Monday, 5 May 2014
Objectivity!!
Sunday, 4 May 2014
Why physics is beautiful!!!
Physics is the most fundamental of the sciences. It is concerned with the most basic building blocks of all things - from ants to antennas, from quarks to quasars. The study of physics means trying to find out what the universe is made of, and how these things move and interact with each other. So in one sense, all the other sciences are built on the knowledge gained through the study of physics. | |
Physics is beautiful. Physicists love simplicity. They are constantly striving to find the most fundamental ideas that can be used to describe even the most complex of phenomena. For example Newton found that only a very small number of concepts could be used to describe just about all of the mechanical world - from steam engines to the motion of the planets. Not only is this beautiful, it's downright amazing! | |
Physics teaches you to think. This might seem like a strange statement. The study of all subjects teach you to think. But because physics deals with the most basic concepts, the application of such techniques as "Separation of Variables" and "The Scientific Method" are never more clear than they are in the study of physics. Once mastered you will find that these methods can be applied to all subjects, including the business world and just coping with everyday life. | |
Physics is a creative subject. The concepts of physics don't come easily. Someone has to come up with a theory to begin with. This is just as much a creative process as composing music. But where physics, and science in general, differ from the Arts is that no one will accept your theory unless you have some way of testing its validity. Experimental physicists sometimes have to be enormously creative in coming up with methods of testing theories and measuring things in the world around them. For example, how do you tell that there is a planet orbiting a star that is so far away that it appears as nothing more than a spec of light in even the most powerful telescopes? | |
Physics gives you a new appreciation of the world around you. You can look a rainbow and say "Wow, pretty colours!", or you can marvel at the amazing interactions between photons and electrons that come together in that particular way when light from the sun strikes spherical water droplets in the sky, and that you perceive as a multicolored arc suspended in the air. Now that's awe! | |
Physics is fun. Lastly, studying physics gives you the opportunity of playing with a lot of really cool toys! |
MIKE?
Hiking to understanding!!
Heroes
Today, it is much harder to detach the concept of heroism from morality; we only call heroes those whom we admire and wish to emulate. But still the concept retains that original link to possibility. We need heroes first and foremost because our heroes help define the limits of our aspirations. We largely define our ideals by the heroes we choose, and our ideals -- things like courage, honor, and justice -- largely define us. Our heroes are symbols for us of all the qualities we would like to possess and all the ambitions we would like to satisfy. A person who chooses Martin Luther King or Susan B. Anthony as a hero is going to have a very different sense of what human excellence involves than someone who chooses, say, Paris Hilton, or the rapper 50 Cent. And because the ideals to which we aspire do so much to determine the ways in which we behave, we all have a vested interest in each person having heroes, and in the choice of heroes each of us makes.
Again, the critical moral contribution of heroes is the expansion of our sense of possibility. If we most of us, as Thoreau said, live lives of quiet desperation, it is because our horizons of possibility are too cramped. Heroes can help us lift our eyes a little higher. Immanuel Kant said that "from the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." That may well be true. But some have used that warped, knotted timber to build more boldly and beautifully than others, and we may all benefit by their examples. Heaven knows we need those examples now.
Friday, 2 May 2014
Coffee!!
When exams are in progress, students have sleepless nights, study as hard as they can! In all this rush and tension to complete their studies the best companion is a great cup of coffee. Keeps you sharp and doesn't let you get sleepy!
That little experiment!
Being a science student is tough. With all the laws in physics and the infinite reactions in chemistry, it is indeed a tough choice for subjects!
But what we miss in all this madness is that, things can be so beautiful. The practical applications of physics laws is so fascinating! And specially the compounds which form in chemistry practicals are so amazing!
I came across one multicolored solution a few months back.
It was the first time in practical lab and we were doing a salt analysis. We were given a set of bases and a salt. The acids were openly available to every student. Among the group of students, I was the first one to complete it. It came as a shock that I finished first in a acceptable manner as there were students of twice as much IQ as compared to me.
Since I now had nothing to do, I was getting bored. Being a naive student I conducted a experiment of my own. I took all the acids and all the bases and the salt and mixed them all and then ran away from it. As soon as all things mixed it spontaneously bursted into fire! I was lucky the compound didn't release NO2 or it would have been much worse. The flame was very beautiful green! And when the flame went out, a compound, an epitome of scene. It was the most beautiful thing I had seen!
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Success!
