If you have no plans for this Saturday, party with some timetravellers at the timetravellers convention! I must admit I am a skeptic and even if I can get past the “the MIT guys have found a neat way to fund a big party”, there are so many Physics issues that will make this a …
“We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened. Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make …
Apart from the incessant pacing that I went through for three very long hours between the time Srijith left his hotel and got to the airport in Denver (yeah yeah – i know I am a worrywart, but I couldn’t reach him on his mobile and all the satellite cams of Denver showed a very …
– do an “undo” when I take the wrong turn and end up in an unknown street.– cut one bean and do a click&drag for all the beans to cut according to the same formula.– upload my clothes and shoes to a central location before I travel and download them from wherever I am, when …
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but numbers tell a thousand stories. Thanks to the number of people who get dooced, this post will be intentionally vague. And I will reflect on a slightly off tangent, yet related topic – the joy I find in numbers. There are various reasons why humans have …
All the answers you seek are within you. There are limitations to what human beings can do, but there are no limitations to what we can achieve through the strength of our minds. What makes us different from the rest of the living forms is our intellectual prowess. The answers to the deepest questions of …
What sex is your brain? After several years in engineering and computer science schools and in a career as a Risk Analyst, I was beginning to wonder if my brain had decided to go for a sex change. I had tried to alleviate my fears by taking whatever free brain identity tests I could lay …
Background: Rednova recently publised an article, ‘Can This Black Box See Into the Future’ about a new machine developed by the scientists at Princeton that can predict future events. It relies on two main things : random number generation and the power of the collective human conciousness to ‘influence’ that random number generation. This is …
UN has declared 2005 as the World Year of Physics as “a worldwide celebration of physics and its importance in our everyday lives”. Why 2005? Because its been 100 years since Einstein published his three important papers in one single year. Whatever be the reason, I am glad. I have always loved Physics – it …