Being on Top of the World

How do you feel when you reach on top of the Mount Everest? You feel like you conquered the world isn’t it. Now consider the following scenarios.

Once you are at the top, you feel excited and tired (at the same time) but you will have the satisfaction of achieving something extra ordinary.

However, if you really look back and see what was more exciting?

1. Being on top of the Mount Everest in freezing cold and all alone at the top.

OR

2. The stiff challenges it (Everest) thrown at you on your way up.

To find out more about this, read more in my blog Arts and Literature / Being on Top of the World

Getting closer to God Particle

Peter Higgs a British physicist predicted the existence of Higgs particle in sixties to explain how matter has mass. His theory suggested that Higgs gives rise to a field through which all other sub atomic particles (fermions) such as quarks, electrons and force carrier particles (bosons) such as photons, gluons, W & Z bosons must pass. When they (particles) interact with the field, the particles experience a drag, the more the drag, the more massive the particle.

The basic idea of all pervading Higgs field (which is carried by Higgs bosons) is an important part of the Standard Model of particles and forces, for it explains the masses of the carriers of the weak force, responsible for beta-decay¹ and for nuclear reactions that fuel the Sun.

Most of the matter (known) in the universe is composed of up quark, down quark and electron (up quark has 2/3 charge while down quark has -1/3 charge). Proton consists of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark while Neutron consists of 2 down quarks and 1 up quark. This is the 1^st family of the fermions in the standard model.

To find out more about this, read more in my blog Particle Physics / Getting closer to God Particle

Escape from the Universe

The universe is destined to end. Before it does, could an advanced civilisation escape via a "wormhole" into a parallel universe? The idea seems like science fiction, but it is consistent with the laws of physics and biology. Here's how to do it ...

The universe is out of control, in a runaway acceleration. Eventually all intelligent life will face the final doom—the big freeze. An advanced civilisation must embark on the ultimate journey: fleeing to a parallel universe.

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President Kalam's mantra for national prosperity

Following is an extract from the Indian President Kalam’s Republic Day speech echoing the same concerns I raised in the blog India in the year 2020

The complete text of President A P J Abdul Kalam's address to the nation on the eve of the country's 56th Republic Day is available in this UR : http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/25prez.htm

To find out more about this, read more in my blog The Land of Vedas / Indian President Kalam’s mantra for national prosperity

India in the year 2020

India's foreign reserve is around $131 (as of Jan-1, 2005) billion dollars. However, what is disturbing is our GDP and Labor force distribution.

GDP¹ (Gross Domestic Product) Distribution.

- 25% is from Agriculture

- 30% is from Industry (of which 19% is manufacturing)
- 45% is from Services & Information Technology

Labor Force: 470 million

Labor Force Distribution

- 60% Agriculture
- 23% Industry
- 17% Services & Information Technology

To find out more about this, read more in my blog The Land of Vedas / India in the year 2020

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Here is something I wrote when I was in College.

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My heart sings a sad song.
It’s the shear waiting
Which makes me driving
Out of my mind
And makes my heart faint.

I remember your tender kisses
The feel of your hands, your caress
But now no sense in dreaming
Without you, my life has no meaning.

To find out more about this, read more in my blog Arts and Literature / No Reply