Chris and Jane - A beginning!!!

Chris was a charming guy to any girl in the town. Tall, fair and handsome all the superficial qualities that a girl would imagine and more than that, he knew girls like him. He used these qualities to perfection and always dated more than one girl concurrently. He thought he can outsmart the feelings of one and all, quite stupid but thats how most guys think in adolescence and Chris was no different. He was caught twice once on 28th Jan'07 and then again seven months later on 28th August'07 on his birthday. There was one thing in common on both the occasions, he was given a good conditioning by girls ;-).

Hey! but then boys are boys and Chris saw an opportunity on both the occasions.

One fine day of July 2008, second rain of the season knocked the town. Chris was driving downtown and on the way he slushed Jane at the bus stand.

Jane, beauty at its best. Sometimes the die caster (aka God) makes someone like Jane and thinks from today on this is the benchmark of perfection. A look of Jane would bring wings to life and make you feel happy for your entire life.

Jane screams to Chris' car 'God will shower hell on you, bugger'. The car stops some 25fts after the bus stand and Chris puts a reverse, comes back. Jane becomes nervous, the rains are heavy and she was alone on the bus stand. Chris opens the window pane and apologizes. Poor Chris he couldn't stop staring at her beauty but somehow he gained all his courage to offer her a lift. Jane was going to City Hospital, he dropped her and while returning he noticed Jane forgot her mobile at car's seat.

Chris, bugger, he saw an opportunity and next day he took an off from work and went to the hospital, admitted himself deliberately thinking Jane was a nurse. He went for a complete body check up. After that was done, he started his mission. Chris searched all over but could not find her. Tired and restless he came to his room and what he sees next was amazing, the room just in front of his room was Jane's.

They started seeing each other.... :-)

Chris use to come often to the hospital and take Jane out, on one such occasion they ran out of the hospital and went to the restaurant where Jane said jokingly that it was her birthday, the restaurant people celebrated it. Chris didn't know what to do, Jane said chill it is not my birthday damn it. All this cake thing is free so I ordered it. lolz.... Smart isn't it!!!!

On 20th September that year they went to watch a movie and Chris kissed Jane. Whow!!! he was nervous, Chris never felt that nervous before then why that feeling came all of a sudden.

He was surprised, he was in love. He got someone who he was searching since the beginning. He expressed his feeling after a week and the feeling was mutual. They both fell in love since then.

On 2nd October, Chris went to meet her and found that she was not there. He went to ask the doctor and the doctor told him she was not well. Chris insisted, 'what has happened to Jane doctor?'. Doctor said 'she has blood cancer, last stage and she has been knowing this since she has met him.' and the doctor told him something else too....

Chris was shattered, he didn't know how to face Jane with the smiling face. 'Oh lord, give me courage I want to make her life beautiful!' Chris asked to God. Next day, 3rd October 2008, he went to see Jane, she knew the doctor has told him everything. Jane asks 'we can live our lives separately if you want' to which Chris replies 'if I have done anything good in this relationship, please don't separate me from you now.', Chris runs away from her at that moment to control his outburst of emotions. On the hospital lobby, while he was thinking about Jane he felt some pain in his head. He knew what it was and took a pill.

Next day, Jane asked Chris to take her to her place so that they can see an old church near her house where Jane used to pray and play. They started early, the flight was on time. They reached at 10 in the morning of 6th October, it was so beautiful for Chris. He kept looking at the nature to which Jane said 'Come on, I don't have enough time to spend here' and she hit him casually because of which Chris fell and gosh it was a heavy punch, Chris went unconscious. He came back to life after a few seconds, took out a pill from his jacket and said 'You should enroll in WWE' to which they laughed. The return flight was at 5PM, while returning Jane showed some negative signs. Chris cried for help but it took 1 hour for the flight to land, that one hour was centuries old. He felt miserable to the extent that he thought he has lost her.

Flight landed at 6:30PM, Jane was carried on the ambulance and was rushed to the hospital.

Jane's death certificate reads the time as 7:06PM, 4th October 2008.

Chris could not see her last few seconds because he was unconscious and was taken care in the adjacent ward.

Some days went by, a mail came. It was a snap of Chris and Jane which they took at Jane's place. She had posted it before boarding the flight. At the back it said, read the letter I have buried near the Church where we planned to make our house.