Learning the lessons taught by failure is a sure route to success. The United States of America can be seen as a success that emerged from failure: by learning from the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, the founding fathers were able to create the Constitution, the document on which America is built. Google Inc., the popular Internet search engine, is another example of a success that arose from learning from failure, though in this case Google learned from the failures of its competitors. Another example that shows how success can arise from failure is the story of Rod Johnson, who started a recruiting firm that arose from Johnson’s personal experience of being laid off. The United States, the first great democracy of the modern world, is also one of the best examples of a success achieved by studying and learning from earlier failures. After just five years of living under the Articles of Confederation, which established the United States of America as a single country for the first time, the states realized that they needed a new document and a new more powerful government. In 1786, the Annapolis convention was convened. The result, three years later, was the Constitution, which created a more powerful central government while also maintaining the integrity of the states. By learning from the failure of the Articles, the founding fathers created the founding document of a country that has become both the most powerful country in the world and a beacon of democracy. Unlike the United States, which had its fair share of ups and downs over the years, the Internet search engine company, Google Inc., has suffered few setbacks since it went into business in the late 1990s. Google has succeeded by studying the failures of other companies in order to help it innovate its technology and business model. Google identified and solved the problem of assessing the quality of search results by using the number of links pointing to a page as an indicator of the number of people who find the page valuable. Suddenly, Google’s search results became far more accurate and reliable than those from other companies, and now Google’s dominance in the field of Internet search is almost absolute. The example of Rod Johnson’s success as an entrepreneur in the recruiting field also shows how effective learning from mistakes and failure can be. Rather than accept his failure after being laid off, Johnson decided to study it. After a month of research, Johnson realized that his failure to find a new job resulted primarily from the inefficiency of the local job placement agencies, not from his own deficiencies. A month later, Johnson created Johnson Staffing to correct this weakness in the job placement sector. Today Johnson Staffing is the largest job placement agency in South Carolina, and is in the process of expanding into a national corporation. Failure is often seen as embarrassing, something to be denied and hidden. But as the examples of the U.S. Constitution , Google, and Rod Johnson prove, if an individual, organization, or even a nation is strong enough to face and study its failure, then that failure can become a powerful teacher. The examples of history and business demonstrate that failure can be the best catalyst of success, but only if people have the courage to face it head on.
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Madam Curie!
Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Knowlege!!
As I have learned in my Theory of Knowledge class, perception and thought are intimately connected. While the same rays of light may enter two different peoples eyes, what they see may be very different. The brain takes the input from the eyes and processes it to form an image. That image is not the only thing the brain produces; it also provides extra information based on generalizations and bias. This unconscious addition of information changes the observation of an object. By attempting to reduce the addition of extraneous information being added to the observation, by being objective, a true observation of an object can be more closely approximated.
Discoveries, especially in the scientific realm can be doubly affected by a lack of objectivity. Since scientific discoveries are based on observation, all of the problems associated with observation apply as well to discoveries. Additional problems occur in the analysis of data collected by a scientific experiment. In a recent experiment in physics class, almost all of the students in my class analyzed the data incorrectly. However, armed with the knowledge that zero percent error is never possible, we were satisfied with the results. Our personal belief in the validity of the method of analyzation we chose, and lack of objectivity, led to our incorrect discovery in the field of energy. A lack of objectivity can clearly be seen to be a problem in my last student council election as well. The most popular person was chosen for president, not the objectively best candidate. Since then, the president has done nothing for our school. If the people involved had attempted to set aside their biases and pursue the goal of objectivity, it is less likely that errors would have been made.
Bias will always be a part of human life. It can, however, be limited in how much we let it affect us. The less we allow bias to influence, the more objective we are, the less likely we are to come to false opinions, discoveries, and bad decisions.
Is there always a "However"!
There is always a "however". each situation has its benefits as well as its drawbacks. The statement "there is always a however" is extremely accurate, for most of things there are conditions. Most of the time it is not always as easy as saying that you want to do something and then getting it. There is always some sort of stipulation set by someone else that you must follow. Teenagers are specially relevant to this word "however", especially because it is used most of the time to ruin there plans
One very
common situation is when the teacher gives you a project and tells you to make it on whatever you like. Your head starts to get flooded with ideas just when she says "however; it need to be related to Soviet union". All that creativeness and innovation is now gone.
One more example is when you ask your parents to let you go out for the night to party. They say 'YES' without any hesitation. You get very excited and just before you leave; they utter the words you dreaded to hear; "however you have to be back before 10 pm.". All that excitement is now gone isn't it. Bad luck!!
Well the word is not all bad. It can sometimes make someones day. When you go for your college interview, they tell you that your grades are not worthy of their college, you become very sad to hear something like that, just then they say "However; you got a lot of social services as well as co-curricular activities, hence we would be lucky to have you.", that word is now the reason for your happiness in life.
The word can ruin your day if used incorrectly, "however" it also has silver linings and can make your life.
Delhi?
Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Turn!
It has ups and downs,
it has highs and lows,
just they come one by one,
so don't give up when down.
Monday, 28 April 2014
My angel!
The one who points, your way to the sun.
