What if the world was vertical and all its phenomena perpendicular? An architectural photog embarks on a different plane to indulge in a theory hitherto unexploredu00a0

"What if the world is so strange that we could never hope to understand it... and science was wasting its time trying to do so." When Stephen Hawking wondered aloud, little did he know his words would strike so hard.

Somewhere amid all the saying, Pallon Daruwala chanced upon that one fascinating finding of the mind, a subject so far slept upon. He pictured himself looking at the earth from a spaceship. Zooming into the people, their buildings, the trees; and conjured images of how everyone would be, quite literally, 'hanging' from it. The earth, to him, looked like a large, round pin-cushion with people, animals and everything else protruding like pins that had been stuck to it. However, every time they were to be asked, they'd swear they were on level ground and facing upwards!

"I came to realise how the one thing we take so much for granted is not the air we breathe, but the flat, horizontal level plane we all live on." So, Pallon decided to rise above, and came up with a series of 36 images in black and white that'd illustrate his imaginary indulgence. Quite ironically, he calls it Vertical Horizon, even as he leaps beyond.

Never heard of Hawking having given anyone such a creative high before.
But that one statement of his triggered me off. I started to ask myself, what is the one thing, which, if, hadn't happened the way it has, would change the complete face of the world, the way we evolved and developed? What if we had a straight line to live on? A linear axis? There are freak phenomena in the world, and this isn't impossible.