17th October 2008, Chris went there to find the letter. He found it, the letter read,

Dear Chris,

I know you are sad and I cannot cure your sadness but I will be unhappy if I am the one who is making you sad. So please don't be.

I went to see the doctor 2nd October's evening. It is so difficult for each of us to pretend that nothing has happened. I knew all along that you had tumor in you brain and you had a month of life left but I wanted us to be happy the way it is. The day I hit you, I thought I lost you. That day I went to church and prayed to God, please take me before you so that when you come to me again you will be happy.

You have been a great support for my last days. Every girl would want a guy like you.

It was my birthday the day we freaked out at the restaurant :-)

Thank You Chris for all you did.

Now and Forever.

Jane

How did water come to mother Earth?

Since long there has been a mystery that from where did water come into existence on our mother earth. The following post is inspired from a documentary aired on National Geographic channel.

At the time when earth was born it had to suffer many collisions from the particles, existing then in the solar system. When earth was born, Sun's outer shell was big enough to influence Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars so the existence of water from the very beginning was ruled out. So then whats the origin of water, is it the Comets? Let's see...

Initial observations from the scientists in NASA was also in the same direction and they did research on this, even bombarded* Hale-Bopp, a comet, with a copper mass but things did not go well because the water present in Comets was usually the isotope of water present on our mother Earth. The isotope found in the Comet was Deuterium. So we were back to square one, where did water come from?

Jupiter, the largest planet of our solar system, played a role in bringing water on earth. In the inital period of planet formation the asteriod belt  was not stable enough to remain intact in their orbit and master Jupiter had plans to fight for some asteroids. Jupiter attracted many asteroids into its gravitational field and did succeed to pull out many asteroids but for many others it just managed to change there circular (not exactly) trajectories into the elliptical.

These elliptical orbits of asteroids conincided with earth's orbit and poor asteroids were pulled by Earth. The asteroid belt contains rocks which have good amount of water trapped inside along with clay. When these asteroids travelled into earths atmosphere they bombarded earth's crate, our natural satellite Moon still has scars on it's face which could be called birth marks. This process continued for 100 million years and they gave birth to our seas and oceans. All this happened just in just few hundred million years.

*http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news008.html

Newton's 1st Law of motion...It Works!

Newton's first law of motion says, 'An object, having mass, remains at the state of rest or uniform motion unless an external force is applied to it.' Is this true holistically? Let's put forward some arguments...

We have been studying motion in 3 dimensions since the beginning, and now that some intellectuals have given us an idea that TIME is also a dimension so why not run back and forth in this dimension. Many of us might think this as crap which has been discovered again and again but hold on a sec, you have a law with you which is universally accepted you just have to apply it on the right variables and this post is all about placing things together. To do this we must first realize that the dimensions in which we stay for our life are a subset of a larger picture. This is easy to figure out if you are a biologist, he who knows that a horse has circumspect for two dimensions as we have for 3D. As evident in my previous posts, I will explain this with an example;

We buy our kids a clapping monkey, twist the keys and the monkey does his act, try correlating this with yourself. Gulp the same idea keeping yourself in place of this monkey and somebody has twisted your keys and is enjoying your act. For a monkey it is tough to imagine who twisted its keys likewise you too will find it a bit of the track, let me make the task simple for you,

I have defined variables:

1. Clapping monkey = Humans

2. Twisting of Keys = Our Birth

3. Act = Life

4. Somebody = Mr. ABC

My idea says that Mr. ABC has one extra dimension to move on and that dimension is time. He fills in life in us and then enjoys our act and like every perishable item we also loose our life and join Mr. ABC to watch the acts of life from above so it is more like a circular trajectory that our life follows and whenever there is a shortage of fillers Mr. ABC commands us to take that position. Mr. ABC is definitely a superior gene. Now adding to this idea is another perspective, it is the chain of these superior gene that does not stop on 4th dimension, there is somebody above Mr. ABC as well who has access to the 5th dimension and unfortunately we could only imagine 11 of those dimensions and rest still undiscovered. I don't intend to bluntly challenge anybody but what I believe is that this is how things are and there are no limits to the dimensions. So now you see it becomes more like a ladder than a circle, you are into the 3 dimensional world and if you are good at it you progress to next world which gifts you another dimension to explore and once you master that you get another one. Every new world gives you limitless opportunities to explore things. Let me point this trivial thought in a more deserving perspective, imagine all the discoveries that have happened around you with an extra dimension. Reaching speed of light will never be difficult, you can drive your Maruti Suzuki 800 at 30,00,00,000 m/sec. Fourth mandatory law of motion will be famous Albert Einstein's finding i.e. E = mc^2. Mass conversion into energy would never be subsided as a negligible factor and all our equations of Physics will be impacted.