A person they believe, makes them complete
The one who will support, when facing defeat
'You are my angel', my one and only
My forever love, so we'll never be lonely.
You've brought to my life, all your love and care
It made me see, when I realized how rare . .
What you've done, you've illuminated my soul
It's you and your love, that has made me whole.
The feel of your love, your soft touch and caress
We're tight so close, your heart beats in my chest.
All that we have, always felt missing before
Though I love you today, tomorrow it will be more.
Our love is life, we are the strongest tree
Which will always grow forever, like you and me.
You have opened my heart and held it so dear
You are my angel and will always keep it near.
You have seen my ups and cared when I was low.
'You are my angel', I just need you to know.
You entered my life, through a ray of sun above
And when we leave, we will leave together in love
My love for you, has become my reason to be
I hope one day you'll find, your angel in me.
Sunday, 27 April 2014
That girl!
Thursday, 24 April 2014
Atheism
But I'm not one of them! In fact, many have a ideology of a atheist.
WHATS A ATHEIST?
A pragmatist and a thinker. Atheist, from the Greek "atheos" or "without God", is
the intellectual rejection of belief in God or deities. Atheists emphasize the lack of
empirical evidence that God or an afterlife exists and rely on scientific explanations
for human existence. It should be noted that although atheists often reject all organized
religion, there are some religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism,
that have traditions of atheist philosophies.
DISCLAIMER::
My thoughts, ideology and experience is fairly limited to Indian belonging to a strictly
religious family.
Atheists and believers live together in harmony with not many conflicts i.e.
Both of them live together and don't have much problems with each other.
But the experience is different in India. India is literally full of people who are
believers. The most dominant religion "Hinduism" claims existence of about 33 crores
or 330 million higher powers. God is mentioned in everything TV shows, movies,
commercials, poems, stories, practically everything.
Even to give respect to elders is done by taking gods name.But when you are an
atheist in India, its tough to live. You are influenced to start believing.
Debates happen, and I mean heated debates, you can even be bullied for being
an atheist.In a place where there are riots on bases of religion. one
cannot even imagine what happens to people who don't even believe in
religion. Being an atheist doesn't come as a problem to the literate,
even religion doesn't matter to them, the literate people see how the
person is from inside, but illiterate don't see how the person is from
inside, they see what the person believes in and what he is from outside
appearance. But still in some places & corners of India where people are
killed on the name of religion, marriages are broken in name of religion,
even our country was divided into 2 parts because of religion,
one dare not to think or even develop an ideology like a atheist.
There is nothing wrong in being a religious person or an atheist,
but it becomes a problem when this difference in thinking develops into a
fight and resentment.
Today the fights are between two groups of people who are extremists of their religion.
I just hope that in future that fight does not change to religious and atheists.
I have lost some loved ones because of this, on the other hand i have
come closer to many because they still support me.
ROAD
as I have walked it,
it doesn't matter how it is walked,
the end comes quick.
This road has its ups & downs,
which can make one prick,
and their are some moments on the road,
that can make you so happy, that you might become sick.
No two people have a road alike,
as no two people are same,
it doesn't matter how similar they are,
they cannot play the same game.
"Road" is the word for what we live,
yes! "road" means our life,
hence one should always move forward,
and live their life right.
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
That tone!
it has grown and grown,
this item of rage,
which is my tone.
All it has done is,
hurt everyone!
In so many ways,
it couldn't be undone.
I have tried deep breathing,
I recited all the prayers,
but I don't know why,
this trait is still in there.
No matter what I try to do,
it's always there to ruin,
everything goes to waste,
I mean the efforts, I have been doing!
No psych nor any shrink,
could find a solution,
all i heard was,
this problem had no resolution.
FOR MY FUTURE!!
It was our mistake, not somebody else's,
which led to today, in very bad circumstances,
I wish I cared about the future,
it wouldn't have ended in this unnecessary situation.
It was like a nightmare, this unpleasant world,
which became like this because of our selfish work,
I wish I cared about the future,
it wouldn't have ended in this unnecessary situation.
Tuesday, 22 April 2014
sorry friend
I don't know what to do,
I try so hard,
to be a better person to you!
I do wrong a lot,
and mess up too,
but you are my friend,
and i hope we can make it through.
I know you are troubled by me,
I know I am troublesome too,
and i can assure you of that,
I will somehow make it up to you.
I know I am a fool,
I know you know that too,
and I can really hope that,
I can be forgiven by you.
ME & YOU
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
A lesson I just learned!
One mandatory conditions for a happy life is that you should know how to be wrong. What i'm saying is that, at times when you are right, you should give up for the person who is in front of you, and be wrong just to make him happy.
Another way to say this that,
IF YOU HAVE A ARROGANCE OF BEING RIGHT EVERYTIME, THEN YOU ARE GONNA HAVE A BAAAD TIME!