.

To be continued......