Coming back to the Newton's Law so what exactly was the force I was talking about, I feel that to understand even the presence of nth dimension you will have to end your life (n-1)th dimension. This is so because all that you experience in this life will have no meaning in the next dimension's life cycle, to explain this just imagine this scenario where you were involved in an accident, a road mishap, and you were seriously injured now when you analyse the entire scenario in an extra dimension's world you will be identifying the cause of this accident and correcting it(because you can move in time). This might sound trivial but there are chances that things happen like this in the other world. So the force I was talking about is death, when death happens you enter into the new world of possibilities. 

Having this idea placed well how do we accelerate to world of additional possibilites, how do we move up the ladder of dimensions, how should we respond to this virtual competition?

The answer lies amongst the smallest of beings between us. An electron.

An electron can move up to the orbits coming out of the influence of nucleus, only when it reaches an excited state. So until we develop the excitement and feeling of competition our progress chart becomes morbid.

I see this is as a competition because competition involves excitement and brings out your mettle. Person having right attitude, in my opinion, should have all rights to climb up the ladder. Starting right from electrons to human beings every body strives to get an excited state so as to get out of his routine assignment. For an electron it would mean switching orbits and going from revolving around one orbit, which is quite mundane, to the next orbit. Now staying over there for long again sounds ordinary so it starts again striving for next orbit. So a person should always look for excitement.

I end this post saying that there is only one way to lift your spirit up and that is when you remain excited about everything and respond in right spirit to the oppurtunities.

Want to be famous...yes YOU!!!

Everyone of us wants to become famous and that too without much of hard work. How interesting but watch out for an irony, this is supposed to be the most common dream in the world.

To summarize, 'A person wants to become famous for something which is most common'.

Anyways lets come back to our topic, people have discovered various ways to become famous in which some are weird and others even more weird. One such case is a girl slapping Salman Khan, imagine a girl kissing Salman...nah! very common. She did a stupendous task. Don't know if the girl got equal miledge when compared to how much negative publicity Salman got?

Last Sunday I went to Landmark, primarily a book store, which claims to have a good collection of books. Surprisingly, 2 out of every 12 books was about 'how to become famous!' which again leads to the second irony of the post. A report from UNESCO says there were 206,000 books published in USA, in the year 2005 (courtesy: Wikipedia) which means in United States itself over 34,000 people, in the year 2005, knew the success mantra. To avoid an overact here let me cut down the figure to 20,000.

My point here is that if they knew the recipe and the ingredients why didn't they prepare a pudding for themselves.

So if by writing some vague funda on becoming famous you can increase your TRP then it is true but this would do nothing for others. So then how to become elitist of the elite. No I don't have the answer to this because this is something you should be asking to your self, Isn't it?

Numb Neighbours!!!

Even a student from second grade would tell that anything that expands needs space to expand for instance a balloon occupies space, when inflated, from its surroundings. So then why don't thinkers of modern day world provide any answers as to where is our universe expanding?

Going back to school days, we all were taught the significance of our universe and various theories to explain how it moved. Big Bang was one such theory which outclassed all its competitors. Remembering of big bang, it says that our universe was a tiny dot before it banged because of some uncontrolled reactions (don't want to go in details) and since then the debris produced has been moving apart. Interesting story, indeed!

Everything that we know or don't know about is a part of this universe and they say it has exploded. Exploded where? and Where is it expanding?

Information age has its major disadvantage that it limits thinking of a person. We are still not evolved enough to differentiate between science and art, but we are almost there I can say this because we know they are incomplete without one another.

'The purest form of art is science and vice versa.'

and adding to this fact, both these domain require each other to prove themselves.

Some biggies have wierd explanations for this expansion of universe phenomenon, I will share a couple of them:

1. We have long known the mystery of Black Holes, it is said that black holes contain life form of its own. As we know that even light cannot escape the demoniac, so there is no transfer of mass or energy from a black hole to the outer world. Direct implication of this theory is that we are all living in some kind of a black hole. Jitters flow all across my body though, it might have something to explain.

