Language of Everything

Language is anything used to represent or communicate the feelings, ideas, thoughts or something like that. There are many different languages all over the world. As a matter of fact, all of these are imperfect in some way.

Almost all people have learned how to think, how to feel, how to represent their feelings and thoughts, and how to communicate these with others, from their birth until their death. At first, their feelings defined their words or language. But finally, their language restricted their feelings and thoughts. This is one of the reasons why an English man may think in a way that is entirely different from a Myanmar’s way of thinking.

Unlike any other languages, Mathematics is a universally accepted language which is used to describe physical things and their behaviors. One of the advantages of Mathematics over other languages is its precision. For example, someone can say something is hot, but he cannot say how it is hot accurately. Although he can use qualitative words such as very, little or something like that, these words might lead to ambiguity. However, by using Mathematics, someone can describe how it is hot precisely; for example 45 Degrees Celsius.

Unfortunately, Mathematics has one weakness, but it is the fatal weakness. Although it can represent physical things precisely, it is lack of representation of mental things. We, of course, cannot describe precisely how sad we are, how happy we are or what we feel, by using Mathematics.

Today, many scientists claim that they are on the way toward the theory of everything (TOE). In my humble opinion, theory of everything needs language of everything. In stead of studying many different languages which describe the same thing in different ways, it is better to study the only one language which can represent everything. Hence, if someone could enhance Mathematics to represent both physical and mental things, we would be able to define everything in the same perspective.