2. A universe is made of two items, mass and energy. We usually exchange energies in our day to day life with various stars. In addition to energy, all heavy bodies exchange masses as well. It is said that we have many parallel universes existing somewhere, amongst them one is ours. The quality that separates one from the other is that they neither exchange mass nor energy between them.

There has been no scientific explanation attached to all this but artists don't stop thinking just because they need some formulae to justify there thoughts. Being an engineer, I still support the thinking aspect of people but am I asking too much when I ask them to prove there philosophies?

I guess not, so big guys get us some answers. Dumb terms like black holes, dark matter and dark energy will not suffice. We are living here and we need to know every corner of it.

Transformation

4 Vedas, 18 Puranas, 108 Upnishads,

verses of epics written along river-heads.

All for a reason to spread teachings on good,

pave an ace for the upcoming broods.

Man has gone a mile and a half extra,

to teach his offsprings this magical sutra.

Be lovable and adore the humankind,

benefit the needy and never stay behind.

But who has then taught us to affray and crucify,

who has been giving the lessons to lie?

Is there an idol for whom it is justified,

to kill the impeccant, rule the world and be happy when others die?

Let's just give it another outlook,

who taught us depravity and whose power did they took?

Let's seek for the source of their origin,

who has been constantly feeding their engine?

Let us surrogate the powerhouse of this evil,

which could be found in shades of an individual.

If we take care of our self powered devil,

World will prosper and happiness will propel.

Information Age to Informatics Age

As I discussed balance and its importance in one of my previous posts, the best example of an imbalance is the present global recession.

One thing I like the most about this Information Age is that it pours humongous knowledge on things which have already happened in the past, but this doesn't suffice the present day need. Today, man wants to re-invent the inventions of the past to better utilize available resources, whether precarious, he wants to see end to end usage of his inventions. What better example can I quote than our cell phone (Mobile)? Communication is just one trivial aspect in present day mobiles.

This paves a demerit of this Age. Imagine that you invent something for a specific primary purpose and after the invention its secondary usage plays dominant. This means we don't know the usage of something which we are developing whether it is good or bad (the supposed primary purpose is always for good). Only when the inventions do enough badly, we capture the information about it and store it in the repository, in some cases an extra step is exercised to regulate the usage of that stuff.

Now that the plot is prepared, how is it responsible for global recession?

We have always looked at our past in case we require teachings, what if something comes up out of the record books? This is what has happened and has resulted in recession. Albert Edwards, amongst the elite economists in modern day world, made a bearish call about this downturn as early as in 1996. But the then world never noticed it because they were under the dot com boom mindset.

Sub prime mortgage has never been a new word to us; the only thing that was new this time was the form of investment which gave roots to this crisis.

If we dig into the past, there are instances as early as 1819 which give us the same picture. American settlers were occupying the eastern states at a very fast pace which resulted in a price rise of eastern lands so the dwellers started moving towards southern parts. Southern state's soil favours cotton crops and hence cotton became their livelihood. By 1816, cotton market picked its pace and by 1819 America was at its peak of exporting cotton. Cotton importing countries had to pay healthy amounts in lieu of cotton which compelled them to produce cotton on there own lands. Back in America, because of large exporting demands the supply increased but eventually by 1819 it reached its break even when the importers became self sufficient and the supply started overshooting demands. These settlers had got there lands on loans from the local state banks. Local state banks, wanting to cash every opportunity of making profits, distributed loans to any and every person who approached them. In addition they sold the securities that they got from farmers to the Central Banks. After this break even was reached, the prices of cotton came crashing down to an alarming level, observing this the Central Banks wanted to wash there hands from this so they pressurized state banks to return their sum of money which eventually led to local banks asking farmers to clear there debt. Farmers had already invested this money in cotton cultivation and had nothing to give.

Meanwhile the downfall of cotton prices also lowered the land prices. Overall there was a loss of money for the local banks and many of them had to succumb but this crisis was not that big in picture than what has happened during present recession period.

Just that instead of cotton farm loans it is Housing loans and we could not figure the way out of this mess. This is what I call a demerit of Information Age, we are just information gatherers in this age and not the information processors.

Conclusion: There is one positive outcome that we have knowledge with us. So why don't we move on into the next Age wherein we can think of

1. What can be the possible cons of my work?

2. What are the remedies/regulations that need to be formulated before I launch my work in public?

If we can answer both these questions I guess most of the modern day problems would be resolved.